Masood Parvez (1918 10 March 2001), also spelled as Masud Pervaiz, was a Pakistani film director known for his work in

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. He also worked in

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s before

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and after migrating to Pakistan, he produced most of his work in

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s where he made his directorial debut with ''Beli'' (1950). ''Beli'' (1950) was the first film of

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and Santosh Kumar besides being directorial debut of Parvez. The film flopped at the box office due to political instabilities caused by the partition. It was also the debut film of

Rashid Attre Abdul Rasheed Attray (15 February 1919 – 18 December 1967), also known as Rasheed Attre, was a Pakistani film score composer. Early life and career Rasheed Attre was born in Amritsar, Punjab, British India in 1919. His father, Khushi Mohamma ...

in Pakistan.

Biography

A relative of

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, who was his maternal uncle, Parvez was born in

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in 1918. Following the partition of the

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, he migrated to Pakistan. He obtained his

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in Physics from the Government College, Lahore (in modern-day the

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). He wanted to obtain doctorate degree in Germany, but his maternal uncle Saadat Hasan Manto asked him to change his plan and he subsequently joined with Manto in

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where he worked in a number of films. After partition, he settled in

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, Pakistan where he directed and produced

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and Punjabi films, including ''Heer Ranjha''.

Death

Masood Parvez died in Lahore on 10 March 2001.

Awards and recognition

* 2

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as 'Best Director' for Punjabi film ''

Heer Ranjha '' Ranjha'' () is a classical Punjabi folk tragedy with many historic poetic narrations; with the first one penned by Damodar Gulati in 1600s, on the preexisting oral legend; and the most famous one, ''Heer'', written by Waris Shah in 17 ...

'' (1970) and then '' Khak Aur Khoon'' (1979).

Filmography

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Parvez, Masood 1918 births 2001 deaths Muhajir people Pakistani people of Kashmiri descent Government College University, Lahore alumni Film directors from Lahore Urdu-language film directors Pakistani film directors Nigar Award winners Punjabi-language film directors