Agha Hashr
Pakistani writer
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contribution to Urdu theatre
- In South Asian arts: Parsi theatre
…playwright of this period is Agha Hashr (1876–1935), a poet-dramatist of flamboyant imagination and superb craftsmanship. Among his famous plays are Sita Banbas, based on an incident from the Ramayana; Bilwa Mangal, a social play on the life of a poet, whose blind passion for a prostitute results in remorse;…
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