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Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Mohsen Makhmalbaf

Born: Mohsen Makhmalbaf, May 29, 1957 (Tehran, Iran). Directing style: Controversial visual poet of Iranian New Wave; autobiographical and childhood themes; chronicles the history of Iran state and its people; often works with family members. Profile: With its repressive political environment, Iran may seem an unlikely spot for a film renaissance, but that is just ...

. Producers & Directors

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Sangeeta

Sangeeta was the most startling discovery of the 1970s, as the director of Society Girl (1976). Sangeeta and her family belong to Karachi. When she began her career, she had been introduced by Rehman, in Milan (1964), a film made in Bangladesh. After that, she got such a welcome that films literally rained on her. ...

. Actors & Actresses . Producers & Directors

Saturday, November 7th, 2009 by admin
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Zurain

Zurain (real name Zulqarnain) was famous character artiste of late 50s and early 60s. He started his career in 1954, as a drama artist for Radio Pakistan (Rawalpindi). The same year he achieved recognition as an artist of considerable merit. Two years later, he stepped before the studio lights as Zurain and stood out even ...

. Actors & Actresses

Friday, October 16th, 2009 by admin
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Khurshid Anwar

The cultural capital of Pakistan, Lahore has contributed much to the flowering of cinematic arts, and the melodic culture of the Sub-continent. It has groomed a large number of film-makers, actors-actresses and melodists, whose invaluable contributions to cinema, before and after the partition of the Sub-continent, will forever remain enshrined in the cultural history of ...

. Music Directors

Friday, October 16th, 2009 by admin
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A. Hameed

The hallmark of the musicians of early period in our cinema is their adaptability to all situations and all sorts of songs in the film. In this context, one must talk of one very gifted music director, A. Hameed. From a classic sixties music of Saheli to the modern-day rendition of club songs in Hasan ...

. Music Directors

Saturday, October 10th, 2009 by admin
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Dilip Kumar (b. 1922)

Dilip Kumar was one of the three top stars of the 1950s and 1960s and is currently one of the most respected seniors in the Hindi film industry. Born in Peshawar (now Pakistan) as Yusuf Khan to a family of 12 children, Kumar emerged from humble origins. While one account states that his family moved ...

. Actors & Actresses

Saturday, October 10th, 2009 by admin
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Mohammed Rafi (1924-80)

One of the most versatile playback singers of Hindi cinema, Mohammed Rafi had a rich and trained voice laced with a purity that was moving. Rafi was born in Kotla Sultan Singh village and trained under musicians Khan Abdul Waheed Khan, Jeevanlal Matto, and Ghulam Ali Khan. He arrived in Bombay in 1944 and got ...

. Playback Singers

Monday, September 28th, 2009 by admin
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Waheed Murad

Born to a successful film distributor/producer, Nisar Murad, on October 2, 1938 in Karachi, and educated at the Marie Calaco School, Waheed graduated in arts from S.M. Arts College in Karachi and then obtained a Master’s degree in English Literature from the Karachi University. He produced a couple of films — Insan Badalta Hai and ...

. Actors & Actresses . Producers & Directors

Monday, September 28th, 2009 by admin
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Raagni

Raagni, one of the most charming film actresses of the 1940s who silently passed away on February 27, 2007, had contributed greatly to the silver screen with her inspiring beauty and mature histrionics. She was popularly known in film circles as Aahoo Chasham and as a heroine, she left a lasting impression on the minds ...

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Monday, September 28th, 2009 by admin
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Nisar Bazmi

The undisputed king of Lollywood music in the 1960s and the ’70s, the musician Nisar Bazmi breathed his last on March 22, 2007, after a career that spanned six decades. Born Syed Nisar Ahmed in Bombay, India, in 1924 to a religious family, he had to change his last name to Bazmi after he got ...

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