The Indian actor also said that he's happy about Modi's Lahore visit and cricket is only a match, not war
KARACHI: When the first Indian astronaut went into space, the then prime minister of India asked him about how India looked from up there. The astronaut replied, ‘Saare jahan se achha Hindustan hamara’. So the first piece of poetry read out in space was Allama Iqbal’s.
This was said by Indian actor Raza Murad while speaking to journalists at an event organised by the Pakistan Film and TV Journalists Association in his honour at the Karachi Press Club on Monday.
Mr Murad said he was “dumbfounded” and “overwhelmed” by the welcome he had received in Pakistan, especially in Karachi. He said Karachi was the city of labourers, industrialists and of spirited (dill waalay) people. He said he had just been to a TV show hosted by Dr Aamir Liquat Husain and was pleasantly surprised to know that the host knew more about his life and career than his wife did. He said on another television programme, he took part in a segment where replying correctly to each question put to him would increase the dowry that was being collected for a bride-to-be. He called itkhidmat-i-khalq (serving humanity).
Mr Murad said when the first Indian astronaut Rakesh Sharma went into space then prime minister of India Indira Gandhi asked him that how India looked from up there, to which the astronaut said, ‘Saare jahan se achha Hindustan hamara’. He remarked that the first piece of poetry read out in space was of Iqbal’s.
He himself recited quite a few poems on the occasion to express his gratitude, beginning with a Sahir Ludhyanvi poem ‘Main to kuchh bhi nahin hun’.
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