Paras Masroor is a Pakistani theatre and television actor and screenwriter.
He has played the role of Torah Khan in
Momina Duraid
Momina Duraid (, born 30 June 1971) is a Pakistani director and producer. She is a senior producer and creative head of television network Hum TV and CEO of her own production company MD Productions. She has produced and created several series ...
's ''
Sang-e-Mar Mar'' (2016) for which he received
Hum Award for Best Supporting Actor.
He further appeared in films ''
Na Maloom Afrad'' (2014) and ''
Mah e Mir'' (2016).
Early life and education
He belongs to a
Sindhi Sufi
Sufism ( or ) is a mysticism, mystic body of religious practice found within Islam which is characterized by a focus on Islamic Tazkiyah, purification, spirituality, ritualism, and Asceticism#Islam, asceticism.
Practitioners of Sufism are r ...
family involved in the arts : his grandfather, Ghulam Ali Masroor, who went by the pen-name ''Faqeer'', wrote Sufi poetry in six languages (Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Sindhi, Seraiki and English), while his father,
Beydil Masroor, is a musician and writer who also served as senior director/producer for
PTV for some 35 years and his mother
Beena Masroor is an actress, Paras inheriting his interest in arts from them, as he is involved in sculpture, painting, drawing and music as well (he can play the
tabla
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and the guitar).
He got his
Master's
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in
sociology
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and
mass communications
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from the
Karachi University
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before studying acting at the
NAPA.
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Career
Starting his career as a theatre actor, he moved on to television.
Filmography
Theatre
Films
Television
Accolades
References
External links
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Pakistani male stage actors
Pakistani male film actors
Pakistani male television actors
21st-century Pakistani male actors
University of Karachi alumni
National Academy of Performing Arts alumni
Sindhi people
Sindhi male actors