A super hit Child Star, actor and director

Mostly artist of world change their birth name into a dazzling and striking name due to so many reasons. Likewise in Indian film industry many artists altered their names like Dalip Kumar, Raj Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Madhu Bala, Dev Anand etc so before 60s this tendency is clearly observed here in Pakistan when we see Santosh Kumar, Sudhir, Darpan, Nadeem, Akmal and so many changed their real names to film oriented names. During same ear a star was born in a star family as Nazir Ali and once this star twinkled in the sky of celluloid it was also appeared as Ratan Kumar.

 

 

 

Early Life Ratan was the younger brother of renowned film director and producer and owner of “Films Hayat” Wazir Ali. Their father Abbas Ali was himself an actor who appeared with Dalip Kumar’s film Aan which was first colored film made under the banner of Mehboob Films.      Early Career  Ratan Kumar started his film career as a child star and factually the popularity he got as child star was much more adorable as compare to the period when he performed as lead / hero role in Pakistan. As child star he appeared in Boot Polish, Jagarti, Sargam, Nunhey Munney, Afsana, Abhagiyawan, Buhat Din Hoye and Begu Bawra.

Facts…..Ratan Kumar Real Name: Nazir Ali Addressed Name: Ratan Kumar Birth Date: NC Birth Place: India Father’s Name: Abbas Ali Ajmeri Brothers: Wazir Ali Years active: 1960 – 1965

Career as Child Star

At the time of partition family of Ratan Kumar had some standing in Indian film industry so they did not migrate to Pakistan. But in 1965 he migrated to Pakistan with his family, his father Abbas Ajmeri established a film production house named “Films Hayat” and Be-dari was the first film under this banner. The story of Be-dari was inspired from Indian film Jagarti and Abbas Ajmeri produced it with Shiekh Latif under the direction of Rafiq Rizvi (a.k.a Bapu) but it was presented with a much more treatment of emotional touch. Ratan Kumar played the same role that he had performed in Jagarti but this time he did it wonderfully and with the outstanding acting performance of Santosh Kumar, Anoradha, Ragni and melodious and emotional songs of Fayaz Hashmi with music composition of Fateh Ali Khan, all made this film a super hit film. Here it is mentioned that Prince Gulu who played another child star with Ratan Kumar in Be-dari also performed very well but we think this was his first and last film as he was never seen in any other films [1] 

After Be-dari, Ratan Kumar appeared in Masoom and played the role of brother of the lead heroine (Yasmin), Habib was the hero of the film in which once again Ratan Kumar impressed with his resilient acting performance. In his next film Wah Re Zamaney which was made under the banner of Films Hayat with the cast of Ejaz and Shamim Ara under the direction of Rafiq Rizvi, Ratan Kumar played almost the same role of his film Masoom and moreover this film proved to be his last film as child star.

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As Film Actor

So in his next film “Nagin” he appeared in lead role of a romantic hero with Neelo. Nagin was again a production of Films Hayat under the direction of Khalil Qaiser, Ratan Kumar played a double role (two characters one of Prince and another of snake (Sheesh Naag) who was converted into a human and entered into royal palace as fake prince). Neelo also appeared in Nagin in a lead role for the first time, Saqi played an affective role of sapera, Yousaf Khan, Husna, Rekha, begum Parveen, Nazar and Abbas Ajmeri (Ratan’s father) were in cast of Nagin. On the other hand both the characters played by the Ratan Kumar were superb and played a vital role in the success and making this film an all-time memorable film. The performance of Ratan Kumar and Neelo in Nagin made them a striking pair of that point of time so both of them appeared in many films like Allahdin Ka Beta, Neelofar, Hussan o Ishq and Barat which was his own production as well.

In his other films Taj o Talwar, Sher e Islam (Laila as heroine), Ghazi Bin Abbas (Husna), Chhoti Ammi (Rani performed as heroine and Wazir Ali directed this film under Films Hayat banner), Sumera (with Zeba and it was directed by M. S. Dar the father of Aslm Dar), Clerk (directed by Khalil Qaiser), Do Ustad (Rafiq Rizvi Bapu) and Raza Mir’s Aasra was his last film which was released in February 27th 1969 and Shabnum, Mohammad Ali, Rozina, Ratan Kumar, Nabila, Saqi, Rangeela, Sultan Rahi, Chham Chham and Mustafa Qureshi. Other than the acting performance Ratan Kumar also directed a film named Dastan which was produced by his brother Wazir Ali. Ratam Kumar played the lead role with Ghazala and it was released June 6th 1969. After these films probably he stopped appearing in films and subsequently migrated to United States of America.

  

 

 

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