Employing South Asian Urdu poetry as a channel for dialogue, this ongoing series of works emulate my countenance with solitude, amativeness, and passion for my ideas of romance from preceding days and privy remembrances. I center this series on the prose and poetry written as lyrics for Pakistani and Indian films. My fascination with South Asian music and films goes back to my infanthood. Most of the poetry in songs, particularly those from the 1950s to 1990s era, were scripted by celebrated Urdu poets. They were either derived for the film scores, or in some cases they were expressly written for the films. My personal pursuit of creativity enthused by South Asian pop culture started in the year of 2010.

 

'Love may be a universal feeling, but culture and language play a crucial role in defining it. Idioms of love have a long history, and within every society there is always more than one discourse. Exploring notions of radical love in South Asia, as a nostalgic artistic viewing of indo-pak cinema ; as a medium for dialogue, this series interrogates the notions of love, longing and belonging,  heartbreak and the survival course of separation within traditional expectations of lifelong relationship in South Asia. From my early childhood; the aesthetic of romantic cinema originating from Bolly-Lolly wood, and from classic ptv (national tv) 's classical dramas painted an explicit fantasy stimulus in my mind to deem the intensity of real love which can be rather contrary to the reality. The works in this series try to blur boundaries between fiction and reality. By appropriating indo-pak cinematic aesthetic for navigating the expectations of idealised love which is entirely opposite to real life scenarios, the works are attempts to redefine love and relationships in south asia through lived experience. 

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