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Sunday, November 15th, 2009 by admin
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Mumtaz Shanti

Mumtaz Shanti was a very popular movie star in the 40′s and her film Kismet (1943) is regarded as one of the biggest hits of Hindi cinema. Mumtaz started her career in the early thirties in Lahore, by working in a local theatre. She got a break in Lahore’s Mangti and was lured to Bombay. ...

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Saturday, November 14th, 2009 by admin
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Bulo C. Rani

Composer and singer in Hindi films called Bulo Chandiram Ramchandani, born in Hyderabad (Sind), now Pakistan. Joined Ranjit Studio (1939) as assistant to Khemchand Prakash, making his debut as a singer in Prakash’s compositions for Chaturbhuj Doshi’s Mehmaan (1942) with the popular number Rootha pyar mein. Later assisted and sang for Gyan Dutt (Shankar Parvati, ...

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Saturday, November 14th, 2009 by admin
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Amjad Bobby

The life of a film musician is like that of the movies he composes songs for — it has happy moments, others that see him struggle to survive and the end which comes suddenly and takes a talented soul from the world. Amjad Bobby’s life was no different. He began his career in 1969, composed ...

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Saturday, November 14th, 2009 by admin
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M. Ashraf

The sudden and tragic demise of M. Ashraf on February 4, 2007 brought an end to an era of great music compositions. The 65-year-old musician entertained music lovers with his matchless tunes for 45 years and died of cardiac arrest, leaving behind countless fans to mourn the loss. From Sangdil, Nadeem’s first musical hit in ...

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Saturday, November 14th, 2009 by admin
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Mohammad Ali

Born in 1935 at Rohtak in India into a religious family, Ali bhai, as he was affectionately referred to, and his family migrated to Pakistan soon after Partition. After temporarily settling in Multan, the family made Hyderabad their permanent home. Ali started his career from Radio Pakistan Hyderabad in the late ‘50s and learned to ...

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Friday, November 13th, 2009 by admin
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Neeli

Neeli, one of the most popular actresses of the Pakistan film industry, was born in Hyderabad. Her real name is Neelofar. She went to Saint Mary’s Convent where she completed her F.A. She liked sports and was never interested in her studies. Her father was a Sindhi feudal lord. The director/producer Yunus Malik, one of ...

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Friday, November 13th, 2009 by admin
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W.Z. Ahmed

W.Z. Ahmed, 91, one of the most outstanding film directors of the subcontinent, passed away at a local hospital on April 15, 2007. He was suffering from an infection of the lung. He was laid to rest at the Bagh-i-Rehmat graveyard on Monday afternoon. After coming up with a series of films in only five ...

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 by admin
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Shaikh Mukhtar

He was Bollywood‘s first Hunk – one who would have put today‘s WWF hulks to shame. Exceptionally tall and frighteningly hefty, he was endowed with an immense physique. His face was a roadmap of crisscrossing muscles. A sharp jaw line added to the dimensions of his rock-hard face. Hardly ‘star‘ material compared to the Hrithiks ...

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Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 by admin
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Zia Sarhady

Zia was a Hindi-Urdu director and scenarist. He was Peshawar (now Pakistan) born like Prithviraj, Raj Kapoor, and Dilip Kumar. He started his film career in 1933, assisting non-Urdu speaking directors and artistes with East India Film at Calcutta. Soon he moved to Sagar pictures where a chance meeting with Mehboob Khan, the future movie ...

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Sunday, November 8th, 2009 by admin
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Nasreen

Real name Zarina Agha, Nasreen was the daughter of actress Anwari and actor/music-director Rafique Ghaznavi, and mother of singing-star Salma Agha. She was cast as the leading lady in two pre-partition films Shahjehan (1946) and Ek Rooz (1947). She migrated to Pakistan after partition and married a wealthy carpet dealer in Karachi. One of her ...

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