Plays
His most noted Partition play, 'Jin 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. The play has also been performed in several regional languages, a version of it has also been directed by theatre director Dinesh Thakur, and now veteran Bollywood director Rajkumar Santoshi plans to make a film on it
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