JIS LAHORE NAI DEKHYA O JAMYAI NAI

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Writer : Asghar Wajahat

Director : Abhijeet Choudhary

Cast : Dhanashree Heblikar & Prem Gowda

JIS LAHORE NAI DEKHYA O JAMYAI NAI Story :

Partition made them aliens in their own land. Those who were part and parcel of their life were now after that life. A large number of families played hide and seek with ‘life and death’. Partition proved ‘catastrophic’ to our own motherland. It was August 14th, 1947 when British India was officially sliced into two nations triggering the largest displacement of the human population in the history of the world wherein about 14.5 million people crossed borders that were not even known to them.
Memories of partition know that lines were not drawn on pieces of paper or land but on the hearts of those people who until then were living in harmony and their first collective war against freedom from British Imperialism had no boundaries.
Asghar Wajahat's 'JIS LAHORE NAI DEKHYA', was first performed under the direction of Habib Tanvir in 1989, who subsequently took the play to Karachi, Lahore, Sydney, New York, and Dubai. 'JIS LAHORE NAI DEKHYA', O JAMYAI NAI', is based on the story of an old Punjabi Hindu woman who gets left behind in Lahore, after the Partition of India, and then refuses to leave. But in the end, Bonds of Humanity are bonds of love and affection not only to one another but to the soil where one has lived and grown up. This love and affection do not understand the borders. It is infinite and absolute. The Hindustan and Pakistan partition was the most severe emergency people witnessed.
Ratan ki Maa is the central character of this play whose heart does not build the courage to leave her own Lahore even after the partition. Sayeed Mirza Saab’s family has been allotted her house, shocked and disturbed, Mirza tries to get rid of her. An emotional journey filled with humanity created through great relationships par caste and religion.

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