Book Review: Roshni Ki Udan [Jasoosi Duniya issue 309] by Ibne Safi B.A.

जासूसी दुनिया अंक 309- रोशनी की उड़ान [लेखक- इब्ने सफ़ी बी.ए.]

सप्ताहांत की शुरुआत हो चुकी है. पिछले हफ्ते कई कारणों से कोई भी किताब नहीं पढ़ पाया था, इसलिए इस हफ्ते पहले से ही विचार कर लिया था कि कम से कम दो किताबें पढ़नी ही हैं. इसीलिए अपने इस प्रायोजन की पूर्ति के लिए मैं आज कार्यालय से आने के बाद सबसे पहले लग गया एक किताब पढ़ने. कोई तय नहीं था की कौन से लेखक को पढ़ना है, परंतु जैसे ही मैंने आज एक किताब पढ़ने का विचार किया अतएव ही सबसे पहले मश्तिष्क में नाम उभरा सर्वप्रिय लेखक इब्ने सफ़ी बी.ए. का. तो मैंने उठाई जासूसी दुनिया का 309वां अंक ‘रोशनी की उड़ान’ और पढ़ गया एक ही बैठक में.

सर्वप्रथम जब से यह चर्चा सामने आई है कि शायद जासूसी दुनिया में इब्ने सफ़ी जी के नाम से प्रकाशित कुछ नॉवेल उन्होने नहीं छद्म लेखकों ने लिखे थे, तब से हमेशा उसे पढ़ते वक्त मन में एक शंका बनी रहती है कि क्या इसे सफ़ी जी ने लिखा है या किसी छद्म लेखक ने. बहरहाल किसी ने भी लिखा हो, इस किताब ने मेरा सरहनीय मनोरंजन किया.

कहानी की शुरुवात होती ही एक रहस्यमयी महिला मिसेज मालिक से [जो की अपने अजीबो गरीब आचरण से इस उपन्यास में एक विशेष स्थान प्राप्त करती हैं], जिनके फ्लैट में एक दिन दो लोग किसी शख्स के बारे मैं पूछ ताछ करने आते हैं, इसमे वो उन्हे धमकी तथा प्रताड़ित करने का प्रयास करते हैं मगर मिसेज मालिक एक अंजान शख्स जिसका नाम वह ढंप बताता है की मदद से उन अराजक लोगों से बच जाती हैं. इधर राजेश सर शंभू दयाल की आज्ञा से एक विदेशी जासूस मिस्टर ब्राउन [जिसके बारे में उसे अधिक जानकारी नहीं है] की मदद एक अंजान आदमी को खोजने में कर रहा है, जिसके बारे मैं उसे कुछ भी नहीं मालूम. इस खोज में राजेश को एक रहस्यमयी हवेली का पता चलता है तो की खाली ही महसूस होती है परंतु उसे यह आभास होता है कि इस हवेली का संबंध इन सब मामलों से जुड़ा हुआ है. इसी बीच दो विदेशी तथा अंजान गुटों में टकराव होता है जीने पीछे राजेश लग जाता है.

नवेल का लेखन सराहनीय है, तथा कहानी पेज दर पेज नए गुत्थी से हमारा सामना कराती है. जैसे जैसे हम आगे बढ़ते हैं हमें यह भी ज्ञात होता है कि जो कहानी एक रहस्यमय शख्स की तलाश से शुरू होती है उसका संबंध कुछ देशों के राजनयिक मसलों से जुड़ा हुआ है तथा जिसका असर भारत वर्ष की सुरक्षा पर भी पद सकता है. इसी दौरान कहानी में राजेश के सदृश्य [उसी के समान दिखने वाले] का भी अवतरण होता है जो की अपने कार्यों से राजेश को भी संकट में डालने का प्रयास करता है. कथानक में कई बार ऐसी घटनाएँ होती हैं जो राजेश के साथ साथ श्री शंभू तथा राजेश की सहयोगी मेरिया को भी कई बार संकट मे डालती हैं. वैसे इस नॉवेल में हमारा सामना एक किसी धातु के बने अजीब रोशनी छोड़ने वाले हथियार से भी होगा, तथा हमेशा की तरह राजेश अपनी अजीबो गरीब हरकतों से हमारा मनोरंजन तो करेगा ही.

