Masud Pervaiz

Masud Pervaiz was a film producer-director of Pakistan and is considered to be one of the pioneers in this field in early days of Pakistan.He was born in 1918 at Amritsar,British India. He was first introduced to the film world as a film actor in Punjabi film Mangti (1942) which was a golden jubilee film in British India. After he migrated to Pakistan in 1947,his first film as a film director was Beli (1950). His big breakthrough came with the film Intezar (1956)which was a hit at the box-office.He directed over 23 films in total.As we know,there are two most popular traditional folk love stories from the land of Punjab-Heer Ranjha and Mirza Sahiban.Many books have been written on these folk love stories.Masud Pervaiz had the good fortune of directing 3 highly successful movies at the box-office based on these folk love stories-Mirza Jat (1967),Heer Ranjha (1970)and then again, Mirza Jat (1982)with 3 different film producers, and as a result,his name became well-known in Pakistan.He died on March 11,2001 in Lahore, Pakistan.