Chocolate Hero Remembered On 35th Death Anniversary
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published November 23, 2018 | 04:21 PM
ISLAMABAD, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 23rd Nov, 2018 ) :Legendary Pakistan film Star� producer and script writer Waheed Murad, known as Chocolate Hero, was remembered on Friday on his 35th death anniversary.
"Death of such legendary artistes is unable to make them dead in hearts of people where they will remain alive as Wadeed Murad was an asset of film industry, said renowned actor and former Director General PNCA, Tauqeer Nasir while talking to APP.
"The artistes who learnt and presented their experiences from 60s are still the source of learning for the new artistes and our showbiz can hardly produce such generation", Tauqeer Nasir said.
Born in Sialkot on October 2� 1938 Waheed was the only child of well-off film distributor Nisar Murad.
He got early his education from Karachi Grammar School� did graduation from S.M. Arts College Karachi and then got masters degree in English literature from University of Karachi.
Waheed Murad started his film career from film"Aulaad" and performed as a hero in scores of films.
Many of his films hit the box-office after celebrating silver and golden jubilees.
His film "Armaan" was the first one in the country which won the status of platinum jubilee.
Murad won many awards for recognition of his services to the film industry. Pakistan government presented Sitara-e-Imtiaz, the third highest honor and civilian award by the State of Pakistan, to his son Adil Murad in November 2010, 27 years after his death.
Murad produced eleven films under his father's established 'Film Art'. He was the youngest film producer in the industry at that time. Most of his produced films were either Golden Jubilee or Silver Jubilee.
During the 1960s and early 1970s, he produced films like Insaan badalta hai (1961) (his first film as producer), Armaan (1966), Ehsaan (1967), Naseeb apna apna (1970) and Mastana mahi (Punjabi film of 1971). However, after Mastana Mahi he produced no film except Hero which was produced in the 1980s and was released after his death.
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