Pakistani Legend Actors, Actresses, Singers and Models

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Death anniversary of Zahoor Ahmed
Zahoor Ahmed as 'Niaz kabariya' in 'Khuda ki Basti' in 1969. The character became so famous that people, dismissing Zahoor's real name altogether, started calling him Niaz kabaria.
Pakistan has been blessed with many great actors who have churned out roles and plays that have been labelled as cults for future generations.
Zahoor Ahmed was born in 1930s and shot to prominence soon after Partition, gaining respect as an actor through theatre that was funded by a leading banker at the time. Back in the days when there was no TV, theatre provided a formidable rivalry to films, thus actors had to pass the stage-level test if they were to eventually graduate to films. Zahoor excelled in the stage plays of the era, and was part of Mirza Ghalib Bunder Road Par and Nizam Saqqa, the most popular Radio Pakistan plays of that era.
Zahoor Ahmed also had a brief stint in films and his most famous role was that of Waheed Murad's father in Pakistan's first platinum jubilee film, Armaan. His contemporaries also believe that it was Zahoor's love for his country that saw him turn into a dramatist later in his career.
When Lahore became the hub of films in Pakistan, Zahoor Ahmed chose to stay back in Karachi, working in TV dramas and long plays. His presence in Akhara and many others brought them to a higher level but he will always be remembered for playing the title roles of Nizam Saqqa and Nooruddin Zangi in long plays, as well as that of Changez Khan in Aakhri Chattan — roles of historical nature and played exceedingly well by the great thespian.
During his last years, Zahoor Ahmed moved from city to city with his son who serves in the Pakistan Army. He breathed his last on February 1, 2009 in Islamabad, leaving family, fans and friends in shock.

 

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Death anniversary of Veteran actor Khayyam Sarhadi.

His work was his identity and he wore it with dignity.

Son of pre-partition film producer and lyricist Zia Sarhadi, Khayyam Sarhadi acted in a number of popular PTV dramas like Man Chale Ka Sauda, Sooraj Key Saath Saath, Anokha Ladla, Waris and Deep Se Deep Jale.

Since he was educated in England, he could not read Urdu and had to get his dialogues rendered in Roman.
Khayyam Sarhadi was married to a film actress Atiya Sharaf. Later, the couple got divorced and he got married to a TV actress Saiqa. He had four daughters one from Atiya and three from Saiqa, one of his daughters is Zarghuna Khayyam. Sarhadi was a son of a famous Indian film director, producer and writer Zia Sarhadi and his mother was a writer named Zahra Sarhadi. He was the uncle of a model and actress Zhalay Sarhadi.

His father was a progressive person who produced three films, Hum Loag, Footpath and Awaz, before the partition. He also wrote lyrics for films like Lal Haveli, Jugnu and Anokha Pyar.

Khayyam Sarhadi firmly believes that art has to be nurtured on the physical starvation of the body. “Only then can the finer senses develop, mature. One has to taste hunger and poverty first.”
Sarhadi died with a sudden heart attack on 3 February 2011 at the age of 62 in Lahore.

 

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4th Death anniversary of veteran actor Qazi Wajid

 

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Karachi 1987

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Pop star singer Muhammad Ali Sheyehki with top star comedians Lehri and Nirala .

 

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This young boy standing next to Tariq Aziz and Qurban Jilani in this picture dated 1976 is standing to receive Kawasaki motorcycle by answering questions correctly in the auction house. This is none other than Pakistan's Encyclopedia Mr. Aqeel Abbas Jafri.

 

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Karachi 1970 ..

52 Years ago, film stars Waheed Murad, Rozeena, Shabana and Nadeem at the set of film "Chaand Sooraj"( چاند سورج) in Modern Studio Karachi. Film released on 25 December 1970. Film completed in Karachi.

 

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Karachi 1964 ...

At Eastern Studio, on the occaasion Release of film " Millan ", Film actor & Director Rahman speach in a function, other persons on the stage , Eastran studio owner Saeed Haroon, Journalist ilyas Rashidi, Actor Mohammad Ali and a Film trade person Abdul waheed.

 

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Late Moin Akhtar, Umar Sharif, Khalid Nazami, Ahsan_Amrohvi, and Late Naralam.
Beautiful people waiting their turn in the backstage during a stage drama....

 

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Cast of PTV Islamabad center hit sitcom Guest House in 1990's...

 

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Karachi, 1966

West Pakistani singer Mehedi Hasan and East Pakistani singer Ferdousi Rahman.The photo was taken while singing a duet song for a film in a studio in Karachi with the music composer Robin Ghosh.

 

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A memory of 1970, Actress RESHMA arranged a Friendly program in karachi. Group photo of that function, Famous singer Runa Laila, Mrs.Farzana, Nadeem, RESHMA, Journalist Asif Noorani and his Mrs, and Mrs.Salma waheed ( wife of Waheed Murad )

 

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Legend Farooq Qaiser with His Puppet Mr. Bonga Bakheel in 1989..

 

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If the word AKKA BUA or AMMA BI

Still rings a bell in your ear then congratulations you have not forgotten this beautiful artist of the yester years nor you have forgotten her dramas and definitely not her name.

That’s right we r talking about the one and only Begum KHURSHID MIRZA.
Most of us know her through her lovable and memorable old characters that she has played in the old PTV dramas The viewers liked her to the extend that many secretly wished they could have a Akka bua of their own in their family !

She played those roles with so much ease that it looked like those rolls were tailor made for her whereas the fact of the matter is she was an actress of that caliber who knew how to merge in her charachter to make it look so real !
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I am sure some of you might also know that she has worked in Bollywood movies much before partition with her screen name “ RENUKA DEVI” she was a very learned, pretty and smart lady, belonging to an educated family her dad being a lawyer and a strong advocate for women education KHURSHID MIRZA grew into a very Libral atmosphere which didn’t stop her to become an actress on the big screen , She got married in 1934 to a police officer named mr Akbar Mirza who didn’t interfere in her interest and so she continued acting in movies infact most of her famous movies came after her marriage.

She has the privilege of working with some of the top actors of that era from Bombay talkies.

Some names of her films are:-

BHAKTI 1939,

BADI DIDI 1939,

JEWAN PRABHAT 1937,

BHABI 1938,and

NAYA SANSAR 1941.

 

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..Actor/Director/ Producer Ejaz Durrani, Firdous Begum, Riaz Gul and Qamar Ahmed in Paris in 1971..