कौन था वह रहस्यमयी शख्स जिसकी तलाश राजेश को थी? क्या कोई इतना विशेष हो सकता है कि उसके कारण कई देशों के राजनयिक सम्बन्धों पर असर पड़ सके? कौन थी मिसेज मालिक? राजेश क्या इन सब गुत्थियों को सुलझा पाया? यह सब पढ़ कर आनंद आया.

वैसे एक बात कहूँगा, कई बार जासूसी दुनिया ने सफ़ी जी की नॉवेल को ऐसे नाम दिये हैं जिनका मूल कहानी से कोई लेना देना नहीं होता, कम से कम मुझे तो यह उपन्यास पढ़ कर ऐसा ही लगा.

उपन्यास मनोरंजक और सराहनीय है. आशा करता हूँ आप सब में जिन लोगों ने इस नॉवेल को पढ़ा है वो भी अपने विचार हम सब से साझा करेंगे.

वैसे एक निवेदन यह भी है कि यदि किसी के पास इसका कवर पेज अच्छी क्वालिटी में उपलब्ध हो तो कृपया करके मुझे स्कैन करके प्रदान करने की कृपा करें, मैं उनका आभारी रहूँगा. मेरे पास उपलब्ध किताब के कवर की हालत जरा नाजुक है.

लेखन में कोई त्रुटि हो तो उसके लिए क्षमा प्रार्थी हूँ.

Details about the book-

Name- Roshni Ki Udan
Publisher- Nakhat Publication, Allahabad
Series- Jasoosi Duniya
Issue no.- 309
Writer- Ibne Safi B.A [Original- Urdu], Prem Prakash [Translator- Hindi]
Book language- Hindi

My rating: 4/5

My book Review- 'Maut Ki Awaj' by Akram Ilahabadi

मौत की आवाज- अकरम इलाहाबादी 

पिछले हफ्ते इब्ने सफ़ी बी.ए. जी की कृति ‘मूंछ मूँडने वाले’ पढ़ी थी, न जाने क्यों मगर मुझे उसे पढ़ने पर वह संतुष्टि प्राप्त नहीं हुई जो सामान्यतः सफ़ी जी की किताबें पढ़ कर प्राप्त होती हैं. शायद इसीलिए इस हफ्ते मैंने किसी अन्य लेखक की रचना पढ़ने का विचार किया और अपने कलेक्शन से मशहूर लेखक अकरम इलाहाबादी द्वारा लिखित उपन्यास ‘मौत की आवाज’ जो की जासूसी मासिक ‘जासूसी पंजा’ के तीसवें अंक में प्रकाशित हुआ था ढूंढ निकाला. हालांकि मैंने अकरम जी की लेखनी के शाहकर कुछ ही उपन्यास पढे हैं, चूंकि वो उर्दू लेखक थे और अब तक उनके केवल कुछ ही उपन्यास मुझे हिन्दी में मिल पाये हैं; परंतु यह कहना उचित होगा उनकी लेखनी भी काफी संतुलित तथा रोमांचकारी थी तथा इन कुछ उपन्यासों को पढ़ कर यह समझ सका हूँ कि वह भी पाठक को अपनी कहानी से अंत तक बांधे रखने की महारत रखते थे.

