Badar Munir (1940 â€" 11 October 2008) was a Pakistani film actor.
Originally from Madyan in the state of Swat, he starred in over 732
Pashto, Urdu and Punjabi language films from 1968 to 2008.Badar Munir
was raised with a religious background in Swat. He completed his basic
elementary school education there and then came to Karachi.Before
joining films, Badar Munir used to drive Rikshaw on Karachi streets.
Then he got a job as a lighting technician on actor Waheed Murad's
recommendation in a Karachi film studio. He was introduced by Waheed
Murad to the film industry in 1970. His first movie was Yousuf Khan
Sher Bano (1970), with Yasmin Khan as the heroine. This Pashto
language film was the first film of Pakistan film industry in this
language in 1970. In 2016, city of Karachi has the largest urban
population of Pashto-speaking people in the world, larger than even in
Peshawar, Kabul, Quetta and Kandahar.
Originally from Madyan in the state of Swat, he starred in over 732
Pashto, Urdu and Punjabi language films from 1968 to 2008.Badar Munir
was raised with a religious background in Swat. He completed his basic
elementary school education there and then came to Karachi.Before
joining films, Badar Munir used to drive Rikshaw on Karachi streets.
Then he got a job as a lighting technician on actor Waheed Murad's
recommendation in a Karachi film studio. He was introduced by Waheed
Murad to the film industry in 1970. His first movie was Yousuf Khan
Sher Bano (1970), with Yasmin Khan as the heroine. This Pashto
language film was the first film of Pakistan film industry in this
language in 1970. In 2016, city of Karachi has the largest urban
population of Pashto-speaking people in the world, larger than even in
Peshawar, Kabul, Quetta and Kandahar.
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