Chakiwara Mein Visaal: A Character Study

Abstract:

Muhammad Khalid Akhtar is a great novelist. The fascinating thing in his novels that captivates the reader is the human characters and their colourfulness. Muhammad Khalid Akhtar has portrayed the characters in his novels in such a sympathetic way that the reader gets into the depths of the study. Muhammad Khalid Akhtar has presented the eternal friendship of the main characters in the novel “Chakiwara Mein Wasal” in terms of humour, while the sub-characters have also left subtle jokes. Overall, Muhammad Khalid Akhtar has written the novel “Thanks to the unique and heartwarming characters in Chakiwara Vasal, the tradition of character-writing in Urdu literature has been revived.

Keywords:

Slow humour, foreign language, assemblyman, Western studies, subtle satire, form of contradiction, joy and expansion

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