Zahur Raja

Actor, singer, producer and director (born 1918)

Zahur Raja was born in Abbottabad in 1918 and did most jobs a film allows - acting, singing, producing and directing, sometimes on the same picture. He was on screen from Mirza Sahiban (1939) through Pooja (1940), Sikandar (1941), Sewa (1942), Mazaaq (1943), Panchhi (1944) and Ghazal (1945) to Anmol Ghadi (1946), and he directed O Panchhi (1944), Ghazal (1945) and Dhadkan (1946), starring in the last himself. He is fourth-billed on Anmol Ghadi, in a cast where the three above him all sing their own songs. He moved to Pakistan after partition and died in Lahore; the year is not recorded in anything consulted.