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Filmmaker · Pakistan

Nazar-ul-Islam

Died in 1994

Nazar-ul-Islam, whose name is also written Nazrul Islam, was born in Calcutta in 1939 and began his career as an editor in the Dhaka studios in the early sixties, before directing his first film there in Urdu. After the secession of East Pakistan in 1971, he settled in Lahore, where he became one of the most followed directors of the seventies and eighties, known for his realistic approach and his new subjects. He died on 11 January 1994 and was buried in Lahore.

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