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People From Lahore
Below is a list of people who are known for their association with Lahore. It does not necessarily mean that they were born in the city or were even nationals of the country. Historical * Masud Sa'd Salman * Abu-al-Faraj Runi * Nur Jahan * Ustad Ahmad Lahori * Wazir Khan * Muhammad Ali Jinnah Rulers * Jahangir , Mughal Emperor , buried near Lahore * Shah Jahan, Mughal Emperor * Maharaja Ranjit Singh , first ruler and founder of the Sikh Empire of the Punjab * Kharak Singh, Maharaja of Sikh Empire * Nau Nihal Singh, Maharaja of Sikh Empire * Duleep Singh, Maharaja of Sikh Empire Actors and filmmakers Artists * Abdur Rahman Chughtai * Ajaz Anwar * Amrita Sher-Gil * Anna Molka Ahmed * Bhai Ram Singh, architect * Nayyar Ali Dada, architect * Rashid Rana, artist * Salima Hashmi * Shakir Ali, artist, art teacher, former head of the National College of Arts in Lahore * Shahzia Sikander, artist * Sir Ganga Ram, philanthropist, architect, civil engineer, and agriculturis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night View Of Badshahi Mosque (King%E2%80%99s Mosque)
Night (also described as night time, unconventionally spelled as "nite") is the period of ambient darkness from sunset to sunrise during each 24-hour day, when the Sun is below the horizon. The exact time when night begins and ends depends on the location and varies throughout the year, based on factors such as season and latitude. The word can be used in a different sense as the time between bedtime and morning. In common communication, the word ''night'' is used as a farewell ("good night", sometimes shortened to "night"), mainly when someone is going to sleep or leaving. Astronomical night is the period between astronomical dusk and astronomical dawn when the Sun is between 18 and 90 degrees below the horizon and does not illuminate the sky. As seen from latitudes between about 48.56° and 65.73° north or south of the Equator, complete darkness does not occur around the summer solstice because, although the Sun sets, it is never more than 18° below the horizon at lower ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amina Haq
Aaminah Haq ( ur, ), also variously spelled as Aamina Haq and Amna Haq) is a Pakistani model and actress. Haq has modelled for magazines including ''She'', ''Libas'', ''Visage'', ''Women's Own'', ''Fashion Collection'' and '' Newsline''. She also hosted three seasons of ''Lux Style ki Duniya'', and hosted a chat show for Aag TV, called the ''Aaminah Haq Show''. Haq has acted in a number of Urdu TV dramas such as ''Chaandni Raatain'' and ''Ghulam Gardish''. She also appeared in the TV drama ''Mehndi: The Color of Emotions''. Personal life Aaminah Haq is a cousin of Hina Rabbani Khar, former Foreign Minister of Pakistan. Haq and fashion designer Ammar Belal were married in 2009. she is daughter of former chief minister punjab Ghulam Mustafa Khar Television serials * Aina * Chupke Chupke * ''Doorian'' * Aap Jaisa Koi * ''Haal e Dil'' Music videos *''Fraudiye'', by Awaz *''Ankhoon Ko Ankhoon Ne'', by Junaid Jamshed *''Channa Ve Channa'', by Rahim Shah *''Mahive'', by Faakhir * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jana Malik
Jana Malik ( ur, ; born 26 April 1974) is a Pakistani actress who appears in television serials. Jana Malik is also known as Janan or Jana. She is best known for playing the supporting character of Pashi snake-charmer in supernatural series ''Naagin'', which aired on Geo Kahani. She was seen in the television serials ''Mar Jain Bhi To Kya'' , ''Parlour Wali Larki'' and ''Ek Tamanna Lahasil Si'' and is well known for her lead role in the serial ''Aiteraaf''. In addition, she has also been seen in ''Muhafiz'', Zor in 1998. Personal life She was born in Lahore on 26 April 1974. She was married to Nouman Javaid on 2 September 2016. The couple divorced in March 2017. Career Jana started her career as an actress in PTV when she was thirteen years old. She made her debut with the serial ''Reizgar'' aired on PTV Home. After that she was seen in ''Maigh Malhaar'' and then acted in a children's musical show ''Aangan Aangan Tarey'' on PTV. She also appeared in an Urdu language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iman Ali