चलिये बात करते हैं ‘जासूसी पंजा’ मासिक के तीसवें अंक की, जिसमें प्रकाशित हुई थी अकरम इलाहाबादी द्वारा लिखित उपन्यास ‘मौत की आवाज’. किताब की शुरुआत होती है अत्यंत घनघोर बारिश की रात से जब शहर अकबरपुर के एक सम्मानित व्यक्ति सर अकबर की रहस्यमय ढंग से मृत्यु हो जाती है जो कि अपने पीछे एक नौजवान पुत्र शहजाद और पुत्री गजाला को छोड़ जाते हैं, सुप्रीटेंडेंट खान तथा सार्जेंट बाले को तफतीश के दौरान यह मालूम होता है कि अकबर जी मृत्यु के 1 हफ्ते पहले से कुछ अजीब अजीब आवाजें सुन रहे थे जो उन्हे कहती थी ‘तुम मर जाओगे’ तथा उनका बर्ताव भी बड़ा अजीबोगरीब हो चला था. प्रारम्भिक खोज बीन में पुलिस को कोई संदेहास्पद संदेह तो न हुआ परंतु उन्हे पूछताछ से यह जरूर आभास हुआ कि मृत्यु के पीछे लोगों को रूहानी ताकतों, शैतानों के होने का शक है. तफतीश के दौरान ही उन्हे सर अकबर कि वसीयत तथा अपने पुत्र को संबोधित एक पत्र भी प्राप्त होता है जिसमें वह अपने पुत्र को यह बताते हैं कि उनकी एक नाजायज पत्नी तथा बेटा है तथा वह पत्र के द्वारा अपने पुत्र से यह दरख्वास्त भी करते हैं कि वह अपनी सौतेली माँ तथा भाई को खोजे तथा उन्हे अपने साथ लाये.

पुलिस के जाने के बाद उसी रात अकबर जी के पुत्र शहजाद को भी उसी प्रकार कि अजीब आवाज सुनाई देती है जो उसे भी कहती है कि ‘तुम मर जाओगे’, इस घटना से भयभीत शहजाद और गजाला अपनी मौसी के साथ वह हवेली छोड़ के जाने का निर्णय लेते हैं मगर तभी वहाँ दो अजनबी आते हैं जो उन्हे यह समझाते हैं कि वे उनके पिता के पीर शागिर्द थे तथा उनके होते हुए कोई उनका कुछ नहीं बिगाड़ पाएगा.

परंतु अगले ही दिन शहजाद पर जान लेवा हमला होता है तथा वे दोनों अजनबी भी हवेली के पीछे बेहोश अवस्था में पाये जाते हैं. अत्यंत सोच विचार के बाद अन्य लोग भी सहमत होने लगते हैं कि उस हवेली में किसी शैतान का वास है जो कि सर अकबर के वंश का विनाश करके ही मानेगा.

क्या खान और बाले इस गुत्थी को सुलझा पाएंगे? क्या सच मुच हवेली में किसी शैतान का साया था? कौन थे वे दो अजनबी? सर अकबर के नाजायज बीवी तथा बेटे का क्या रहस्य था? इस उपन्यास में एक एक गुत्थी धीरे धीरे खुलती है जो कि हमें अंत तक इस कहानी से बांधे रहती है.

इस उपन्यास को पढ़ने पर हमें कई तथ्य भी प्राप्त होते हैं. जैसे कि यह आवश्यक नहीं कि कोई व्यक्ति हमें पहली नजर में जैसा प्रतीत हो, वह असलियत में वैसा ही हो. या फिर धन के लालच में एक औरत अपने पति के खिलाफ भी साजिश रच सकती है. तथा अगर हम प्रयास करें तो हर अकल्पनीय घटना के पीछे का कारण भी पता लगाया जा सकता है.

168 पेज का यह विशेषांक मुझे काफी आनंदित लगा, तथा अकरम जी का लेखन सराहनीय है.

और हाँ एक और बात, हिन्दी में पढ़ने के बावजूद भी इसमें उर्दू शब्दों का अत्यधिक प्रयोग है तथा इतने दिनों बाद पढ़ने पर मुझे गर्व हो रहा है कि मैं अभी भी काफी उर्दू शब्दों का अर्थ समझ पाता हूँ.    

आशा करता हूँ आप में जी जिन लोगो ने इस उपन्यास का वाचन किया है वह भी अपने विचार जरूर साझा करेंगे.  

