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First film super star of Indo-Pak sub continent

By Syed Mazhar Ali shah

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Gul Hameed was the first film superstar of the Indo sub-continent. Born in village Pir piai Nowshera in 1905 he didn’t live long and joined the great majority in 1936. It is the considered view of the film critics that Bollywood didn’t see the likes  of this handsome good good-looking, debonair film hero again. He had joined the police service and while on official duty in Lahore was spotted by the famous film director of his time A R Kardar who prodded him to work in his film and so started his film career. Those were the days of silent movies and his job took him to Bombay now Mumbai and Calcutta now Kolkata, which were also film centres of yore along with Lahore. Since it was the era of silent movies he started his film career in silent movies and made his mark by excellent acting in films like yahudi ki larhki, Heer Ranjha, Seeta and Chandar Gupt.  Very few people know that film Seeta in which he had worked was the first Indian movie to be given entry into film festival of Venice in 1934 where it was awarded with honorary diploma also.  He was working as director and script writer  for a film billed as Khyber pass when he was diagnosed with throat cancer in Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar where he  died.   He  did work in some talkies too.

He had fallen in  love with  his co- star, one Patience Cooper a film heroine of those days and after she embraced Islam and adopted the name of Sabira Sultana.  they entered into wedlock.  As  ill luck would have it, Gul Hameed was diagnosed with  throat cancer which was  incurable those days  and he died of it in 1936 when he was  barely  30.

He lies buried in a road side cemetery   near Amangarh, Nowshera.  What a pity that no TV  channel has not produced a special documentary on this legendary film personality hitherto.

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