Hua Kuch Yun, a love story highlighting political scene

LAHORE: Talented students of Alhamra performed wonderfully well in a love story highlighting various political and social developments that took place in the subcontinent during the early 20th century till the early 21st century.

The play “Hua Kuch Yun” (as it happened) is written by renowned actor Sajid Hassan, directed by Dawar Mehmood and produced by Aneeqa Khan. The play was performed at Alhamra Hall, The Mall. Every act of the performers was cheered by the packed house having presence of every age of people.

The play revolves around two main characters including Quratulain and Raja Mehboob who first met in their childhood at the Jallianwala Bagh massacre in which over 1800 Indians died during the British Raj.

Quratulain and Raja are adopted as parents of both the children died in the massacre of 1919. As the time moves, so does their love story. In their teen, both Quratulain and Raja enter Ali Garh University where both become involved in student politics, the young lady joins Congress and the guy joins the Muslim League.

Year after year passed and it came 1946 when they met again at a time when partition of united India is announced by the British Raj. Incidentally, they both met at a railway station at a time when Raja is about to leave India and Quratulain, still a staunch supporter of Congress, is not ready to accompany her lover to a new country that would be called Pakistan. In the entire play, the writer beautifully described all important historical happenings including the Pak-India war of 1965, birth of Bangladesh in 1971, hanging of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto as well as murder of Indra Gandhi. The writer also pointed out how the ground realities forced both lovers to stick to their political views and sacrifice their love for each other.

Finally, after remaining stick to their stubborn views for more than eight decades both tied the knot during early 2000, when both were in their 80s. Mohsin Ijaz, an organiser, told The News that they had organized the play in Peshawar, Faisalabad and Multan and now after Lahore they would stage it in Islamabad in February. He said by March-April this year, they were planning to stage it in Karachi as well.