     

My Rating: 4/5

My Book Review: 'Bhayanak Daldal' by Aarif Marharvi

In my journey of searching old hard to find Hindi books and novels till now I have got to know many publications and series which are now stopped and very little known to people now a day. At the peak of its time Hindi writing used to present many diversified options to readers to enjoy. At one side we were presented with many socially themed novels written by amazing writers such as Gulshan Nand,a Gurudutt, Raj Vansh etc. then on the other side we used to get good mystery, thriller stories written by Ibne Safi [Originally in Urdu], Ved Prakash Kamboj, Om Prakash Sharma. At that time Pulp fictionhad its own big fan following. I've also reallized at that time there were many monthly magazines who used to published detective novels/stories on mothly basis, some ofthe monthly magazines which are known to me are Jasoosi Duniya, Jasoosi Fanda, Jasoosi Panja, Guptchar etc.
I short there were lots of options for Hindi reader which in my opinion we lag these days.

Now onto this book.


A few days ago i was going through my old books collection and was searching for any mystery book to read. While going through my collection i found this novel titled 'Bhayanak Daldal' written by Aarif Marhavi for Jasoosi Panja series of Star publications, Delhi. 
The one thing which i experienced from this book is that don't go after the book by its cover (As i found here that the book cover had no relation with the story).
The novel follows the adventure of an Extra ordinarry detective / Secret service officer Kaisar Hayat Nikhattu a.k.a Marshal Q. 
The story starts with the murder of Mr. Shamsher Singh a well respected and known man of the city under Unusual circumstances while he was receiving protection from the Secret Service department. The murder was more unusual as it was done through a blast in Mr. shamsher's room without anyone entering in the room around that time. The blast had resulted in taking away the head of the victim, making it tough for the police and Secret service to identify the identity of the victim.. 
The case was under Civil police jurisdiction, still a Private Detective Kaisar Hayat Nikhattu enteres the murder scene in an different getup and fake identity of higher departmental officer and tries to solve the mystery behind this murderer. Looking at the crime scene as well as various circumstances he deducts that the murder was done by someone close to Mr. shamsher. Before He or Police could find anything else victim's foreigner wife Shirle fled the scene after murdering a police officer and breaking the heavy security. She also informs the police commissioner about the true identity of Kaisar stating that he was not someone he was claiming to be. But before the civil police could do any thing Kaisar was able to get away from the Police but after coming out he finds himself in a lot of trouble with a vehicle following him and trying to kill him. He fights them and was able to catch one of the people trying to hurt him. He brings that person to the secret headquarter of Secret service.
In another place a member of the secret service named Deepak has been caught by some mysterious criminals/ Gangs who use various high tech technologies to find out about the position and information about the other members of Secret service from Deepak, who under the influence of some kind of hypnotism gives up all the information. Although he couldn't give any information about the chief of the secret service 'Marshal Q' as he didn't have much information about him.
Based on this information the Gang finds out about the secret service's headquarter and also plans to kidnap all the members of Secret Service. But Secret Service chief Marshal Q gets a snif of their planning and orders all the workers/ agents of the Secret service to change their base and place to be safer from a probable kidnapping. He also starts planning his own action against the gang. 
Marshal Q informs his remaining colleagues in the secret service that he'll be taking help of Kaisar in this case. He does that as no one knew that kasiar and Marshal Q are same person and not the two different people.
In this journey Kaisar comes across a beautiful lady who offers to go on a date on their first meeting and meet him at the time of dinner, although the woman was in different getup kaisar recognized that woman as Shirley, wife of pressumely killed victim Shamsher Singh . Understanding her probable plan to kill him as well as his colleagues he plans to catch her and supporters red handed in the act. He sets up a plan by inviting all the colleagues from Secret service at hotel Air france at the set time of his date with the woman, and also changes his get up again and switches the place with a Violin player. 
Suspecting that the violin player is Kaisar, Shirley and her men kidnap him with other officers and take them to thier base where by help of his intelligence and work Kaisar a.k.a. Marshal Q succeeds in not only freeing his colleagues but ends a terrorist group in the country as well as solves the mystery of Shamsher singh's mystery.

