hair-e-Awam Habib Jalib

This documentary is about the life and works of people’s poet Habib Jalib and will reveal variant facets of his poetry from the political upheavals in Ayub’s era to the Benazir’s democratic rule and Musharraf’s ousting. In this documentary, Jalib’s most popular poems will be selected and the personality’s in SOT will provide the audience an insight the personal life of Habib Jalib, the committed figure with the ideology which is obvious in poems, for which he paid heavily. This documentary will explore the events in his life, from being a poet to become a

poet of resistance, from being a politician to become an activist of the left. He spent most of his life in Jail and the rest on the streets. He was always at the forefront of the struggle for democracy. His many poems like Dastoor, Is Sherhr-e-Kharabi Mein, Pakistan ka matlab kiya etc is remembered by a lot of people. He was also popular in elites. This documentary will cover all the aspects of his poetry and major events in his life..