Moin Akhter (also: "معین اختر" Moin Akhtar), (24 December 1950
â€" 22 April 2011) was a Pakistani television, film and stage artist,
humorist, comedian, impersonator, host, writer, singer, director and
producer who rose to fame in the era of Radio Pakistan along with his
co-actors Anwer Maqsood and Bushra Ansari. He became an icon through
his screen persona "Rosy" and is considered to be a one-of-a-kind
parodist and the king of Urdu comedy. His career spanned more than 45
years, from childhood in the Radio Pakistan era of modern film making
until a year before his death in 2011.Akhter was born in Karachi,
Sindh, Pakistan. His father, Muhammad Ibrahim Mehboob, who died a few
months after Akhtar, at the age of 92, was born in Muradabad, in the
modern-day state of Uttar Pradesh in India, and after settling in
Karachi as a result of the Partition, "passed his life in his own
printing press and as a contractor in the garments business." Akhter
was fluent in several languages, including English, Bengali, Sindhi,
Punjabi, Memoni, Pashto, Gujarati and Urdu.Akhter started his acting
career as child actor at the age of 13. He played the character of
Shylock in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in theatre.
â€" 22 April 2011) was a Pakistani television, film and stage artist,
humorist, comedian, impersonator, host, writer, singer, director and
producer who rose to fame in the era of Radio Pakistan along with his
co-actors Anwer Maqsood and Bushra Ansari. He became an icon through
his screen persona "Rosy" and is considered to be a one-of-a-kind
parodist and the king of Urdu comedy. His career spanned more than 45
years, from childhood in the Radio Pakistan era of modern film making
until a year before his death in 2011.Akhter was born in Karachi,
Sindh, Pakistan. His father, Muhammad Ibrahim Mehboob, who died a few
months after Akhtar, at the age of 92, was born in Muradabad, in the
modern-day state of Uttar Pradesh in India, and after settling in
Karachi as a result of the Partition, "passed his life in his own
printing press and as a contractor in the garments business." Akhter
was fluent in several languages, including English, Bengali, Sindhi,
Punjabi, Memoni, Pashto, Gujarati and Urdu.Akhter started his acting
career as child actor at the age of 13. He played the character of
Shylock in Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice in theatre.
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