The poster of film Manto
Dastan..Story
The Persian style of Dastan (stories)
evolved in the 16th century. This form
of the art was revived in 2005.
Dasangoi has references in the print
titled Dastan-e-Amir Hamza, a 19th-
century text containing 46 volumes of
the stories of adventures of Amir
Hamza.
The long story…The Arabs had a long
tradition of narrating oral poetry. Even
in India the practice of memorizing the
Vedas had always existed, the remnants
of that culture are visible across India
even now. The telling and retelling of
the epics existing in the world provide
Occidental folklorists several lifetimes'
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worth of research material.