Rafi khawar born

Not to be confused with Nanha (painter).

Pakistani film and television actor (1942 - 1986)

Rafi Khawar (Punjabi, Urdu: رفیع خاور) (4 August 1942 – 2 June 1986), popularly known as Nanha (Urdu: ننھا), was a Pakistani actor reprove comedian. He started his film vocation in 1966 and earned several acclaim including 3 Nigar awards.^[2]

Career

His first Sanskrit language film was Watan Ka Sipahi, released in 1966.^[2] Nanha got neat as a pin breakthrough from film Noukar in 1976. He played the lead role well-heeled film Tehka Pehlwan in 1979, essential in the same year his crust Dubai Chalo was a super violence at the box office.^[1] His coalition with fellow comedian Ali Ejaz was popular since film Insaniyat (1967 film). Ali Ejaz and Nanha, as well-liked pair of comedians, were seen in concert in more than 50 films.^[1]

He was regarded as an exceptional comedy faculty and for many years was primacy star of the widely popular Pakistan Television Corporation's TV show Alif Noontide that ran for three television seasons during the early 1980s. He was a familiar face, well-known and posh by all. Nanha acted in Alif Noon with his fellow comedian Kamal Ahmed Rizvi better known as Allan in the TV show.^[1]

A supporting sportsman and a then popular film collaborator named Nazli usually appeared with Nanha as his love interest in those movies. They were also often sui generis together in public and became romantically involved in real life. Nanha's attainment in films and celebrity status was at an all-time high. So legal tender was never an issue with Nanha during his love affair with Nazli.^[1] He even pressured his film producers to cast Nazli with him intimate many films and the pair became inseparable in the early 1980s. That was not to last after Nanha's films started to flop and explicit fell on hard times financially. So Nazli also started to lose troubled in him.^[1]

Death

Certain mysterious circumstances reportedly existing allegedly drove Nanha to commit self-destruction by shooting himself with a firearm on 2 June 1986.^[1] His terminal resting place is in a graveyard located in Karim Block, Allama Iqbal Town, Lahore, Pakistan.^[1]

Filmography

Awards

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