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Roshni (film)
''Roshni'' is a Pakistani film directed and produced by Qavi, and was the only film that he ever directed. The lead cast of the film includes Nadeem, Nisho, Mumtaz, and Sabiha Khanum and Lehri. The music was composed by Kamal Ahmed. Released on 14 November 1975, the film became average at the box office. The film was based on Jameel Bismil's TV play ''Housefull''. Plot Roni used to live a joyful life full of clubs and parties, but gets disturbs when Hanif, her former lover blackmails her by her photos. She accidentally comes across Jahangir, an educated and unemployed guy from a lower town who treats with the bullies who tease the people of his town. She visits her town along with him and feels calm there due to the simplicity of the life, that exists there. She attracts towards him too, and offers him a job in her father's office which he accepts. Tired of her disturbed life and Hanif's blackmailing, she starts to commit suicide but Jahangir stops her by reaching there ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qavi Khan
Muhammad Qavi Khan ( ur, ) is a Pakistani film and television actor. He has also worked in Radio Pakistan and on stage. Though now largely working in television, he has acted in over 200 films. The Government of Pakistan honoured Khan with the Pride of Performance in 1980 and Sitara-e-Imtiaz in 2012 for his contribution to the field of arts.Investiture Ceremony: 67 to receive national awards today The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 23 March 2012. Retrieved 18 June 2019 Life and career Khan began working as a child actor at in |
Riaz Ur Rehman Saghar
Riaz-Ur-Rehman Saghar (Punjabi, ur, ریاض الرحمان ساغر, (born 1 December 1941, Bathinda, Punjab, British India; died 1 June 2013, at Lahore, Pakistan) was a poet and a film song lyricist active in Pakistani cinema. He had been awarded numerous awards in recognition of his services to the Pakistani film industry. He is credited with having written over 25000 songs in his lifetime, including many for noted Pakistani singers such as Hadiqa Kiani ("Dupatta Mera Malmal Da" وپٹا میرا ململ دا "Yaad Sajan Di Ayi" اد سجن دی آوے and a duet song with Asha Bhosle and Adnan Sami Khan ("Kabhi to Nazar Milao" بھی تو نظر ملاؤ. Saghar also wrote prose and film dialogue in some of the films. Early life Riaz-ur-Rehman Saghar was born on 1 December 1941 in Bathinda(بٹھنڈا), Punjab, British India to Maulvi Muhammad Azeem (مولوی محمد عظیم) and Sadiqan Bibi (صدیقن بی بی). In 1947, his family emigrated t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Statesman (Pakistan)
The total number of newspapers are 707 as 2019 according to Pakistan bureau of statistic.Following is a list of newspapers in Pakistan. }) , Pashto , Peshawar , 1983 , , - , 43 , '' Sajjan''( Punjabi:سجن) , rowspan="3" , Punjabi , Lahore , 1989 , First Punjabi newspaper of Pakistan, started in 1989 by Hussain naqi and defunct in 1990. Started online website again in 2019. , - , 45 , ''Daily Lokaai''( Punjabi:لوکائی) , Lahore , 2006 , , - , 47 , ''Bhulekha''( Punjabi:بھلیکھا) , Lahore, Gujranwala , 1989 , , - , 48 , '' Daily Hilal-e-Pakistan''( sd, هلال پاڪستان) , rowspan="4" , Sindhi , Karachi , 1946 , , - , 49 , ''Daily Kawish'' ( sd, ڪاوش) , Hyderabad , 1990 , , - , 50 , '' Daily Koshish'' ( sd, ڪوشش) , Hyderabad , 1998 , , - , 51 , ''Daily Mehran'' ( sd, مهراڻ) , Hyderabad , 1957 , , - , 52 , '' Daily 92''( ur, روزنامہ ٩٢) , Urdu , Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad, Quetta, Peshawa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ahmed Rushdie
Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (; born 19 June 1947) is an Indian-born British-American novelist. His work often combines magic realism with historical fiction and primarily deals with connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations, typically set on the Indian subcontinent. Rushdie's second novel, '' Midnight's Children'' (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be "the best novel of all winners" on two occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. After his fourth novel, '' The Satanic Verses'' (1988), Rushdie became the subject of several assassination attempts and death threats, including a ''fatwa'' calling for his death issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the supreme leader of Iran. Numerous killings and bombings have been carried out by extremists who cite the book as motivation, sparking a debate about censorship and religiously motivated violence. On 12 August 2022, a man stabbed Rushdie after rushing ont ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naheed Akhtar
Naheed Akhtar (also spelled Nahid Akhtar) is a Pakistani playback singer. She is tagged as the "''Nightingale of Pakistan''". She was the top Lollywood playback singer during the second half of 70s and 80s. She won 3 Nigar Awards and a Pride of Performance in 2007. Early life and family Akhtar was born on September 26, 1956 in Multan, Punjab. She has 3 sisters and 4 brothers. A sister of her, ''Hameeda Akhtar'', was also a singer. Singing career Nahid's career began in 1970 when she sang a duet with Khalid Asghar in " Raag Malhar" at Radio Pakistan Multan. She has recorded songs in a range of styles, including Pakistani film music, pop, Ghazal, traditional Pakistani classical music, Punjabi folk songs, Qawwalis, Naat & Hamds & Others. She was first discovered for films by veteran music director M. Ashraf in the mid-1970s who pursued her to sing in films. She had no well-known person as ''ustad'' (teacher) to train her musically but music director M. Ashraf played a key ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mala Begum
