Sultan Rahi was a Pakistani actor, producer and screenwriter.
Shaheen Bano, known professionally as Zeba, is a Pakistani actress. She was one of the top stars of the Pakistani film industry in the 1960s and the early 1970s. She was voted among 25 of the greatest actors of Asia in a 2010 CNN poll.
Arthur Nayyar, commonly known as A. Nayyar, was a Pakistani film playback singer. He started his career in 1974 with a duet song. Nayyar always claimed famous singer Ahmed Rushdi as an important contributor to his career as he learned film playback singing from Rushdi. Nayyar and Akhlaq Ahmed remained dominant playback singers of the Pakistani film industry in the late 1970s and throughout the 1980s.
Saima Noor is a Pakistani actress who appears in Pakistani films and television dramas. She rose to prominence after starring in the film Choorian (1998), which is regarded as one of the highest-grossing Pakistani films of all time. Some of her other notable film credits include Buddha Gujjar (2002), Majajan (2006), and Bhai Log (2011), all of which were commercial successes. She was one of the country's leading film actresses during the 1990s and early 2000s.
Virasat is a 1999 Pakistani Urdu movie starring Saima and Shaan. Film song lyrics by Altaf Bajwa and Saeed Gillani. Singers were Shazia Manzoor, Saira Nasim and Azra Jehan, film music composer is Ustad Tafu.
Nazim Panipati was a film song lyricist and a film script writer in the Indian and Pakistani film Industries during the 1940s and 1950s.
Andaleeb is a 1969 Pakistani Urdu colour film starring Waheed Murad, Shabnam, Aliya, and Mustafa Qureshi, and Talish. It was a golden jubilee hit directed by Farid Ahmed, produced by Rashid Mukhtar, and music composed by Nisar Bazmi. Andaleeb received 4 Nigar Awards in different categories.
Safirullah Siddiqui, commonly known by his stage name Lehri, was a Pakistani comedian and an actor in the Urdu film industry of Pakistan.
Ale Ahmad Suroor (1911-2002) was an Urdu poet, critic and professor from India. He is best known for his literary criticism. In 1974 he was honoured with the Sahitya Akademi Award by the Government of India for his literary critic work, Nazar aur Nazariya. In 1991 he was also awarded the Padma Bhushan, India's third highest civilian award. He was awarded a special gold medal by the President of Pakistan on the centenary of the birth of Muhammad Iqbal.
Ghulam Abbas is a Pakistani radio, television, and film singer. He is known for his ghazals, geets, and playback singing for Urdu and Punjabi movies. Besides winning 4 Nigar Awards as a playback singer, he was also honored with the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz in 2011 and the Pride of Performance Award in 2020 by the President of Pakistan.
Ghazala Rafique was a Pakistani radio, tv and film actress. She was also a singer and hostess of Radio Pakistan Karachi. She was one of the most popular female TV actress's in the 1960s and 1970s.
Noor Muhammad Lashari was a stage, radio, TV and film actor from Sindh, Pakistan. He was awarded the Pride of Performance Award in 1992 by the Government of Pakistan.
Robin Ghosh (1939–2016) was a Bangladeshi-descent Pakistani film score composer. He scored music for 47 films in Urdu and Bengali. The following is a complete list of the films he composed:
Bazar-e-Husn is a 1988 Pakistani drama film written by Pervez Kalim, co-directed by Javed Fazil and Sarwar Bhatti who co-produced it also, with Akhtar Bhatti and Akbar Bhatti. The film features Nadeem Baig, Salma Agha, Samina Peerzada, Jehan Zeb, Faisal Rehman and Rangeela. It was released on 9 September 1988 and was a box office success. The film won 6 trophies at 1988 Nigar Awards.
Aaj Aur Kal is a 1976 Pakistani Urdu language social film produced by Irfan Malik and directed by S. Suleman. The lead cast included Shabnam, Rahat Kazmi, Nisho, Ghulam Mohiuddin, Qavi, and Lehri. The film was a remake of director Nazir Ajmeri's Paigham (1964). Aaj Aur Kal was a diamond jubilee hit at the box office and won 8 Nigar Awards for different categories, including the "best film" of the year.
Paigham is a Pakistani social drama film, directed by Nazir Ajmeri, and co-produced by S. M. Yusuf and F. M. Sardar under banner F&Y Movies. It starred Shamim Ara, Sultan and Rukhsana. The film was remade by S. Suleman as Aaj Aur Kal (1976).