ABSTRACT
Three giants of Urdu fiction, or rather of the Urdu short story, were also born in the Saadat Hasan Manto (born Samrala East Punjab, 1912 – died Lahore 1955), Krishan Chander (born Bharatpur, 1914 – died Mumbai 1977) and Rajinder Singh Bedi (born Sialkot 1915 – died Mumbai 1984) were also celebrated story and script writers of the Bombay film industry. They represented the three main communities of Punjab who were united in their art by the Urdu language and script while, ironically, had they wanted to write in Punjabi they would have done it through the Punjabi written in the Urdu, Devanagri and Gurmukhi scripts respectively.
