Personal life
Waheed Murad married Salma, the daughter of a Karachi-based industrialist, on 17 September 1964.[32][33] They had two daughters, Aaliya and Sadia, and one son, (Adil). Sadia died in infancy.
Awards and honours
Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Waheed Murad
On 2 October 2019, Google celebrated Murad's 81st birthday with a doodle on its homepage for Pakistan.[17][18] At PTV Awards in 2012 on June 11 at 17th PTV Awards tributes were paid to him and he was awarded PTV Pakistani Legend Award which was given to his son Adil Murad.[34] The Government of Pakistan named a street and intersection after him in Lahore on August 16, 2021.[35]
Waheed Murad (Urdu: وحید مراد; 2 October 1938 - 23 November 1983), also known as Chocolate Hero,[3] was a Pakistani film actor, producer and script writer.[4][5] Famous for his charming expressions, attractive personality, tender voice and unusual talent for acting,[4] Waheed is considered one of the most famous and influential actors of South Asia[6][7] [8] and has influenced the film industry in the subcontinent.[9][10]
Born in Sialkot, Pakistan, he graduated from the S. M. Arts College Karachi, and then earned a master's degree in English literature from University of Karachi.[11] He started his film career in a cameo in 1959 in the film Saathi when he was 21 years old. One of his films, Armaan, which was produced by him, was a great success.[12] Murad is the only actor of film industry to secure the highest number of platinum, diamond, golden and silver jubilees.[13] He mesmerized Pakistani nation during 1960s and 1970s more than anyone before or after and is considered to be evergreen chocolate hero of Pakistan's silver screen history. He acted in 125 feature films and earned 32 film awards.[14]
In November 2010, 27 years after his death, the Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari posthumously awarded him the Sitara-e-Imtiaz, the third highest honour and civilian award by the State of Pakistan, given in the fields of literature, arts, sports, medicine, or science.[15] [16] On 2 October 2019, Google celebrated Murad's 81st birthday with a doodle on its homepage for Pakistan, India and several other countries.[17][18]
Early life
Murad was an only child and grew up in Karachi.[19] His mother was Shireen Murad (a Christian from Bikaner who had converted to Islam),[20] and his father was Nisar Murad, a film distributor in Bombay, both of whom had migrated to Karachi before the partition of India (1947).[20] He did graduation from S. M. Arts College, Karachi, and then masters in English literature from University of Karachi.[11][1][21][22][23] His father was a Punjabi whose family belonged to the cultural elite of Sialkot.[24]
Murad's ancestors had migrated from the Bahmani Sultanate in southern India to Kashmir and eventually settled in Sialkot in the 18th-century. Where Murad's grandfather Zahoor Murad, an advocate and a social activist, adopted the surname "Murad" in 1887.[25] The Murads also claimed Turkish ancestry; claiming that one of their ancestors, Murat, was a soldier of Ottoman-origin serving in the Mughal Army who settled in Punjab.
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