Umar Marvi

Umar Marvi or Marui (Template:Lang-sd) is a folktale from Sindh, Pakistan about a village girl Marvi Maraich, who resists the overtures of a powerful King and the temptation to live in the palace as a queen, preferring to be in simple rural environment with her own village folk.

The story also appears in Shah Jo Risalo and forms part of seven popular tragic romances from Sindh, Pakistan. The other six tales are Sassui Punhun, Sohni Mehar, Lilan Chanesar, Noori Jam Tamachi, Sorath Rai Diyach and Momal Rano commonly known as the Seven Queens of Sindh, or the Seven heroines (Template:Lang-sd) of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.

In Popular Culture

• Pakistan Television Corporation ran a serial-adaptation called Marvi in 1993. The series depicts the story of Marvi and Umar in a modern setting. Ghazal Siddique played the title-role, while Hassam Qazi played Umer.
• Umar Marvi is a Pakistani film in adapted from this folktale, produced by Syed Hussain Ali Shah Fazlani, directed by Shaikh Hassan and starring Fazlani himself, Nigat Sultana and Noor Muhammad Charlie. Released on March 12, 1956, it was the first ever Sindhi language feature film made in Pakistan.

See also

• Sur Marui
• Umar Marvi (film)
• Sindhi folklore
• Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai

Further reading

• Baloch, N. A.. 1976. Umar Marvi (in Sindhi). Jamshoro: Sindhi Adabi Board.
• Chapter on Marui from the book Tarikh i Tahiri written by the author Mir Tahir Muhammad Nasyani

External links

• "Umer Maruee: A Symbol of Patriotism". MuseIndia, 39, Sept.-Oct. 2011.
• Sur Marvi, by Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai (Sindhi).
• Sur Marvi (translated into English by Elsa Kazi).
• Drama Adapatation of Umar Marvi (Urdu)