Sohni, trapped in a marriage to a cruel man, looks across the river to the cave where Mahiwal waits. She takes the baked clay pot ( gharha ), uses it as a float, and swims across the raging Chenab.
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Surprisingly, the Persian film industry (Iran) produced a version of Sohni Mahiwal in the 70s, calling it Shirin va Farhad (confusingly, as that's a different legend) but the plot aligns with Sohni. Sohni, trapped in a marriage to a cruel