Zia Mohyeddin
Nacimiento : 1933-06-20, Lyallpur, Punjab, British India
Muerte : 2023-02-13
Historia
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Zia Mohyeddin (born June 20, 1933) is a Pakistani actor famed for his voice.
He was born in Faisalabad, (formerly Lyallpur), British India in a Urdu Speaking Family. He passed his early life in Karachi. He was trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London from 1953-1956. After stage roles in Long Day's Journey Into Night and Julius Caesar, he made his West End debut in A Passage to India in 1960. He made his film debut in Lawrence of Arabia in 1963, playing the role of Tafas (the Arab guide who is shot by Omar Sharif for drinking water from the wrong well). He then made numerous TV and film appearances, and starred as Dr Aziz in the 1965 BBC television version of A Passage to India.
He returned to Pakistan in the late 1960s. There he founded and ran the PIA Arts and Dance Academy, and hosted his own TV talk show. Around this time he met and subsequently (in 1973) married the classical dancer Naheed Siddiqui. However after difficulties with the regime Mohyeddin returned to England in the late 1970s, shortly followed by his wife. During the 1980s Zia worked in Birmingham, Great Britain, where he produced Central Television's flagship multicultural programme Here and Now.
He resumed his acting career in Europe, appearing in small roles in various movies and television programs. He has since traveled the world giving Urdu poetry and prose recitations. In the late 1990s, Zia remarried, and had a daughter with his wife, Azra. In February 2005 President Pervez Musharraf invited Mohyeddin to act as Chairman of the new National Academy of Performing Arts in Karachi.
To this date, despite his growing age, Zia is still active among Pakistani media as a speaker and hosts several TV programs both for National and Private Channels. He is also involved in narrating some abstract short films and commercials
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Radio Announcer
As the sun sets on the British Empire, the British rulers of the Indian subcontinent prepare to divide the region into two independent states: India and Pakistan. For the diverse native population, freedom comes at a cost and ethnic violence sweeps the region. On the eve of Pakistani independence in 1947, Arastu Jan, a troubled and isolated native servant to a British master, takes a dose of poison and finds himself with ten minutes to record the confession of his brief lifetime.
Narrator
The film covers a story of mysterious loss of Pakistani submarine PNS Ghazi. She has participated in second and third Indo-Pakistani wars (1965 and 1971) and has been sunk in December 1971 nearby Indian coast.
Hashim
Dr. Gerald Bull era un genio en el diseño y construcción superguns. (Muy grandes cañones de largo alcance capaces de disparar más de 100 millas.) Cuando un plan de la CIA para exportar material restringido el uso de él fue expuesto, la CIA negó todo conocimiento y se fue a la cárcel. Más tarde fue liberado para ayudar a Saddam Hussein a construir una nueva superarma capaz de disparar más de 500 millas. Israel, al enterarse de la superarma, teme que sería utilizado contra ellos mismos.
Shehzada
Una pareja occidental sin hijos visita un santuario de fertilidad en Karachi dirigido por eunucos y desencadena un gran choque cultural.
The tumultuous events surrounding the sub-continent's partition in 1947 into India and Pakistan are re-imagined in Ken McMullen's complex and visually striking film. A lunatic asylum in the city of Lahore becomes a mirror image of events in the outside political world, with the same actors playing both inmates and rulers. Adapted by Tariq Ali and McMullen from famous Urdu writer Saadat Hasan Manto's short story 'Toba Tek Singh', Partition speaks for the countless millions that the usual British Raj films sweep out of sight. Released to mark the 60th anniversary of the partition of the Indian sub-continent, this is the film's first-ever release on DVD.
Timur Hussein
An idealistic former soldier helps unite and house ethnic minorities in a run down area of the east end
Mr. Lal
An insecure, aggressive widow of a tea garden manager reluctantly develops an affectionate relationship with an Indian housewife and her family.
Djamil
David y Anansa son un matrimonio de médicos que trabaja en un programa de investigación científica en un pequeño pueblo de África. Inesperadamente, ella desaparece, pero la policía no se esfuerza demasiado por encontrarla. Al parecer, ha sido secuestrada por Suleiman, un traficante de esclavos, para ser vendida a un príncipe árabe. Al no poder contar con las autoridades locales, que niegan la existencia de tal traficante, David busca la ayuda de organizaciones ilegales; entonces se verá envuelto en un sombrío mundo donde los rescatadores son tan despiadados como los traficantes de esclavos.
