Heer Ranjha (1970 film)

For other uses, see Heer Ranjha (disambiguation).


Heer Ranjha

DVD cover
Directed by Masood Pervez
Produced by Ejaz Durrani
Masood Pervez
Written by Jaffar Arsh
Starring Firdous
Ejaz
Munawar Zarif
Music by Khawaja Khurshid Anwar
Cinematography Masood-ur-Rehman
Release dates
19 June 1970
Country Pakistan
Language Punjabi

Heer Ranjha (Gurmukhi: ਹੀਰ ਰਾਂਝਾ; Shahmukhi & Urdu: ہیر رانجھا) is a Pakistani Punjabi film released in 1970, based on the classical story of Heer Ranjha by Waris Shah.[1]

Film Story

The film revolves around Heer (Firdous), a girl born into a wealthy family, and Ranjha (Ejaz Durrani) the youngest of four brothers, whose journey from his own village takes him to the village where Heer lives after the wives of his brothers refuse him food and mock him, here he meets and falls in love with Heer after she offers him work tending her family's cattle.

However her jealous uncle Kaido has other plans and will stop at nothing to make sure their marriage does not happen.

When Heer is subsequently forced by her father to marry another man, Saida Khera, she broken-heartedly enters a shrine. Ranjha, reciting the name of "Allah", eventually finds her and they are reunited. Their happiness does not last long, as Ranjha is arrested by the local ruler, although he is soon freed and permitted to marry Heer.

On their wedding day, however, Heer's jealous uncle Kaido poisons her, Ranjha after hearing the calls of Heer's soul screaming his name, comes to realize that her uncle Kaido has killed her. In the film's climax, Ranjha kills Kaido with his own walking stick and then collapses and dies, meeting Heer in the afterlife.

Super-hit songs from this film

References

  1. , film Heer Ranjha (1970) on Complete Index To World Film website, Retrieved 21 October 2015
  2. , Soundtracks of film Heer Ranjha (1970) on IMDb website, Retrieved 21 October 2015

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