Английская Википедия:Ahad Raza Mir

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Ahad Raza Mir (Шаблон:Lang-ur; born 29 September 1993) is a Pakistani-Canadian actor. After graduating from the University of Calgary he began his acting career. He is the recipient of several awards including three Hum Awards and a Lux Style Award.

Mir debuted with a minor role in the television series Sammi (2017), and earned recognition with the romantic drama Yaqeen Ka Safar which proved to be a breakthrough for him, earning him critical acclaim and a Lux Style Award for Best Actor. He starred in the 2019 ISPR based Ehd-e-Wafa which was a critical success and Mir was nominated for Best Actor Critics at the 20th Lux Style Awards.

Early life and career

Career beginnings and stage roles (1993–2016)

Mir was born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. He is the son of Asif Raza Mir, a veteran actor and producer of the Pakistani film and television industry. Mir's paternal grandfather, Raza Mir, was a filmmaker who also served as cinematographer for the first ever Pakistani film, Teri Yaad (1948). His mother Samra Raza Mir is a musician who was part of Pakistan's first female band, Symphony, formed in 1993. He has a younger brother, Adnan Raza Mir, who has launched his acting career in 2023 with the Ramadan drama Fairy Tale on Hum TV. Singer-turned-actor Haroon Shahid is his cousin.

Mir attended a Performing Arts High School, and graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.

Mir started his career in 2010 at age 17, playing a brief role as the son of Sania Saeed and Faisal Rehman in the Hum TV's romantic drama Khamosiyan. Mir started his career on stage, performing, directing and writing in several musicals and plays across Canada. Mir wanted to move to Toronto, but instead decided to go back to Pakistan to work in films and television.

Yaqeen Ka Safar and rise to prominence (2017–present)

In 2017, Mir started auditioning for Hum TV's production house MD Productions, and was cast as a leading role in Yaqeen Ka Safar where he played Dr. Asfand Yaar, a grief-stricken brother alongside Sajal Aly and Hira Mani. He then had a supporting role in the social drama Sammi opposite Mawra Hocane. His performance earned him Lux Style Award for Best Actor, and won three Hum Awards including the Hum Award for Best Actor.

Coming from an influential filmmaking family, Ahad was accused of nepotism. Responding to such claims Mir stated that he wanted “people to take [him],as an actor, very seriously and that he is “here to give Pakistan some good cinema and TV”.

In 2018 Mir made his Coke Studio debut as a featured artist in its eleventh-season, where he performed the song "Ko Ko Korina" with Momina Mustehsan. Their rendition of the classic song was widely criticized. Within a few days of the video being released on YouTube, it became the most-disliked video in the music show's history. That same year, Mir made his film debut with Haseeb Hassan's military-drama Parwaaz Hay Junoon, co-starring Hamza Ali Abbasi and Hania Aamir, which was released on Eid al-Adha. Mir replaced Osman Khalid Butt in a role of Flight Lieutenant Saad, who opted out due to his other commitments.

In 2018 Mir reunited with Sajal Aly and Mawra Hocane in Hum TV's Mohammed Ehteshamuddin-directed period drama Aangan where he played a poet, Jameel. The series was one of most hyped dramas of 2018 but it has been a huge disappointment which in result was panned by audience. In 2019, The Shakespeare Company,in a joint production with Vertigo Theatre in Canada, signed Mir to play Hamlet in their production becoming one of the first South Asian actor to play the role professionally in Canada. His performance won him the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama.

In the same year, he played an army officer Saad Faraz in ISPR based Ehd-e-Wafa opposite Alizeh Shah. He then starred Amaanullah Khan opposite Sajal Ali in suspense thriller Yeh Dil Mera. For both these performances, he received Lux Style Award for Best TV Actor - Critics nominations. Mir made his web debut co-starring Sajal Ali in Dhoop Ki Deewar as Vishal Malhotra. The series was released on ZEE5.

