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'''Boota Singh''' sometimes spelled as '''Buta Singh''', was a [[Sikh]] ex-soldier of the British Army who served at the [[Burma]] front under the command of [[Lord Mountbatten]] during [[World War II]].<ref name="ti">{{cite web |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99apr17/saturday/head6.htm |title=Silver lining in the clouds of Partition |website=TribuneIndia.com |publisher=[[Tribune India]] |date=17 April 1999 |accessdate= 26 July | '''Boota Singh''' sometimes spelled as '''Buta Singh''', was a [[Sikh]] ex-soldier of the British Army who served at the [[Burma]] front under the command of [[Lord Mountbatten]] during [[World War II]].<ref name="ti">{{cite web |url=http://www.tribuneindia.com/1999/99apr17/saturday/head6.htm |title=Silver lining in the clouds of Partition |website=TribuneIndia.com |publisher=[[Tribune India]] |date=17 April 1999 |accessdate= 26 July 2013}}</ref> He is very well known in [[India]] and [[Pakistan]] for his tragic love story with Zainab, a [[Muslim]] girl he rescued during the communal riots in the time of [[partition of India]] in 1947.<ref name="ti"/> Both fell in love and got married. Later, being a Muslim, Zainab is deported and sent to the newly born Pakistan. Boota illegally enters Pakistan and when the girl backed off under the pressure from her family, he commits suicide by jumping before an upcoming train near [[Shahdara Bagh|Shahdara]] station in Pakistan along with his daughter but she survived.<ref name="j">{{cite web |url=http://jang.com.pk/thenews/may2010-weekly/nos-30-05-2010/she.htm |title=Shaheed-e-Muhabbat |website=Jang.com.pk |publisher=Jang |date=30 May 2010 |accessdate=26 July 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140316084209/http://jang.com.pk/thenews/may2010-weekly/nos-30-05-2010/she.htm |archivedate=16 March 2014 }}</ref> | ||
The love story of Singh's life is widely adapted in films and books on both sides of the border. A [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] film [[Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Boota Singh]] (1999) is entirely based on the story.<ref name="ti"/> Ishrat Rahmani wrote a novel, Muhabbat, based on the story. The story also influenced many other films including a 2007 Canadian film [[Partition (2007 film)|Partition]]<ref name="ti"/> and a 2001 Bollywood film [[Gadar: Ek Prem Katha|Gadar]] and the 2004 Bollywood film [[Veer Zaara]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/religious-protests-against-period-film-gadar-put-free-speech-on-the-boil/1/230620.html|title=Religious protests against period film Gadar put free speech on the boil|publisher=India Today}}</ref> | The love story of Singh's life is widely adapted in films and books on both sides of the border. A [[Punjabi language|Punjabi]] film [[Shaheed-e-Mohabbat Boota Singh]] (1999) is entirely based on the story.<ref name="ti"/> Ishrat Rahmani wrote a novel, Muhabbat, based on the story. The story also influenced many other films including a 2007 Canadian film [[Partition (2007 film)|Partition]]<ref name="ti"/> and a 2001 Bollywood film [[Gadar: Ek Prem Katha|Gadar]] and the 2004 Bollywood film [[Veer Zaara]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/religious-protests-against-period-film-gadar-put-free-speech-on-the-boil/1/230620.html|title=Religious protests against period film Gadar put free speech on the boil|publisher=India Today}}</ref> | ||