Originally posted by: Nabni_blr31
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Basically Heer Ranjha,Soni Mahiwaal are the desi versions of Romeo and Juliet. I used to think they all were fictional characters. Never knew that Heer and Ranjha were real personalities. Thanks for the info.🤗
romeo and juliet is not really a love story. 🤣
when I was in school, my english teacher asked us this qustion -- "is romeo and juliet a love story?"
we were sufficiently confused and said yes. she then asked us why -- we gave the outline of what we had studied and how they fell in love and died.
again she asked "did romeo love juliet?" . now we were wondering why she is asking us this question and we said yes. she again asked us why we think so and we went through what we had studied.
she then threw the googly -- "so if romeo loved juliet, who was rosalind?"
we were like "who???????????" then, she told us the exact page number (somewhere in act 1) and made us read out the passage. and suffice to say, we were all stupefied and confused.
romeo first proposes to rosalind but she turns him down. so he is depressed and the same night, he falls in love with juliet.
then my english teacher asked -- "was romeo in love with juliet or was romeo in love with the idea of being in love?"
this was us:

our teenage brains were just exploding. we did not have answer to that question.
then one boy asked -- this question won't appear in the exam right? 🤣 🤣
bwahahah... my teacher spared us but she did give us a lot to think about. a class I still remember today.
in this drama, ehsaan is a bit like romeo -- very much in the love with the idea of being in love. basically all the modern day fellas desperate for a girlfriend so they can show off to others how cool they are. not because they actually want a relationship or is interested in that specific woman.