Yahudi Ki Ladki (The Jew's Daughter) is a historical Urdu play by Agha Hashar Kashmiri, on the theme of persecution of Jews by the Romans. It was first published in 1913. The play became his best known work, and a classic in Parsi-Urdu theatre. It was made into an Urdu film in 1963 to commemorate its 50th anniversary.
The play was adapted from W.T. Moncrieff's play, The Jewess, and uses mixtures of Urdu, khari boli and even braj bhasha at places. In 1981, theatre director Nadira Babbar, started her theatre group Ekjute (Together), with the production of Yahudi Ki Ladki, which revived the Parsi theatre style, and is considered one of its finest.
Adaptations
The play was adapted several times, in the silent films and the early talkies era. Notably the play was made into a film Yahudi Ki Ladki (1933) by New Theatres Ltd. Calcutta, directed by Premankur Atorthy and starring K. L. Saigal. In 1958, it was adapted again by noted director, Bimal Roy, as Yahudi starring Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari and Sohrab Modi.