Naveen Expresses Gratitude to Gulzar, Bharatbala Ganapathy for Featuring Haldhar Nag in Virtual Bharat Short Film

Bhubaneswar: Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today thanked renowned lyricist Gulzar and documentary film maker Bharatbala Ganapathy for featuring fabulously talented people’s poet from Odisha – Haldhar Nag in Virtual Bharat series of short stories.

Bharatbala has produced a short film on Padma Shri award-winning poet Haldhar Nag under his new project Virtual Bharat. Featuring narration by legendary poet-lyricist Gulzar, the film follows the incredible story of the Sambalpuri poet.

The Chief Minister expressed the short film project as “a fitting tribute to the gifted Koshali language poet and his inspirational journey”.
The works and life of the Kosli poet from Sambalpur has been narrated by Gulzar.

Thank #Gulzar Saab & docu film maker @bharatbala for featuring fabulously talented people’s poet from #Odisha-Haldhar Nag in Virtual Bharat series of short stories, a fitting tribute to the gifted Koshali language poet and his inspirational journeyhttps://t.co/SaoqmSRx92

— Naveen Patnaik (@Naveen_Odisha) September 28, 2019

The narration begins with “I am writing a letter to you Haldhar. Son of the soil of Sambalpur, this Adivasi poet. His language is Kosli.”
“When this poet steps on the earth of his village, it feels like he is walking across the globe and when he speaks to himself, it feels as if he were speaking to every individual living on this globe,” Gulzar says.