Heera Aur Pathar

Heera Aur Pathar (Urdu: ہیرا اور پتھر) is a 1964 Pakistani Urdu black-and-white film. It is the first film of Waheed Murad as a lead actor. The film was released at Karachi's Naz Cinema on 12 November 1964, and completed 56 weeks at cinemas with 25 weeks at the main cinemas in Karachi. Waheed Murad introduced film director Pervez Malik for the first time in the Pakistani cinema world. Also he had introduced film editor, M. Aqeel Khan, who had later received the Nigar award for this movie for his work. It was a 'hit' film of 1964.[1][2]

Heera Aur Pathar
Waheed Murad and Zeba in Heera Aur Pathar (1964 film)
Directed byPervez Malik
Produced byWaheed Murad
StarringWaheed Murad
Zeba
Nirala
Ibrahim Nafees
Kamal Irani
Music bySohail Rana
Edited byM. Aqeel Khan
Distributed byFilm Arts
Release date
12 November 1964
Running time
approx. 3 hours
CountryPakistan
LanguageUrdu

Cast and film crew

Casting includes Waheed Murad, Zeba, Nirala, Ibrahim Nafees and Kamal Irani. Waheed Murad played the role of a gadha gari wala (Donkey cart owner). This film is based on his innocent love with Zeba. At that time, the film attracted many Indian cinema-goers to see this film. Waheed Murad won Nigar award as the best actor of 1964. Heera Aur Pathar proved to be a lucky film for all of the film cast and the production crew, as it gave breakthroughs to the careers of Waheed Murad, Pervez Malik, Sohail Rana, M. Aqeel Khan and Zeba.[3]

Music

The music of the film was composed by Sohail Rana.[3] Sohail earned plaudits from his fans for the composition of Mujhay tum say mohabbat hai.... Although, he did not earn a Nigar Award for this film. The songs were written by Masroor Anwar and Mauj Lakhnavi. Playback singers are: Khursheed Nurali (Sheerazi) Ahmed Rushdi, Najma Niazi, Khursheed Begum, Saleem Shahzad, Mala, Wasim Farooqui and Talat Siddiqui.

Songography
  • Mujhay tum se mohabbat hai... by Ahmed Rushdi and Najma Niazi[4]
  • Gori simti jaye sharam se... by Ahmed Rushdi
  • Aaj mujhe kya hua... by Najma Niazi
  • Rahey himmat jawan apni... by Khursheed Nurali (Sheerazi) and Saleem Shahzad
  • Ja ja rey chanda... by Mala
  • Mujhay ek larki se pyar ho gaya... by Saleem Shahzad and Talat Siddiqui[4]
  • Aao manaen picnic... by Waseem Farooqui and Khursheed Begum

Awards

Film Heera Aur Pathar won two Nigar awards for the year 1964. Waheed Murad won award in the best actor category, and M. Aqeel Khan won the award in the best film editor category.[2]

References
  1. film Heera Aur Pathar (1967) on cineplot.com website Retrieved 26 December 2018
  2. List of Nigar Awards (1964) on Motion Pictures Archive of Pakistan (Mpaop) website Retrieved 26 December 2018
  3. film Heera Aur Patthar (1964) on Complete Index To World Film (CITWF) website Retrieved 26 December 2018
  4. film soundtracks of Heera Aur Patthar (1964) on IMDb website Retrieved 26 December 2018
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