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Review: Sheeshay Ka Ghar
Esther Das reviews the movie Sheeshay Ka Ghar
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Emotion recollected in tranquility
A prose by Mehreen Ahmed Who isn’t smitten by the dashing Waheed Murad? Despite his meteoric success in the stardom, Waheed is a fashion metaphor, class, culture and romantic nostalgia to boot, as Elvis Presley is in rock and roll. When I pay a visit to his filmy website to catch a glimpse of him,…
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Book review in The News International
‘Remembering Waheed Murad’, review by Omair Alavi published in The News International, November 23, 2016 Technically Waheed Murad: His Life & Our Times is the first book written on the legendary actor who changed the way films were made in the country. And outside of the yearly dose of Nigar (Weekly) that makes its annual appearance on…
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Students at Punjab University review the biography of Waheed Murad
The students of communication studies in the Punjab University have reviewed Waheed Murad: His Life and Our Times (2015) as part of an assignment given by the senior professor Dr. Bushra Rehman. With thanks, excerpts from some of those reviews are being shared here. Muhammad Tayyab A comparison of this book with other biographies of actors, from…
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What Pakistani Film Industry can learn from Waheed Murad
‘What Pakistani film industry can learn from Waheed Murad’ by Syed Qudsia Mashhadi, published in Voice of the East, September 29, 2016 “Khurram Ali Shafique has done a remarkable job of explaining Waheed Murad’s and his team’s love for Pakistan and uncovering their desire of adhering to Jinnah’s and Allama Iqbal’s advice about building of a great…
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Book review in Dawn
‘The people’s actor’, review by Maheen A. Rashdi published in Dawn, Books & Authors, September 25, 2016. Known as Pakistan’s most dashing film hero of all times, Waheed Murad dominated the Pakistani silver screen from the 1960s to the 1980s. Those two decades of cinema in Pakistan gave us such gems as Armaan, Doraha and Anjuman to name but…
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Press report in Voice of America
This write-up in the online Urdu edition of Voice of America on 2 October 2015 was one of the earliest press reports about the book Waheed Murad: His Life and Our Times. Read it at the website of VoA: