Tuesday 11 July 2017

Urdu Novels

Urdu Novels

Reading Urdu novels online or download Urdu novels in PDF format is very interesting activity on internet which is very famous in subcontinent countries, this time lot of online resources and websites are live to provide huge collection of Urdu novels and urdusoftbooks is one of them.


Historical Background of Urdu Novels

Story listening is extremely beautiful memorable part of childhood. This starts from grandmother’s stories (Nani, Dadi ki Khaniyan) and later on it turns into real life events. Novels represents the circumstances of described societies and their people. Urdu novel is a long, imaginary literary work which describes regular human experiences.

The main purpose of novels is that they are written to provide entertainment to their readers. Great literary work of writers in field of Urdu novels explain the ups and downs of life for producing moral values and guidance of coming young generations. In past many Urdu novel writers were used complex wording style in their novels but now trend has been changed and now easy to understand writing style is become popular.

Art of Urdu Novels


Before writing a novel, an author observe the whole society and effective elements of environment very deeply and chose the attentional topic to write his/her story, actually novel writer wants to draw a big picture with his/her pen. Novels are crystal clear picture of actual human life. A novel writer develops the real life emotions and feelings in form of characters and words.

When we talk about novels, it has sequential and global history of about two thousand years and lot of unfold stories are available to read and explore. Urdu novels are one of the most favorite entertainment of indo-Pak culture. Good characteristics in the Urdu novel is the consistency of the story plot, characters and setting which should keep a reader engaged with it. Good novels are rich descriptive and make a reader fully involved in what is going on in the story. It has a completely plot and resolution that most of the time miff the reader to a very large extent.

Urdu speaking people in all around the world are very likely read Urdu novels. Especially Pakistani novel writers are much famous in this field, people like to read their novels, and there are very iconic names in history of Urdu novels writing like Fatima Surayya Bajia, Ashfaq Ahmed, Bano Qudsia, Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi, Mohiuddin Nawab, Intisar Ahmed, Mirza Adeeb, Ismat Chughtai, Abdul Hameed (A Hameed), Aleem-ul-Haq Haqi , Ishtiaq Ahmed and Tahir Javed Mughal.

21st Century Additions

As well as new writers are also continue the tradition of Urdu novels writing with their honesty and determination in 21st Century, which is very positive sign for our traditional cultural development. There are very popular names for nowadays Urdu novels writing, exists like, Umera Ahmed, Nimra Ahmed, Hashim Nadeem, Farhat Ishtiaq, Sumaira Malik, Iqra Sagheer Ahmed, Maha Malik, Sumaira Hameed, Nighat Abdullah and Nighat Seema. Now days due to busy life schedules printed books reading practice becomes old fashion, in current internet scenario people likes read online Urdu novels.

Readers Point of View

Novels are a good source of entertainment. Novels are long stories of fictitious characters and events of real life.  Urdu language has a huge contribution in this category. Urdu Novels has a great importance in Urdu literature and in history of Urdu language. The Urdu literature (Urdu Adab) is well known for master piece Urdu novels it has produced. Famous Urdu novels are; “Jangloos”, “Mirat-ul- Aroos”, “Umrao Jaan”, “Raja Gindh” etc.

Urdu novels are mainly focused on problems and issues of rural and urban social life problems. The topics and style have been changed with the passage of time. For example, pre partition Urdu novels mostly focus on urban life issues. Urdu Novels, during or just after partition focus on migration from India, problems during migration and settlement issues after that. However, later on, Urdu novels are mainly on romance, history, problems of young generation and social and political issues.

Many Urdu dramas have chosen Urdu novels as a story. Some examples are “Jangloos”, “Lahasil”, “Pul Sirat”, “Marvi” etc. Many digests have produced very historical and known Urdu novels, both by male and female writers, Peer Kamil by Umaira Ahmad, Jannat K Pattay and Namal by Nimra Ahmed, Devta by Mohiddin Nawab, Udas Naslein by Abdullah Hussian, Shaheen by Naseem Hijazi , Piya Rang Kala by Baba Muhammad Yahya Khan. Urdu literature will always be thankful to Urdu novels for contribution as Urdu Novel not only provided entertainment to Novel readers but also provided stories for TV/Radio dramas and for theater.

Categories of Urdu Novels

Short Urdu Novels

Short Urdu novels are based on limited content, in these novels writer covers only general and important aspects of the story and drop the unnecessary details about story characters and their life routines. Writing a good story, especially a short story, with an interesting turn at the end needs the author to lead the readers to one conclusion about the short story, and then take them in a completely different and direful direction. One of the best ways to do this is to adopt a style called the "unreliable explainer."

This means that the writer focus on one of the main characters of the story to weave a tale that seems to be going in single direction. By the end of the short story, this unreliable explainer ends up taking the tale in totally different side. This type of novels mostly written for monthly digests and magazines like, aanchal, khawateen, shuaa, suspense, jasoosi, and sarguzasht digest etc.

Long Urdu Novels

This type of novels covers detailed view of the story in which writer deeply express the character’s life aspects and their effects on other’s life. In long Urdu novels writer maintain the sequence of events from start to end very precisely. Normally this type of novels sustain positions for long time like, Ali Pur ka Ali, Jannat k Pattay, Namal etc. Another factor is writer’s personal life schedules, which affects the length of novels.

Serial Urdu Novels

Serial novels are consist on multiple parts, each part printed as separate book. In Serial Urdu novels, all parts are linked with each other to explain the writer’s vision of story initiative. Actually, serial stories cover multiple different events of individual characters, which are changed time to time in every new part of the novel. There are some best examples of serial Urdu novels are Devta Novel by Mohiuddin Nawab and Devi novel by Tahir Javed Mughal.

List of Famous Urdu Novels

03: Mushaf
07: Namal
09: Yaaram

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