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Filmmaker · Pakistan

Khwaja Khurshid Anwar

Died in 1984

Khwaja Khurshid Anwar was born on 21 March 1912 in Mianwali, the son of a Lahore lawyer. Top of his class in philosophy at Government College in 1935, he was kept out of the colonial administration for his activities against the British, learned classical singing from Tawakkal Hussain and joined Delhi radio in 1939. A composer in Bombay and then in Lahore, he often worked with the director Masood Parvez and himself directed three films. He died in Lahore on 30 October 1984.

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