[3] In 1992, the play Love Letters by American playwright and novelist A. R. Gurney was adapted to Urdu as Tumhari Amrita and given an Indian context by Javed Siddiqi.

It was performed by veteran actors Shabana Azmi and Farooq Sheikh at the Jennifer Kapoor Festival in Prithvi theatre in February 1992 for the first time.

For one and a half hours, the actors read the letters describing the relationship between two friends Amrita and Zulfikar over a period of 35 years.

For the next 21 years until Farooque Shaikh's death in December 2013, this immensely successful play went on to tour many parts of the world including US, Europe and Pakistan.

[11] While his play Salesman Ramlal was revived in 2009, with a more contemporary version, another classic, Tumhari Amrita, was performed for no less than 21 years until December 2013, when the main actor Farooque Shaikh died.