Sorath Rai Diyach ( sd, سورٺ راءِ ڏياچ) is one of the historical romantic tales from

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. The story also appears in Shah Jo Risalo and forms part of seven popular tragic romances from

. The other six tales are '' Umar Marvi'', '' Sassui Punnhun'', '' Sohni Mehar'', '' Lilan Chanesar'', '' Noori Jam Tamachi'' and ''

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'' commonly known as

the Seven Queens of Sindh Seven Queens (Sindhi:ست سورميون, pronunciation (sat-a soor-myoon); meaning ''Seven heroic women'') is a name commonly referred to the seven female characters that appear in the poetry of the Sindhi poet Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai in his bo ...

, or the Seven heroines of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai.

Story

Sorath was the queen of King Rai Diyach alias of Raja Dhaj, Ror Kumar of Girnar, Junagadh now in

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who sacrificed herself for the sake of her love for husband. Diyach gave his head to wandering minstrel and followed him to the world of dead. Highly pleased with the songs of minstrel, Bijal, Diyach offered him to ask for anything he liked to have. As the intrigues of fate would have it, his son asked for his head. The kind and generous king gave it. Now the song resounded in Sorath's head. She bid farewell to life and to the pain of separation from him. Sur Sorath ( Sindhi: سر سورٺ) is one of 30 Surs(Chapters) of Shah Jo Risalo in that touching points of the well-known tale of Rai Diyach and Sorath are given. The contents of this Sur, section by section, are described below: # Bijal comes to Rai Diyach and asks for his head-he is offered different kinds of precious gifts but he is obstinate in his demand. # Bijal sings for six nights successively-he is offered more gifts. # The effects of Bijal's music. # Rai Diyach cuts off his head and gives it to Bijal-mourning of members of his house-death of Sorath.

In popular culture

''Rai Daich'', an adaptation of the folk tale, is a 1958 Indian Sindhi film directed by J.B. Lulla and produced by Atu Lalwani. It was written by Ram Panjwani and starred Lalwani, Shanti Ramchandani and Bhudo Advani. The film's music, for which it is known, was composed by Bulo C. Rani. Panjwani also wrote a play in Sindhi titled ''Bijal Rai Diyach''. ''Sati Sorath'', an Indian Gujarati-language drama film based on the folktale released in 1978 starring Kamini Bhatia and Arvind Joshi.

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