Iman Ali ( ur, ; born 19 December 1980) is a Pakistani actress, model, and singer who appears in Urdu films. Ali made her film debut with a leading role in the 2007 thriller film ''Khuda Kay Liye'', for which she won a Lux Style Award for Best Actress. She has also starred as the main female lead in the 2016 film '' Mah e Mir'', and had a supporting role in the 2011 social drama '' Bol''. Early life Iman was born on 19 December 1980, in Lahore, Pakistan. Career Iman Ali first appeared in the serial ''Dil Dekay Jaien Gay'' followed by '' Arman'', '' Kismat'', ''Woh Tees Din'', ''Pehla Pyar,'' and ''Kuch Log Roth Kar Bhi''. In addition, she starred alongside Shehzad Roy in the first episode of the Geo News TV Serial " Chal Parha" which aired on Geo News in 2013. In 2005, Iman Ali appeared in ''Ishq Mohabbat Apna Pan,'' also known as ''Anarkali'' video, in a seven-minute music video directed by Shoaib Mansoor. She made her screen debut with the leading role in the Zoheb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabrielle Drake
Gabrielle Drake (born 30 March 1944) is a British actress. She appeared in the 1970s in television series '' The Brothers'' and ''UFO''. In the early 1970s she appeared in several erotic roles on screen. She later took parts in soap operas ''Crossroads'' and ''Coronation Street''. She has also had a stage career. Her brother was the musician Nick Drake, whose work she has consistently helped to promote since his death in 1974. Early life and education Drake was born in Lahore, British India, the daughter of Rodney Drake and amateur songwriter Molly Drake. Her father was an engineer working for the Bombay Burmah Trading Corporation. The family moved from Burma to Britain when she was eight. She later commented that, On the ship travelling to Britain she appeared in children's theatrical productions, later saying of herself "I was a dreadful exhibitionist." She attended St George's School, Birmingham, Edgbaston College for Girls in Birmingham, Wycombe Abbey School, Buckingha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fawad Afzal Khan
Fawad Afzal Khan ( ur, ) (born 29 November 1981) is a Pakistani actor, producer, screenwriter, model and singer having received several awards including a Filmfare Award, two Lux Style Awards and six Hum Awards. Khan began his acting career on the television sitcom, ''Jutt and Bond''. He formed an alternative rock band, Entity Paradigm, with the show's co-stars and began his music career as its lead singer. The band appeared on the finale of ''Pepsi Battle of the Bands'' in 2002 and Khan became known for its 2003 debut album, ''Irtiqa''. After about 250 performances, he left the band to pursue a film career. Khan made his film debut with a supporting role in Shoaib Mansoor's sociodrama, ''Khuda Kay Liye'' (2007), one of Pakistan's highest-grossing films. He had his first success in the television period drama, '' Dastaan'' (2010), for which he received the Best Male Actor Award at the Pakistan Media Awards. Khan played a lead role in the Pakistani television serial '' Hums ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dev Anand
Dharamdev Pishorimal Anand (26 September 1923 – 3 December 2011), better known as Dev Anand, was an Indian actor, writer, director and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema, through a career that spanned over six decades. He was one of the most successful actors of Indian cinema and a part of "Trinity- The Golden Trio" along with Raj Kapoor and Dilip Kumar. The Government of India honoured him with the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2002 for his contribution to Indian cinema. He has won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor twice and Filmfare's Lifetime Achievement Award in 1993. A fast dialogue delivery style and nodding while doing do soon became the trademarks of Anand's acting in movies. His style was copied by other actors. Most of Dev Anand's movies explored his viewpoint of the world and often highlighted many socially relevant topics. In 1946, he debuted with lead role in Prabhat Films' Hum Ek Hain, a film about Hindu-Muslim u ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Gooderson
David Gooderson (born 24 February 1941) is an English actor who has appeared in several television roles. Career As well as portraying Davros, creator of the Daleks in the ''Doctor Who'' serial ''Destiny of the Daleks'', he appeared in episodes of ''Lovejoy'', '' Mapp & Lucia'' and ''A Touch of Frost''. Gooderson was also featured on many radio programmes for the BBC, including '' The Next Programme Follows Almost Immediately'' with Bill Wallis, David Jason, Denise Coffey and Jonathan Cecil and ''Huddwinks'' with Roy Hudd and others. He wrote several plays for stage and radio broadcast, and published several books about Kenneth Grahame. Gooderson was a member of the Cambridge Footlights Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, founded in 1883 and run by the students of Cambridge University. History Footlights' inaugural ..., and featured in the cast of the 1964 F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chetan Anand (director)
