Cinema
Heer Ranjha
Masood Parvez · 1970
Synopsis
Ranjha, the youngest of four brothers, leaves his village because his elder brothers' wives refuse him food and mock him. He arrives in the village of Heer, daughter of a rich country family, who employs him to look after her father's cattle. The two young people fall in love, but Kaido, Heer's jealous uncle, does everything to separate them, and the father forcibly marries his daughter to another man, Saida Khera.
Context
The film takes up the tragedy that Waris Shah put into verse in 1766 and that the Punjab has sung ever since. Ejaz Durrani, who played Ranjha, produced it; Firdous played Heer, and M. Ajmal the uncle Kaido. The music is by Khwaja Khurshid Anwar, who opens the film with a song by Noor Jehan; the Herald counts seven of its ten songs among the great hits of the period. It was released at the same time as an Indian film of the same title.
Who it is for
In Punjabi; a film with songs, which can be approached without knowing the legend, though the legend sheds light on it.
Prizes and reception
A box-office triumph according to Dawn; three Nigar awards for 1970: Punjabi film, direction, music.
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