Read this great story by Phanishwar Nath Renu. Its amazing how Renu depicts his characters and their mental makeup in all his stories. In Laal Paan ki Begum, Renu brings out the feelings of a typical house wife - her jealousies for all neighbourhood ladies, her getting angry upon slight upset in her plans for an outing and its repercussions on her poor husband the kids. Birjoo ki Maa is preparing to go to Balrampur to see naach in her bail-gaadi. Her altercations with Jungi ki putahoo (daughter-in law of Jungi), scolding of her kids and her husband later makes her character very lively.
Also read another great story by Renu, 'Maare Gaye Gulfaam'. Though I had already seen the screen adoptation of this story as Raj Kapoor's Teesri Kasam, I feel reading the story is greater fun. Hiraman, the bail-gaadi driver develops an infatuation for Hirabai, the nautanki waali bai. The side characters are also a joy to read. Like the helper Lahsanwa who washes his Gamcchi in the same water in which Hirabai's saari had been washed because after washing Hirabai's saari, the dirty water beomes 'atar-gulaab'. Renu's mastery at its best.
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