Famous film actor Sudhir remembered.

ISLAMABAD -- Actor, director and producer Shah Zaman Khan Afridi better known by his filmi name as Sudhir was remembered on Thursday on the occasion of his death anniversary. Born on January 25, 1921, Sudhir was a highly respected film personality.

He was of Pashtun origin but he spent all his life in Lahore. He debuted with a role in a Bollywood film named Farz in 1947 but after partition he migrated to Pakistan and he started his career in local cinema and his first film was Hichkolay in 1949. He appeared in the hit musical film Dupatta in 1952. In 1954, his film Sassi was the first ever Urdu film to celebrate a Golden Jubilee. Dulla Bhatti (1956), Mahi Munda (1956) and Yakke Wali (1957) were the highest-grossing Punjabi films of the time. Sudheer's Yakka Wali (1957) was the first blockbuster Punjabi film. Sudhir was the hero of action film Baghi (1956), the first Pakistani film to be shown in China. He was an action films hero, but he appeared as Hatim Tai in Hatim (1956), as Prince Saleem in the famous film Anarkali (1958), as Mirza Jat in the film Mirza...

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