Urdu SF

An Urdu Brain Transplant Story from the 1930s

On: October 11, 2013

I have been searching for the oldest example of a Science Fiction story in Urdu and recently I came across a novel from the 1930s. Munshi Nadim Sehbai Ferozpuri wrote a detective novel in the 1930s called Naqli Rais (Fraud Aristocrat) with Sci-Fi elements. The premise of the story isContinue Reading

Shani – A Pakistani Movie

By: Muhammad Aurangzeb Ahmad

On: September 17, 2008

In: Movies, SF by Muslims, Urdu SF

With: 4 Comments

In the late 1980s or early 1990s there was a Pakistani movie “Shani” which features an alien being who lands in a Pakistani village. His planet is naturally being destroyed and his people are looking for a refuge. In the end of the movie the alien reveals that he andContinue Reading