Sunday, March 29, 2009

Who was the best PTV actor?

During this weekend, I got a recommendation from a friend to watch PTV drama, Parchaiyaan, written by Haseena Moin and starred by some great names of PTV--- Rahat Kazmi, Talat Hussain, Shakeel and Saira Kazmi. It can be found on youtube with 41 ten-minute-apiece episodes. This stirred up a discussion among us:
" Can we enlist 10 best actors from PTV?
The discussion sounds futile specially in this modern era of fast track movies and fabricated star plus dramas. But if you have ever lived in that time of PTV dramas' frenzy when streets could easily go barren during the hour between 8pm and 9pm, this ranking makes meaningful sense.
There were some big names in PTV during the 70s, 80s and early 90s. Here is our list of best PTV actors.

  1. Talat Hussain
  2. Rahat Kazmi
  3. Shafi Mohammad
  4. Abid Ali
  5. Shakeel
  6. Qawi Khan
  7. Firdaus Jamal
  8. Tauqeer Nasir
  9. Hassam Qazi
  10. Jamal Shah

One can argue over the ranking, but in my view, these were the top ten actors from PTV.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Is that all you have to say after watching thsi gem?! i too discovered it a week back on youtube and was bowled over by the perfection of the dialogues, the quality of acting, the direction and espcially the fantastic music. i'm a classical music lover myself and have heard a fairly vast range but yet couldn't identify a couple of the pieces played.i've now downloaded it (via youtube downloader) so that i can watch it over and over again and get to grips with the dialogues (my urdu's not all that hot) . but why haven't you mentioned any women in your list? or created a separate one for actresses? intend to put in onto a disc and circulate it in the hope of raising standards. i know it's futile, but still....