Waris Shah wrote 250 years ago in a small village has stood the test of time and has proved to be the best creative expression of Punjabi genius. This is also, in a way, a celebration of the point where religious boundaries are blurred,” says Singh. “There is this flute player, who meets Heer and her 60 friends on a river bank and he falls in love with her and so on. Singh also feels that the story of Heer-Ranjha is a kind of reworking of the Radha Krishna myth. Two of these transgressive poets happen to be from that time – Bulleh Shah and Waris Shah,” said Chaar Yaar’s Madan Gopal Singh, who credits the poets for breaking away from perceived norms. “In the 18th century, there was widespread political turmoil in the region. Read more: 250 years of Waris Shah’s Heer: Writers, artistes set to celebrate epic Day one will bring together four musicians of Chaar Yaar: The Faqiri Quartet, and day two will be star-studded with performances by Rabbi Shergill and Jasbir Jassi. The two-day festival will focus on the richness of traditional folk melodies as well as more recent interpretations of the story to an urban audience. In the capital, a music festival will bring the audience closer to the verses of Heer. There has also been a demand for a celebratory Indo-Pak literary event at Shah’s tomb at Malka Hans in Pakistan’s Pakpattan district.
UK’s SOAS South Asia Institute will hold a discussion on the significance of Shah’s work next month, while Panjab University’s Department of Indian Theatre has planned a grand revival of its play Heer this year. To celebrate this, as Hindustan Times had reported earlier, several programmes have been planned across the world. Rather it has proved to be the best creative expression of Punjabi genius,” writes Soofi. “What Waris Shah wrote 250 years ago in a small village has stood the test of time. The 18th century Sufi poet Waris Shah, as imagined by Chughtai. In 1766, he finished composing the tragic story of Heer Sial, poisoned by her family for wanting to marry Dheedo Ranjha against their wishes.
So, why did this stranger from Sandal Bar choose to stay in Malka Hans? No one knows, says Lahore-based poet Mushtaq Soofi in a tribute to Shah in Pakistani newspaper Dawn all we know is that he was a learned man, had paid his homage to the great Sufi saint Baba Farid Shakarganj and was often seen writing. ‘Waris Shah is a resident of Jandiala Sher Khan’, a small village in Sandal Bar, also in Pakistan now. He writes: ‘Waris Shah vasneek Jandialray da’. It was the year 1766, in ancient Malka Hans, a historic town in Punjab (that lies in today’s Pakistan), and Waris Shah was a man presumably in his 40s, living in a room next to a mosque. The story, however, goes like this and is mostly told by Shah in Heer itself. Sayyed Waris Shah, as the 18th century Sufi poet was known, composed the most popular rendition of the epic love story of Heer-Ranjha. Heer, as you might have guessed, is the protagonist from the legend of Heer-Ranjha, a story we have heard in songs, read in books or seen on the silver screen. In 2016, Waris Shah’s Heer completes 250 years.
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