Bilal Maqsood held a live meeting with his dad Anwar Maqsood, prestigious scholarly figure. During the meeting, Anwar examined the province of Pakistani TV today.
On why he doesn’t compose for TV any more, Anwar said, “I was once posed a comparative inquiry. I said that nobody is composing. Ashfaq Sahab isn’t composing, Bano Qudsia isn’t composing, Munoon bhai isn’t composing, Intizar Hussain isn’t composing. The individual reacted by saying that every one of them are dead at this point. I revealed to her that they have taken show with them. Presently there is no dramatization,” he said.
He then, at that point took a couple, inconspicuous hits at the present status of Pakistani TV serials noticing that nowadays you just see ads and names on TV, proceeding to disparage the titles of current shows. “Presently after such projects how might I compose shows,” he said.
While he conceded that the majority are attached to such dramatizations he additionally proceeded to specify how the youthful parcel don’t really like them, so, all things considered Bilal cut him off and changed the subject.
When inquired as to whether there will at any point be another Moin Akhtar, Anwar snidely answered, “Saad Rafique. Infact he is superior to Moin Akhtar, the manner in which he acts.”
Anwar then, at that point made a move to think back about Moin Akhtar. He discussed how he would, eventually, do however he wanted of the content. Anwar likewise facetiously portrayed Akhtar as “laalchi (eager)” pointing at his propensity for taking lines he thought would get the best crowd response, conceding that it would at last work and advantage the show.
The dramatist additionally reviewed the battle his family needed to go through after they moved to Karachi. “Achay logon kay hee halaat buray hotay hein (Circumstances consistently decay for the great),” he said.
Following their transition to Pakistan, Anwar’s dad died at the youthful age of 41, abandoning 10 children. The family was left in critical monetary imperatives subsequently.
He reviewed one case where he needed to penetrate an opening in his divider so his grandma could get the every day news announcement from the neighbors radio, as the family couldn’t manage their own.
He further discussed how he and his kin started functioning in their individual fields since the beginning – one sister looked for some kind of employment at Radio Pakistan, one began instructing while another began making dolls.
“We realized that these testing times will ultimately elapse in the event that we keep on buckling down. Our folks instructed us to not lie and cheat and simply be straightforward in our dealings. From that point onward, it didn’t make any difference to them what we was, it composing, painting, sewing or radio. Also, this is by and large what wound up occurring,” Anwar said.
Like his senior kin, Anwar had likewise started working at an early age. Strangely, his first revenue stream was neither from painting nor composing. All things being equal, the Loose Talk have acquired his first buck by selling cats.
“Our home feline had brought forth a couple of little cats. I cut out certain pieces from my sister’s pink gharara. Made strips out of them and attached to the little cats and afterward sold them as ‘Persian cats ‘ for Rs 5 each in an adjoining quarter. Around then Rs 10 were worth very much,” he thought back.
Beside selling cats, Anwar likewise made sleeve buttons and ties produced using old garments rescued from the swap meet at Lighthouse. His customer base incorporated probably the most eminent figures from media outlet at the time including film star Waheed Murad, father of Nazia Hasan, writer Sohail Rana, and entertainer Santosh Kumar among numerous others.
“Out of these, half actually owe me cash for the sleeve buttons and ties,” Anwar kidded.
Anwar likewise uncovered how a possibility experience with eminent craftsman Shakir Ali lead him to approach up painting more in a serious way. “I had made a drawing of my family on the dividers of our quarter in PIB settlement. Shakir Ali Sahab, who was a dear companion of my brother by marriage saw it during a visit. He advised me to add tone. I said I didn’t had any. So he brought a bunch of paints for me,” Anwar reviewed.
A couple of years after the fact Anwar’s first show occurred at the French Embassy. He discussed how Pakistani negotiator and Hilal-e-Imiaz Award victor Jamshed Marker purchased the entirety of his 32 artistic creations.
