Heera Aur Pathar

Heera Aur Pathar
Directed byPervez Malik
Produced byWaheed Murad
Starring
Edited byM. Aqeel Khan
Music bySohail Rana
Distributed byFilm Arts
Release date
  • 12 November 1964 (1964-11-12)
Running time
approx. 3 hours
CountryPakistan
LanguageUrdu

Heera Aur Pathar (transl. Diamond and Stone) is a 1964 Pakistani Urdu language black-and-white film.

It was the first film of Waheed Murad as a lead actor who also produced it. The film was released on 11 December 1964. 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]

Cast and crew

Waahed Murad and Zeba in a scene

Crew

  • Music: Sohail Rana[2]
  • Editing: M. Aqeel Khan
  • Camera: Nazir Hussain
  • Assistant Camera: Badar Munir

Music

The music of the film was composed by Sohail Rana.[2] 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
  • 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 Shehzad
  • Ja ja rey chanda... by Mala
  • Mujhay ek larki se pyar ho gaya... by Saleem Shahzad and Talat Siddiqui
  • Aao manaen picnic... by Waseem Farooqui and Khursheed Begum

Awards

Film Heera Aur Pathar won two Nigar awards for the year 1964:

References

  1. ^ "Top five of Waheed Murad's evergreen movies". Bol News. 23 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d e f "Heera Aur Patthar (1964)". Complete Index To World Film (CITWF). Archived from the original on 27 December 2018. Retrieved 28 June 2022.
  3. ^ a b "List of Nigar Awards (1964)". Cineplot.com website. 13 May 2010. Archived from the original on 10 October 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2022.