After a hiatus of three-years, He played a college student Adam Sultan in the Ramadan special comedy Hum Tum opposite Ramsha Khan. The series was praised across Pakistan. The same year, he made his Netflix debut with the series Resident Evil, as Arjun Batra. He next appear in British series World on Fire, as Rajib Pal.

Personal life

On 6 June 2019, Mir got engaged to his co-star and actress Sajal Aly, and married her in a private intimate ceremony on 14 March 2020 in Abu Dhabi. The couple allegedly got separated and eventually divorced in March 2022.

Media image

Mir was placed eighth in the list of most searched celebrities on Google of 2017 in Pakistan. Images Dawn named Mir in their "Standout performances: Male" list of 2019. Mir has been placed in the Hello Pakistan's HOT100 list, in the "Trailblazers" category, in the year 2020 and 2022. The actor serves as an ambassador for a number of brands including Nestlé, Mountain Dew, Xiaomi, Coca-Cola and Lays, among others. In 2021, he was appointed the brand ambassador of the Pakistan Pavilion, at the Expo 2020 Dubai. Mir was placed at 42nd position in Eastern EyeШаблон:'s "Top 50 Global Asian Celebrities" list of 2023.

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2018	Parwaaz Hai Junoon	Saad	Haseeb Hassan

Television serials

Year	Title	Role	Director	Network	Notes
2017	Sammi	Salaar	Saife Hassan	Hum TV
	Yaqeen Ka Safar	Dr. Asfandyar "Asfi" Ali	Shahzad Kashmiri
2018	Aangan	Jameel	Mohammed Ehteshamuddin
2019	Ehd-e-Wafa	Captain Saad Faraz	Saife Hassan
	Yeh Dil Mera	Amaanullah Khan	Aehsun Talish
2022	Шаблон:No wrap	Adam Sultan	Danish Nawaz		(Ramadan special)

Special appearances

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2010	Khamoshiyan	Wasif	Babar Javed	Special appearance
2023	Fairy Tale	Himself	Ali Hassan

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Director	Notes
2021	Dhoop Ki Deewar	Vishal Malhotra	Haseeb Hassan	Web series released on ZEE5
2022	Resident Evil	Arjun Batra	Bronwen Hughes	Netflix debut
2023	World on Fire	Rajib Pal		BBC One

Music video

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2018	Coke Studio	Featured Artist

Theatre

Year	Production	Role	Theater	Notes
2014	West Side Story	Tony	U of C Operetta Company
	A Picture with a Bull	Ruben	Common Ground Festival
	The Tempest	Caliban	Theatre Calgary
	Romeo and Juliet	Tybalt	The Shakespeare Company
	Naughty But Nice	Victor	Forte Musical Theatre Guild
2015	Macbeth	Lennox	The Shakespeare Company
	Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo	Musa	Search Tower Company
2019	Hamlet	Hamlet	The Shakespeare Company

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Category	Nominated work	Result	Шаблон:Abbr
2016	Calgary Theatre Critics' Awards	Best Actor in a Musical	Naughty But Nice	Шаблон:Won	Шаблон:Center
2018	Lux Style Awards	Best Television Actor	Yaqeen Ka Safar	Шаблон:Won	Шаблон:Center
	Hum Awards	Best Actor Popular		Шаблон:Won	Шаблон:CenterШаблон:Center
		Best Actor Critics		Шаблон:Nom
		Onscreen Couple Popular		Шаблон:Won
		Best Television Sensation		Шаблон:Won
2019	Betty Mitchell Award	Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama	Hamlet	Шаблон:Won	Шаблон:Center
2020	Pakistan International Screen Awards	Best Television Actor	Aangan	Шаблон:Nom	Шаблон:Center
	Hum Style Awards	Most Stylish Film Actor	Шаблон:N/A	Шаблон:Won
2021	Lux Style Awards	Best TV Actor - Viewers	Yeh Dil Mera	Шаблон:Nom
		Best TV Actor - Critics		Шаблон:Nom
			Ehd-e-Wafa	Шаблон:Nom
		Best TV Actor - Viewers		Шаблон:Nom

External links

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