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Razia Butt (Urdu: رضیہ بٹ) was an Urdu novelist and playwright from Pakistan. One of the famous popular fiction writer of the 1960s and 1970s, she is often compared with English writer Barbara Cartland due to her popularity among the household readers.
Some of her works have been adapted into television serials and films, including Bano.
Background
Razia Niaz was born in Wazirabad on 19 May 1924. She spent most of her childhood in Peshawar.
Career
She first appeared in a literary journal around 1940 when she was in her teens. She later developed her first published story into a novel, Naila. Butt also wrote radio plays. Films such as Naila, Saiqa and television serials such as Saiqa and Dastaan are based on her novels.
Married in 1946, Razia Butt resumed writing in 1950s after a break of some years. She wrote 51 novels and 350 short stories.
Butt wrote an autobiography, Bichhray Lamhe.
Death
Razia Butt died in Lahore on 4 October 2012 after a protracted illness.
Bibliography
= Novels
=Aadhi Kahani (Lit: Half a story)
Aag (Lit: Fire)
Aaina (Lit: Mirror)
Aneela
Bano (adapted as TV drama Dastan)
Beena
Chahat
Darling
Faslay (Lit: Distances)
Mein kon hon (Lit: Who am I?)
Naila
Najia
Nasoor
Noreena
Reeta
Roop
Sabeen
Saiqa (novel)
Wehshi
Samina
Sawaneh
Shabbo
Zindgi (Lit: Life)
Amma (Mother) (adapted as TV drama written by Ahmed Naveed)
Mehru
Zari
= Others
=Bichhray Lamhe (autobiography)
Dramatisation of works
= Television
=Amma (mother) dramatized by drama writer Ahmed Naveed.PTV
Bano as Dastaan – Hum TV 2010
Naila
Noerena (PTV 1995)
Saiqa – Hum TV – 2009
Wehshi (HUM TV) 2022
= Films
=Naila (1965)
Saiqa (1968)
Anila (1969)
Noreen (1970)
Mohabbat (1972)
Khalish (1972)
Payasa (1973)
Mohabbat ho to aisi (1989)
Gulabo (2008)
Awards
1969 - Nigar Award for Best Scriptwriter of Saiqa.
2012 - Hum Honorary Most Challenging Subject Award for Dastaan
References
External links
Razia Butt on IMDb
Kata Kunci Pencarian:
- Razia Butt
- Dastaan (2010 TV series)
- Razia (name)
- Bano (novel)
- Samira Fazal
- Saiqa (TV series)
- Wehshi (TV series)
- Wazirabad
- Wehshi
- Banu (name)
