Tuesday 20 November 2012

Santosh Kumar

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Santosh Kumar Biography

Santosh Kumar whose real name was Syed Musa Raza, son of Syed Daud Musa, successfully graduated with higher grades, from Usmania University, Hyderabad Deccan, India, before the partition.
Moreover, he also passed the I.C.S. examination in flying colors, which is a pre-requisite for higher civil service.
In reality, he had been impatiently waiting for his appointment in the government service, when a friend encouraged him to try his luck in films.
In fact, Santosh looked like a typical prince of a romantic movie. He possessed all the qualities required of a film hero: Superb facial cuts, ,more than average height, authority on Urdu and English vocabulary, quick wit, ingenious with God-gifted wisdom and praise-worthy etiquette.
'Ahensa' was the first film of Santosh as a hero, which was released in 1948, under the banner of Kashmir films.
In 1948, he also appeared as a side hero in his second movie, 'Meri Kahani' which was released in 1949 at Nishat cinema, Karachi.
Munawwar Sultana and Surender played the lead roles.
After independence, Santosh migrated to Lahore, Pakistan, along with his family.
'Beli' was his first film as a hero, which was picturised and released in Pakistan ('Beli': 1949, screen writer: Sa'adat Hasan Munto, director:
Masood Pervez, who also assisted W.Z. Ahmed as his special advisor, composer: Rasheed Attray, lead actress: Shaheena, daughter of renowned composer-actor Rafiq Ghaznavi, also included were M.Ismail, Shahnawaz, Anwar Adha and Sabiha Khanum ('Beli' was Sabiha's debut film)
In 1949, director Anwar Kamal Pasha, son of Hakeem Ahmed Shuja Pasha, established his film studio, 'Naubahar films' and started the location shooting of the film 'Dou Aansoo', which was based on a novel, 'Baap ka gunah', penned by his father.
'Dou Aansoo' was released in April 1950, in Jubilee cinema, Karachi, and it was also the first silver jubilee film of Pakistan. (Director: Anwar Kamal Pasha, assistant director: Murtaza Jeelani, who also co-ordinated with director Nazeer in his movie, 'Sacchai' in which Santosh performed the role of 'Aslam' opposite two lead actresses, Sabiha and Gulshan Ara. Other performers were Shamim Banu, Himaliya Wala, Shahnawaz, Ajmal, Fazal Shah, Azad, Alauddin, Ghazala and a new comer, comedian , Asif Jah.
'Dou Aansoo' not only gave a vintage quality to the performance of the entire film crew, but also proved to be a milestone in each and every participant's career.

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1 comment:

  1. I had the personal experience of meeting with two brothers of Santosh Sahib, Darpan in Dubai when he came to Dubai to clinch the business of recruitment and Syed Suleman in Islamabad. The writer of this script has not done full justice for ignoring the classic pictures of Santosh in Punjabi language like Mukhra, a hit on the box office. I think Santosh was unique in himself and there has been no match whatsover in Pakistani film industry since inception.

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