A,J Kardar or Akhtar J.Kardar was The Director of The Film Jago Hua Savera being Produced By Nauman Taseer The Film had Lyrics Dialogue written By Faiz Ahmad Faiz.The Cameraman who Filed The Project was Famous Oscar Award winner Walter Lasslay. who was a Friend of A.j.Kardar
Indian Filmstar Tripati Mitra as Mala.
Zurain Rakshi as Mian
Jago Hua Savera was based on the Novel The Boatman of The Padma a Novel by Bengali writer Manik Banyopadhyay.
Just days before the film was to premier, the new government of Pakistan (under Ayub Khan) asked the film's producer, Nauman Taseernot to release the filmThe writer, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, was later imprisoned by the government for his communist beliefs.Actress Tripti Mitra and her husband Sombhu Mitra were also politically left-leaning, and members of the leftist Indian People's Theatre Association in the 1940s. When the film did premier in London, members of Pakistan's High Commission to the United Kingdom disobeyed instructions from the Pakistani government not to attend.
The film won a major award at the Moscow International Film Festival.
Zurain Rakshi as Mian
Akhtar J Kardar graduated from the Royal Naval Academy after serving through World War II as a Commissioned Officer. He served until 1945 after an attack on his ship the Ituara in the Gulf, where he was one of a few members to survive a torpedo hit.
A few years later, he went on to work as a journalist and studied Art and Cinematography at the London School of Arts & Goldsmith's College.
In 1959 he started making films and has since written, produced and directed three feature films and 59 documentaries. His work has been exhibited in several international film festivals. Some of the awards his work has received include The Boston Film Festival Award (1961), The Moscow Gold Medal Award (1959), The Golden Dolphin Award from Iran and the Nigar Award from Pakistan (1969).
He was the managing director for seven years of one of Pakistan's premier documentary film production companies; National Film Studios Ltd and retained as consultant for 5 years by the National Film Development Corporation of Pakistan.
During 1982 and 1985, he served as a Senior Lecturer in "The Theory & Practice of Film Making" in the Yarmouk University (Jordan) where he received an honorary Doctorate by the university.
Legendary Oscar Award Winner who was The Cinematographer of Film Jago Hua Savera.
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