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Filmmaker · Pakistan

Daud Chand

Daud Chand, whose name is also written Dawood Chand, was already making films before the partition: Scroll attributes one to him in 1946 and another in 1947. After independence, he shot in Lahore, in studios whose Hindu owners had left for India and which the riots had damaged, the first film released in Pakistan, co-directed with Ram Lal and produced by Dewan Sardari Lal, who had written its story.

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