Why Pakistani Love ballads have a tragic end?

[sid426]

Heer Ranjha
Mirza Sahiba
Sassi Punnu
Sohni Mahiwal

Whenever I hear Heer,my eyes get moist.I can't understand chaste punjabi but it has that 'effect'.

Anybody?

 

[Dubious]

Heer Ranjha
Mirza Sahiba
Sassi Punnu
Sohni Mahiwal

Whenever I hear Heer,my eyes get moist.I can't understand chaste punjabi but it has that 'effect'.

Anybody?

• Titus Andronicus (1591–1592)
• Romeo and Juliet (1595)
• Julius Caesar (1599)
• Hamlet (1599–1601)
• Troilus and Cressida (1602)
• Othello (1603–1604)
• King Lear (1605–1606)
• Timon of Athens (1605–1606)
• Macbeth (1606)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
• Coriolanus (1608)
• Cymbeline (1610–1611) was listed in the First Folio as a tragedy, but it is now usually included among Shakespeare's late romances.

Shakespearean tragedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yet Shakespeare was good no?

 

[sid426]

• Titus Andronicus (1591–1592)
• Romeo and Juliet (1595)
• Julius Caesar (1599)
• Hamlet (1599–1601)
• Troilus and Cressida (1602)
• Othello (1603–1604)
• King Lear (1605–1606)
• Timon of Athens (1605–1606)
• Macbeth (1606)
• Antony and Cleopatra (1606)
• Coriolanus (1608)
• Cymbeline (1610–1611) was listed in the First Folio as a tragedy, but it is now usually included among Shakespeare's late romances.

Shakespearean tragedy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yet Shakespeare was good no?

Yeah,he was damn good.Here I am primarily talking about Pakistani folklore.

 

[Dubious]

Yeah,he was damn good.Here I am primarily talking about Pakistani folklore.

Genre ...that genre attracts many...Plus those are folktales some say it happened some say the told version is exaggerated... I am not one who is into literature

 

[sid426]

Genre ...that genre attracts many...Plus those are folktales some say it happened some say the told version is exaggerated... I am not one who is into literature

No issues mate! I am pretty much interested in literaure.Lets see if I am able to find someone here who knows a thing or two about Pakistani folktales.Keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[Dubious]

No issues mate! I am pretty much interested in literaure.Lets see if I am able to find someone here who knows a thing or two about Pakistani folktales.Keeping my fingers crossed.

There are a few... @Armstrong @Aeronaut might know a thing or two if not they may guide you!

 

[sid426]

There are a few... @Armstrong @Aeronaut might know a thing or two if not they may guide you!

Great..

 

[Leader]

because love that ends in tragedy is more of a story to tell that love which ends with kids ?

 

[xyxmt]

because love that ends in tragedy is more of a story to tell that love which ends with kids ?

thats tragic too

 

[Rajput_Pakistani]

Heer Ranjha
Mirza Sahiba
Sassi Punnu
Sohni Mahiwal

Whenever I hear Heer,my eyes get moist.I can't understand chaste punjabi but it has that 'effect'.

Anybody?

Whats your thought? Have you read the folk tales?

 

[Armstrong]

No issues mate! I am pretty much interested in literaure.Lets see if I am able to find someone here who knows a thing or two about Pakistani folktales.Keeping my fingers crossed.

Google the stories of Umar-Marvi, Sassi-Punnu, Sohni-Mahiwal, Hani-Mureed, Heer-Ranjha, Mirza Sahiban, Saiful Maluk etc.

Some of these stories are preserved as caricatures or sculptures (with description) in the Lok Virsa museum in Islamabad !

 

[sid426]

Google the stories of Umar-Marvi, Sassi-Punnu, Sohni-Mahiwal, Hani-Mureed, Heer-Ranjha, Mirza Sahiban, Saiful Maluk etc.

Some of these stories are preserved as caricatures or sculptures (with description) in the Lok Virsa museum in Islamabad !

I have a,question regarding Heer Ranjha.Some 'jhangus' in India consider that Heer and Ranjha,were Hindu Jatts.In Waris Shah's Heer Ranjha,they are muslims. What is the truth?

 

[Armstrong]

I have a,question regarding Heer Ranjha.Some 'jhangus' in India consider that Heer and Ranjha,were Hindu Jatts.In Waris Shah's Heer Ranjha,they are muslims. What is the truth?

I dunno; perhaps @LoveIcon @Chak Bamu or @Aeronaut would be able to answer that !

 

[sid426]

I dunno; perhaps @LoveIcon @Chak Bamu or @Aeronaut would be able to answer that !

Heer is an extremely beautiful woman, born into a wealthy Jat family of the Sayyal clan in Jhang, Punjab. Ranjha (whose first name is Dheedo; Ranjha is the surname), also a Jat of the Ranjha clan, is the youngest of four brothers and lives in the village 'Takht Hazara' by the river Chenab. Being his father's favorite son, unlike his brothers who had to toil in the lands, he led a life of ease playing the flute ('Wanjhli'/'Bansuri'). After a quarrel with his brothers over land, Ranjha leaves home. In Waris Shah's version of the epic, it is said that Ranjha left his home because his brothers' wives refused to give him food. Eventually he arrives in Heer's village and falls in love with her. Heer offers Ranjha a job as caretaker of her father's cattle. She becomes mesmerised by the way Ranjha plays his flute and eventually falls in love with him. They meet each other secretly for many years until they are caught by Heer's jealous uncle, Kaido, and her parents Chuchak and Malki. Heer is forced by her family and the local priest or 'Pandat' to marry another man called Sadashiv Khera.

Ranjha is heartbroken. He wanders the countryside alone, until eventually he meets a 'jogi' (ascetic). After meeting Baba Gorakhnath, the founder of the "Kanphata" (pierced ear) sect of jogis at 'Tilla Jogian' (the 'Hill of Ascetics', located 50 miles north of the historic town of Bhera, Sargodha District, Punjab), Ranjha becomes a jogi himself, piercing his ears and renouncing the material world. Reciting the name of the Lord, "Alakh Niranjan", he wanders all over Punjab, eventually finding the village where Heer now lives.

The two return to Heer's village, where Heer's parents agree to their marriage. However, on the wedding day, Kaido poisons her food so that the wedding will not take place. Hearing this news, Ranjha rushes to aid Heer, but is too late, as she has already eaten the poison and died. Brokenhearted once again, Ranjha takes the poisoned Laddu (sweet) which Heer has eaten and dies by her side.

Heer and Ranjha are buried in Heer's hometown, Jhang. Lovers and others often pay visits to their mausoleum.

 

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