Hari
An English novelist travels to Bombay to watch one of her novels translated to film. She chases after the movie's leading man while the screenwriter chases after her.
Dr Aly Narayana
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
Farge
Extraterrestres del espacio exterior aterrizan en nuestro planeta en búsqueda de algunos esclavos dóciles que puedan reparar su nave. Para ello dominan la voluntad de la gente, de todos menos del Dr. Temple, que posee un trozo de plata en su cabeza. El doctor comprenderá el misterio de cómo los extraterrestres se adueñan de la voluntad de las personas y elaborará un plan interesante.
King Fedra
Varios ejecutivos de empresas petroleras han sido asesinados. El investigador de seguros Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond es enviado a examinar los casos. Todas las víctimas han sido liquidadas por unas implacables asesinas, las cuales desaparecen sin dejar rastro. Pero Drummond descubre que estas mujeres operan bajo las órdenes de un siniestro genio criminal, decidido a apoderarse de concesiones petroleras en territorios árabes que han quedado vacantes ya que sus titulares han sido eliminados. Ahora deberá correr contra el tiempo para salvar la vida del Rey Fedra, quien se encuentra en la mira de los asesinos.
Noori
Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.
Zobeir Pasha
A finales del siglo XIX, en Sudán, región bajo dominio anglo-egipcio, se pone en marcha un movimiento independentista acaudillado por "El Esperado", un visionario que proclama la Guerra Santa contra los infieles. Inglaterra envía entonces al mítico general Gordon para intentar restablecer la paz y el orden.
Luis, Guide of Paco
Una vez terminada la guerra civil española (1936-1939), Manuel Artíguez (Gregory Peck), un popular miembro del maquis, abandona España y se refugia en Francia. Veinte años más tarde, el hijo de su mejor amigo, atraviesa la frontera para pedirle que vuelva a España y mate a Viñolas (A. Quinn), un sargento de la Guardia Civil responsable de la muerte de su padre. Pero Artíguez, hastiado de todo, no atiende la petición del chico. Sin embargo, cuando la madre del guerrillero cae gravemente enferma, Viñolas aprovecha la ocasión para tenderle una trampa. Este film estuvo prohibido en España hasta 1979.
The Syrian
Tras quedar huérfano por un ataque aéreo sobre Port Said, durante la Crisis de Suez, un muchacho tendrá que arreglárselas para trasladarse a Durban, en Sudáfrica, donde vive su tía Jane, su pariente más cercano. En su largo camino encontrará de todo, incluyendo un viejo buscador de diamantes.
Tafas
Biografía de T.E. Lawrence. El Cairo, 1917. Un conflictivo y enigmático oficial británico es enviado al desierto árabe durante la Gran Guerra en la campaña de ayuda a Arabia contra Turquía. En el desierto, se hace amigo de Sherif Ali Ben El Kharish y pone todo su empeño en la ayuda a los árabes. Éstos creen que Lawrence es otro amante del desierto que ayuda porque cree que Arabia es débil, mientras que sus superiores británicos creen que se ha vuelto loco. Cuando los planes de Lawrence consiguen llevarse a cabo con éxito, comienza a ganarse enemigos.
President Rajan
"In Jan Carew’s explosive drama, Sammy Davis Jr gives a memorable performance as a proud but disillusioned revolutionary who aims to destroy the remnants of white colonial rule in a new African nation. The political themes explored remain incredibly prescient." - BFI
Zia Mohyeddin
Inspired by John Gielgud, veteran Pakistani actor Zia Mohyeddin ('Lawrence of Arabia', 'A Passage to India') recites readings from now fading Urdu literature every year. In 2010, he makes a deviation from his thirty-year tradition and reads solely from the work of one author - legendary revolutionary Pakistani poet Faiz Ahmed Faiz. As contemporary Pakistan devolves into violence and instability, Zia's readings of Faiz's poetry find new resonance and leads Zia on an introspective journey into his extraordinary past and uncertain future.