Chetan Anand (3 January 1921 – 6 July 1997) was a Hindi film producer, screenwriter and director from India, whose debut film, ''Neecha Nagar'', was awarded the Grand Prix Prize (Now Golden Palm) at the first ever Cannes Film Festival in 1946. Later he co-founded Navketan Films with his younger brother Dev Anand in 1949. Biography Early life Anand was born on 3 January 1921, in Lahore, British India, to well-to-do advocate Pishori Lal Anand. He went to Gurukul Kangri Vishwavidyalaya to study Hindu scriptures and graduated in English from Government College Lahore. He remained a member of Indian National Congress in the 1930s, subsequently worked for the BBC and taught at the Doon School, Dehradun for a while, before coming down to Bombay to sell a film script. Career In the early 1940s, while he was teaching History, he wrote a film script on king Ashoka, which he went on to show to director Phani Majumdar in Bombay. Anand failed to qualify for the Indian Civil Service (ICS) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bahar Begum
Bahar Begum (born Kishwar Begum; ) is an actress best known for many Pakistani movies since 1956. She was first introduced to the Pakistani film industry by the renowned film director Anwar Kamal Pasha in film Chann Mahi (1956). Anwar Kamal Pasha is the one that gave her the professional film world name Bahar Begum. She later acted both in Punjabi, Pashto and Urdu language Pakistani films and had a very active career from 1956 through the 1980s. She has more than 600 films to her credit. Early life and education Bahar Begum studied at the Convent of Jesus and Mary Lahore, Pakistan. Career Having grown up in Lahore, Pakistan, her career has centered on the Punjabi film industry, initially playing heroines and then "emotionally strong mothers", usually ending-up playing 'mother' to popular lead actor of Punjabi films Sultan Rahi in his films during the 1980s. She has performed well in films playing a loud rural woman, especially the role of a ''Chaudhrani'' in Punjabi movie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Badar Khalil
Badar Khalil ( ur, ; born 15 October 1944), also known as 'Baddo Aapa', is a Pakistani television actress. She gained popularity for her role in the TV play Bi Jamalo portraying herself as Bi Jamalo. Later on, she appeared in many as hit TV serials on PTV from 1968 to now. She also did a TV show ''Mithu Aur Aapa'', a critically acclaimed comedy play on Hum TV. Early life Badar khalil was born in Delhi, British India to a Kashmiri father and a Delhite mother. Her family moved to Lahore during partition in 1947, but now she is living in Karachi, Pakistan. She moved with her husband Shahzad Khalil to Karachi after working for a short time at Pakistan Television Corporation (Lahore Center). Career In Karachi, her first main appearance was in Unkahi which was a classic TV drama written by veteran Pakistani playwright Haseena Moin. Badar Khalil started her showbiz career in 1968 as an anchor in children's shows on PTV. Initially, Badar Khalil gained her recognition for the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ayesha Omar
Ayesha Omar (born 12 October 1981) is a Pakistani actress and YouTuber. Considered as a style icon in her home country, Omar is one of the most popular and highest-paid actresses of Pakistan. In 2012, she released her first singles "Chalte Chalte" and "Khamoshi" which, although a commercial success in Pakistan, was met with a mixed reaction from critics. Omar went on to win Lux Style Award for Best Album. She made her film debut in the lead role with successful romantic-comedy '' Karachi Se Lahore'' in 2015, followed by supporting characters in war film ''Yalghaar'' (2017) and the drama ''Kaaf Kangana'' (2019)''.'' Early life and education Omar was born in Lahore. She was one year old when her father died and her mother raised Omar and her brother as a single parent. She described her childhood as ''tough'' and ''independent''. She attended Lahore Grammar School, and went to the National College of Arts for her Bachelors and Masters qualifications. While in school and coll ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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