By the way at the end writer throws up a twist that was not expected, but to find that twist you'll have to read this book.

I would say the book started quite well with the interesting plot of murder of a person by a small bomb taking away his head, when no clarity was available who came in his room, but during the writing or i would say book the writer went away from this plot in an attempt to give it some what James Bond feel and didn't concentrate much on the murder solving aspect. 
I guess when you have a target of giving 1-2 book each month to the publisher, gou tend to be repetitive and not develop the story to its full capacity. still a decent one. This novel came out in the series Jasoosi Fand and this is the 140th book of this series.


Still You can read it for a nostalgia feel.


My Rating: 2.5 /5

My Book Review: Smokewater [Jasoosi Dunya Book 61] by Ibne Safi

Hello Everyone,

One more Ibne Safi Book review which I had already posted at somewhere else...

I hope everyone is well and healthy. In place of giving the title of my post ‘My Book Review’ maybe I should title them ‘My Book Information’ as I am not really a book critic with fancy words and I only give you all a basic intro cum information about the book and try to state my opinion about it in some simple words. But lets leave it for later…

Today again I’ve finished one Ibne Safi Book. As you might already know few days ago I’ve read Poisoned Arrow by Ibne safi which was not only interesting but later also appeared as the first book in the series of Doctor Dread adventures. So after cooling off for few days I started the second book of this series titled Smokewater which is translated from original title ‘Pani ka dhuwan’.

The book starts with a beautiful young girl Shakila coming to Meet Colonel Faridi and asked his help as she was concerned for her Grandfather whose health  deteriorates mysteriously after seeing a boat near the doc. Faridi agrees to take up the case and goes with her to her house to see the Girl’s grandfather, a famous businessman Mr. Fayyaz Ahmed. He also visits the Island and Doc area where they had seen that mysterious boat. After going their Faridi sees an unusual Monkey and goes after him in a cave. Later-on after coming out of the cave he tells the girl that he won’t be able to take up her case and she should go to her house, and instruct Captain Hameed to drop the girl at her house.

Captain Hameed also was in a little doubt with the girl’s intension as her family was infamous for playing practical jokes on people and starts to investigate her. During this investigation he comes to know that the girl has one other house in a not so good area of the city and no one knows what she does there. He confronts her and visits that house with her thinking that she is hiding something from him and Colonel Faridi. At that time few people arrive at the house and kidnap the girl Shakila with Hameed, later on they find out that they had arrived with the plan to kidnap Faridi too but couldn’t execute that as he was not there.

On another place Faridi is conducting in his own Investigation. When he comes to know about the disappearance of Hameed and the girl he goes after various goons very hard and was able to find both Hameed and Shakila. There he gets an idea that all this case was not a simple one and he was mixed with something notoriously long game.

Faridi and Hameed continue with their quest and in this path Faridi sends Hameed and Inspector Rekha as undercover to the party of Mr. Ray Chandra Shekhar, another prominent business Man. The party was very exclusive and attended by very few prominent people. In this party Faridi and Hameed uncover many facts and also solve the mystery behind Mr. Fayyaz’s health.

Oh! And In the same party Dr. Dread makes an appearance for the first time [Although with another name and appearance].

What was the reason behind Mr. Fayyaz’s unusual health? Who was Shakila? Who was Dread and what was a notorious criminal like him doing here? Why was the Party of Mr. Ray Chandra Shekhar was so important in all this context and what really Faridi and Hameed discover there?

To know these all, read this book which I believe you won’t regret it. As I’ve already said I am a very big lover of Ibne Safi’s writing as not only his story telling is concise but he also winds up different stories and plot lines in a way they I never get bored and also each story keeps me interested. His character development is always interesting and mind-blowing as only in few words he creates an image of the character which you are forced to follow. And last but not the least what I’ve always loved about Ibne Safi’s book is him not using Sex in any of his book to sell. Yes he shows that Hameed is a big flirt and likes to Enjoy the company of women, but he never crosses the line giving some un-useful steamy sex in between the story to keep readers interested, he always throws some new mystery points in the book and sticks to his story idea which anyway keeps us glued to the book. This series is developing up quite good and I hope Mr. Safi takes the story and thrills one more notch up in the upcoming novels.

