Qays wa Laila (Arabic: قيس وليلى, lit.
Majnun is the name rendered in most transliterations of the semi-legendary poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah.
Like the film it remade, it features a screenplay co-written by El-Sayed Ziada.
[1] The poet Qays ibn al-Mulawwah (Shoukry Sarhan) falls in love with his cousin Laila (Magda al-Sabahi) and writes love poems to her.
Although the tribal elders forbid him to meet her and she later marries Warid (Omar El-Hariri), Qays remains in love with her.