Piro Preman is a play about Piro, the first woman poet to write in Punjabi. Placed in the 19th Century, she was born in low caste family in a village of Punjab. Nothing much is known about her parents and her early life. This play seeks to reconstruct her life and times, The work is based on some actual well known happenings in her life i.e. her being a poet, her living with Iiahi Bakhsh, a General of Maharaja Ranjeet Singh, her relationship with Sant Gulab Das, a leading poet and Saint of 19th Century Punjab and the founder of Gulabdasi Sect, the dividion in the Gulabdasi Sect due to her relationship, and her death at Gulab Das’s Dera. The other events in her life have been reconstructed and are fictional. The play uses four original couplets of Piro while others have been penned by the play-wright.

The Cast: Thaira Imam, Sohrab Khan, Malik Aslam, Naseem Abbas, Imran-ul-Haq, Furqan Majeed, Ziafat Arfat, Farhat Rehman, Shujaat Haider, Nasir Naz, Zafar Ullah, Iqbal Naqvi, Yaqoob, Waseem Looqa, Amjad Khan.

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Written by: Dr. Swarajbir

Directed by: Kewal Dhalival