Filmmaker · Pakistan
Syed Noor
Syed Noor was born in 1950 in Lahore. He entered cinema in 1970 as an assistant to the director S. Suleman, then became the most sought-after screenwriter in the country, author of some three hundred screenplays in Urdu and Punjabi, before moving into directing in the early nineties. Dawn Images sees in him the man who began the revival of Pakistani cinema of that decade; he has directed fifty-five films and received the Sitara-e-Imtiaz.