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Heer Ranjha is part of the Qissa genre of tragic love stories, along with tales such as Laila Majnu and Sassui Punnhun. Because its plot involves a romance opposed by family members and ends with the two lovers dying, the story is often compared to the Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. In popular culture
Sohni Mahiwal is a tragic love story which inverts the classical motif of Hero and Leander. The heroine Sohni, unhappily married to a man she despises, swims every night across the river using an earthenware pot to keep afloat in the water, to where her beloved Mahiwal herds buffaloes.
It was first published in Urdu in 2004 and later in English in 2011. The book deals with the turning points in intervening lives of two people: a runaway girl named Imama Hashim; and a boy named Salar Sikander with an IQ of more than 150.
It is a modern retelling of the original story, set in Uttar Pradesh, showing the nexus between politicians and criminals. Phillauri, a 2017 Indian film starring Diljit Dosanjh and Anushka Sharma in lead roles , the song Sahibaa portrays their love in comparison with Mirza Sahiban.
Ghazal poets frequently use this story as a simile or reference point to portray their love as similarly obsessive and pure. Urdu ghazal is a form of lyrical poetry that originated in the Urdu language during the Mughal Empire. It consists of rhyming couplets, with each line sharing the same meter. Themes Love ('ishq)
Yūsuf marries Zulayk̲h̲a. whose beauty and sight are restored to her; her love, however, has passed from love for Yūsuf to the love of the divine beauty, so that she flees from him and they are equal in their love.
Humsafar (Urdu: هم سفر) is a 2008 romantic novel written by Farhat Ishtiaq. The novel was first published in 7 parts in Khawateen Digest monthly from July 2007 to January 2008. It was later published as a complete novel by Ilm-o-Irfan Publishers.
His masnavi Mu'amlat-e-Ishq (The Stages of Love) is one of the greatest known love poems in Urdu literature.
The story revolves around an arrogant, class conscious and narcissistic Falak Sher Afgan an only child to very rich parents. She fell in love with Salman after seeing him in her friends wedding ceremony, Falak tries every way to get in touch with Salman.
Urdu literature has included the short story form for slightly more than one hundred years. During this period it has passed through some major phases including the early romantic period, progressive writings, modernist writings, and the current phase.