Naseem Begum ( Punjabi, ur, ; 9 November 1942 – 5 March 1990), known professionally as Mala ( ur, ), was a Pakistani playback singer of Urdu and Punjabi films. In the 1960s, Mala was a 'hit pair for singing duet film songs' with famous playback singer Ahmed Rushdi and they gave numerous hits to Pakistan film industry. She was also called ''Princess Mala Begum'' as she provided the singing voice for actresses who portrayed roles of royal and upper-class families in films. She sang many popular film songs spanning almost three decades of her singing career in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Mala's career suffered a setback with the arrival of Runa Laila in the Pakistani film industry. Early life Mala's given name was Naseem Begum. She was born on 9 November 1942 in Faisalabad, Punjab. She was the younger sister of music composer ''Shamim Nazli''. Career Mala was interested in singing and music from a young age. Her elder sister happened to be her first music teacher an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mehnaz Begum
Mehnaz Begum (1958 – 19 January 2013) was a Pakistani TV, radio, and film singer. She was well known as a film playback singer in the 1970s and 1980s. She was the recipient of Nigar Awards. Dawn (newspaper), 10 April 2006. Retrieved 21 April 2020 Early life and career Mehnaz Begum was born at Mahmudabad, Uttar Pradesh, India in 1958. Her family migrated to Pakistan in the late 1950s. She received her initial training in music from her mother Kajjan Begum who was also a singer. She started her career as a playback singer in the early 1970s. Saleem Gilani, th ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chhaap Tilak Sab Chheeni
''Chhaap Tilak Sab Chheeni'', is a Ghazal written and composed by Amir Khusro, a 14th-century Sufi mystic, in popular Western Indian language Braj Bhasha. Due to the resonance of its melody and mystical lyrics, it is frequently heard in Qawwali concerts across Indian Subcontinent. Chaapp Tilak Sab Chheeni is considered as Amir Khusru‘s most known Kalam which is basically a penned version of his imagination of devotion and the joy of oneness with the eternal one. This poetry is an epic example where an inherent middle eastern art form gets entangled with the Indic philology, custom and art a unique twist between the two artforms. This kind of devotion is rarely seen in Islamic ghazals and qawwalis preceding it. This poetry is a great example of the role both cultures played to create this Ghazal and Qawwali which has a unique essence combining both Indic and Islamic culture which inherently created a new unique art form which contributed to the early beginnings of the Ganga-Jamuni T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kamal Ahmed (music Director)
Kamal Ahmed (20 April 1937 – 6 June 1993), was a Pakistani film music director. He has the second-highest number of film scores of more than 100 Urdu movies, after M. Ashraf who did more than 250 Urdu movies as a music director. Kamal won 6 Best Musician Nigar Awards during his long film career. Early life Kamal Ahmad was born in Gurgaon, Uttar Pradesh, British India on April 20, 1937. Career Kamal's debut film as a music director was ''Nadira'' (1967). In this movie, he composed music along with his music teacher Rehman Verma. He got his first breakthrough with the movie ''Rangeela'' (1970) in which his composed song, "Ga More Munwa Gaata Ja Re" became popular. In film, ''Tere Mere Sapnay'' (1975), Kemal used the voices of Naheed Akhtar, Rubina Badar, Mehdi Hassan and Masood Rana for songs, "Mujhe Teri Najarya Ne", "Kabhi Tou Rukh Se Uthe Ga", "Tere Ghar Doli Le Ke", "Main Ho Gaee Dil Dar Ki", "Bhaven Hove Laraee", "Koi Mujhe Kehta Hai", "Sab Kuch Khuda Se", and "Main Ta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadeem Baig (actor)
Mirza Nazeer Baig (born 19 July 1941), also known by his stage name Nadeem ( ur, ندیم) is a Pakistani actor, singer and producer. He has appeared in over two hundred films and has won the 1997 Pride of Performance award. In Pakistan Nadeem enjoys the same status as Amitabh Bachchan enjoys in India. Early life Baig was born in Vijayawada in modern Andhra Pradesh which, in 1941, was part of Madras Presidency in British India. Nadeem Baig migrated to Dhaka, East Pakistan along with his family after the independence of Pakistan in 1947. He finished his high school at Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam and attended some years of college at Government Islamia Science College, Karachi before he entered the Pakistani film industry.Profile: The legend speaks Dawn (newspaper), Published 29 July 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2021 Nadeem, along with arti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