Ok! So I can’t wait to move to the third book. But I guess I should wait for few days to save myself getting addicted to Ibne Safi’s book, as they are very rarely available in Non-Urdu Language.

What do you think about this book? Share your thoughts and opinions with me.

Title- Smokewater [English title]

Original Title- Pani ka Dhuwan

Writer- Ibne Safi

Original Language- Urdu

Publisher- Blaft publication

My Rating- 4/5

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My Book Review: Poisoned Arrow [Jasoosi Dunya Book 60] by Ibne Safi

Hello All,

Welcome to my new blog Anand Vaanii which i have started specially for sharing my thoughts and reviews of the Books I read or the Movies and TV shows i stumble upon in these days. I love to watch movies and TV shows and thanks to my mother's genes I also read many books. Although on time to time basis I've shared some of these at my other blogs with small review but i didn't do it regularly for which my mother recommended as I run a specific blog for Comics and books download why don't I start an exclusive blog where I would share my reviews, thoughts and opinion about the things i love.

Mind you I am not a Critic, and you won't find many fancy words in my writing, as I'll try to give a little intro and my thoughts on these things in my easy wordings.

So come an hope along with me in this new journey.

My 1st Post is the review of the Book 'Poisoned Arrow' which is translated from my beloved Ibne Safi's book 'Zahreeley Teer'. I had already written about it at my another blog, but as i've started this blog exclusively for reviews I though I should include this one too as i had written the review only few days ago and this book definitely deserves a place her. So here it goes... 

Just read book no. 60 of Ibne Safi's Jasoosi Dunya series titled Poisoned Arrow which is translated from original title Zahreeley Teer. Although very few books of Ibne Safi are available in Hindi or English this book was translated and published by Blaft publication with 3 other books of Ibne Safi.

The book starts with Captain Hameed meeting a guy at a hotel pleading with him to save his life which he believed was in a grave danger, Hameed doesn't give any thoughts to this till the person dies a little after by Poisonous arrow which vanishing mysteriously with all cloths of the guy. In addition to this the face of the guy gets swollen to the level at which he becomes unrecognisable to anyone.

At second place Colonel Faridi is investigating a gang who uses Red Rose signal to run its criminal business when he also comes across a dead body who also got killed by poisoned arrow which again vanishes mysteriously with his clothes and again whose body gets swollen to unrecognizable level.

Colonel Faridi and Captain Hameed start to investigate these suspicious murder with also following up the activities of two separate gangs who Faridi believes were fighting a turf war.

In between they also comes across various mysterious people some of who
m end up being killed by the same method of poisoned arrows.

Faridi deduces that this method could be used by an International ruthless Killer 'Doctor Dread', Who doesn't appear in this novel but I belive will be a major antagonist to Faridi in later published novels.

At last the duo were able to solve few mysteries unraveled during this novel although Hameed gets nearly killed during this mystery.

I am a big lover of Ibne Safi Novels. He opens up various plots and stories during the book but keeps us captivated and doesn't us you get bored with the storyline. I've always loves his concise writing which keeps the story intact and doesn't moves from its main goal ever. Although what i liked a lot that although the book could be a part of bigger plot line but Mr. Safi doesn't leave us hanging dry and gives us some closure at the end of the book.

I am eager to start the next book 'Smokewater' translated from Dhuwan in this series and to find what Mr. Safi has in store for this series.

Book title- Poisoned Arrow [English]

Original Title- Zahreeley Teer [Urdu, Hindi]

Writer- Ibne Safi

Genre- Crime, Thriller

Original language- Urdu

Publisher- Blaft publiction

My Rating- 4/5

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