Adnan Sarwar is a Pakistani actor, director, musician, screenwriter, producer, lyricist, doctor and racing driver. He made his film debut in the biopic ''

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'', in which he also played the leading role.

Career

Music

From 2002 onwards Adnan started his music career as a session guitar player for various Pakistani musicians such as ''The Trip'', ''

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, before forming the duo ''Club Caramel'' with singer Kiran Chaudhry in 2006. He has also composed the soundtrack of his debut film ''Shah''.

Film and TV

Adnan made his film debut in the 2015 Pakistani sports biopic ''

'', based on the life of Olympian boxer

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. Adnan also wrote the screenplay and directed the film as well as composed the original musical score. Adnan trained for the role of the homeless boxer by undergoing a six-month long boxing training regime and lost 10 kilos of body weight. Despite being produced on a shoestring budget by a team of five people, Shah was hailed as "not only an achievement for Adnan Sarwar but for the whole

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" and Sarwar was praised by critics for his portrayal of the Lyari born Pakistani boxing legend. In April 2017, it was announced that Adnan was working on his second feature film '' Motorcycle Girl'' based on the real-life story of Zenith Irfan, who is thought to be the first Pakistani woman to make a solo motorcycle journey across the country at the age of 20. The film released in 2018 to good critical appreciation with Adnan writing, co-producing and directing it.Sarwar's next film is a biopic of Zenith Irfan aka "Motorcycle Girl"
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's 2018 drama '' Aakhri Station''. In January 2019 he announced to make three films by 2020.

Other

Sarwar has trained as a Doctor of Medicine and is a graduate of

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, and has previously worked as a doctor in

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. He is also trained as a high-performance race car driver and has represented Pakistan in lower categories of formula car racing series in various international auto racing competitions, he became the first ever local Pakistani to get selected to race for the A1 GP Team Pakistan in the

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motorsports Worldcup series. He also founded a company Racing Pakistan, through which his aim was too create awareness of motorsports in Pakistan and to promote and educate young Pakistani talented drivers in international motor racing categories.

Filmography

Films

Television

Web series

Accolades

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Sarwar, Adnan Living people Pakistani male film actors Pakistani screenwriters Pakistani lyricists Pakistani racing drivers Musicians from Lahore Film directors from Lahore Male actors from Lahore 1979 births Sportspeople from Lahore Pakistani expatriates in Australia