A. R. Kardar

Abdur Rashid Kardar was born in Lahore in 1904 and began as a calligrapher of film posters. Assistant and actor on Lahore's first silent film in 1924, he founded a studio there in 1928 that laid the foundations of local cinema, then settled in Bombay, where he opened his own studios in 1940. There he launched Naushad, Majrooh Sultanpuri and Suraiya. He left for Pakistan in 1947, returned to India, worked there until the nineteen-seventies and died in 1989.

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• CinemaShahjehanशाहजहाँA. R. Kardar · 1946Cinema