IGRMS Habib Utsav - Play Jin Lahore Nahin Vekhya 2.flv

A hindu woman in Pakistan of 1947 not liked by the local goons and they
kill the maulvi.
Our Production is based on This story arose out of an actual
Asgra wajahat's play of the same incident in Lahore which was reported
name. After the partition, in 1947 in the Delhi daily 'Pratap'.
Ratan lal Jhori's mother refuses to I decided bring the two corpses
move out of her house in Lahore. on the stage to unravel the deep
This house has been officially dimensions of fundamentalism. A whole
allotted to Sikander Mirza of violent situation erupts on stage, the
Lahore, and his family. She has no likes of which we are withnessing all
objection whatsoever to a Muslim over the country even today.
family living with her, but on no I have also moved characters
condition will she move out of her and dialogues around to heighten the
own house. Slowly this woman is intensity and profundity of the
come to be loved by everybody and subject. I have used appropriate
is fondly addressed as 'Jagmai' poetry of contemporary Urdu poets to
(universal mother). The day she add to the beauty of the play. These
dies, questions aries about her, last include ghazals by the famous
rites to cremate her, or bury her; Pakistani poet, Nasir kazmi, and
A local maulavi issues a fatwa that Amrita Pritam's heart-rending nazm
she should be cremated as per her rendered in her style.
religion. This decision however is
JIN LAHORE NAHIN VEKHYA WO JANMYA HI NAHIN

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Entertainment

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• Habib Tanvir
• Bhopal
• Manav Sangrahalaya