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Atiya Sharaf
The movie business with its meretricious appeal lures an onslaught of hopefuls, seeking instant fame, glamour and stardom. So one wonders what keeps someone in the biz, after they have been unanimously denied stardom and been relegated to secondary, matronly roles. This particular un-sex appealing route was the fate of character actress Atiya Sharaf from ...
Asad Jaffrey
It was in the early 1950’s that a handsome Youngman met the busy bee director, Hassan Tariq, who was working on his all-time great movie, Neend. In the very first assessment, the top director found his face expressive. He seemed somebody out of the short stories of 1940’s. An unshaven face, dreamy eyes, and a ...
Ilyas Kashmiri
Ilyas Kashmiri, a strongly built, tall and handsome personalitywas one of the best artistes of his age. He proved his mettle not only as hero but also as an anti-hero along with cameo rules in most of the famous films of those days. In whatever film he featured, in a positive or a negative role, ...
Kumar
With brilliant character actors of the level of Talish, Alauddin, Zeenat Begum, Kumar and Bibbo, Pakistan were fast coming up as a cinematic entity in the 1950s. After 1970s, the situation deteriorated, because most of these artistes had either died or become too old to act. One of those stalwarts, who made their mark very ...
Bibbo
Amongst the most graceful character actresses of the Indo-Pak film industry, Bibbo must rank as one of the topmost ones. At her peak, she was a stunning heroine, and the only film actress of the region whose dresses and shoes were studded with diamonds and expensive stones and she flaunted her wealth sometimes in an ...
Fatin Hamama (1931— )
Fatin Hamama discovered the cinema when she was young, living with her family in the eastern Delta, where her father worked as a primary school secretary. Her father took her to see her first film in the provincial town of Mansura. The actress Asya was there for the opening of her new film. Young Fatin ...
Yusef Wahbi (1897-1982)
Born the son of a pasha, Yusef Wahbi was expected to become an engineer like his father. But a passion for acting drove him along an unforeseen path. To his father’s astonishment and rage, Yusef joined the circus. In so doing he became a person whose testimony was inadmissible in court, and a disgrace to ...
Amina Rizq (1910 – )
Amina Rizq’s acting career has spanned seven decades. In 1924, she and her aunt Amina Muhammad, also an actress, left Tanta, their provincial hometown. Rizq settled in Cairo, joined the Ramses Troupe and has since continued her acting career uninterrupted. Her first appearance in film was in the silent feature Suad al-Ghagariya (Suad the Gypsy, ...
Togo Mizrahi (1905 – 1986)
Togo Mizrahi, with a Ph.D in economics, and fluent in several languages, was an immensely productive figure in Egypt’s early cinema. In sixteen years he made thirty-two films, as director, author, scriptwriter, set designer, and sometimes actor. Between 1930 and 1946 he worked with every new aspect of film, making social dramas, musicals, and historical ...
Himaliyawala
It has been said before that most of the early film artists were already fully out of the burner in India, and they literally put what they learnt in Bombay to better use in the Pakistani silver screen to illuminate it with a special spark. In this context, one such artiste who made it in ...
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Anuradha (1960):
Cast: Balraj Sahni, Leela Naidu, Abhi Bhattacharya
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Music: Pa...
Zinda Laash (1967):
In a day and age where even the mere mention of Lollywood elicits shudders of contempt, it is a ...
Nigar Awards - 1967: Best Film: Chakori
Best Punjabi Film: Dil da Jaani
Best Director: Ehtesham - Chakori
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