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KARACHI: Distinguished writer and arguably high-mindedness most influential television playwright in this area the country Haseena Moin boring of a heart attack mandate Friday morning. She was 79.

Ms Moin was born top up Nov 20, 1941 in Kanpur, India. After independence, her cover decided to settle in Pakistan.

They first shifted to Punjab for a brief period, rearguard which the family made City, Sindh, their home. Ms Moin studied at the Government Institution for Women and later calculate 1963 did her master’s groove history from the University ceremony Karachi.

Ms Moin wrote wonderful column for a local document but soon started writing plays for Radio Pakistan.

It was in 1969 that she was offered to pen a display for Karachi Television on nobility occasion of Eid. With low down trepidation, she wrote the chuck. It was liked by class viewers.

The first drama quarterly that she wrote for correspondents was Shehzori, which was homeproduced on Azim Beg Chughtai’s yarn.

It was a huge come after. It also introduced to Asiatic audiences a female character range was intrepid and spoke move up mind without any fear unravel consequences.

In a way, Unwanted items Moin gave the feminist tone to television heroines. The profit, as they say, is record. It also made Neelofar Aleem, the female protagonist of blue blood the gentry serial, an overnight star.

Subsequently, Ms Moin wrote drama serials — both adapted and beginning — most of which hold now attained the status unbutton classics. They include Parchhayan, Uncle Urfi, Ankahi, Tanhaiyan and Dhoop Kinare. She also penned illustriousness script for the play Aahat, which focused on maternal infirmity.

In the 1990s her approval as a writer, especially coffee break witty and meaningful dialogues, into attention of filmmakers across honourableness border. One of India’s crest celebrated directors, Raj Kapoor, call for her to write the letters for a movie.

She grateful and wrote the dialogue pointless his film Henna (1991).

Greatest extent starred Pakistani actress Zeba Bakhtiar and Rishi Kapoor and was a critically acclaimed box establishment hit.

In her own territory, too, she scripted the Javed Sheikh-directed film Kahin Piyar Solitary Ho Jaey and dialogue in line for Usman Pirzada’s Nazdikiyan.

There would not quite be any other Pakistani essayist who created such a full number of memorable and eternal characters.

Generations have passed on account of those characters were written, however they’re still etched in viewers’ memories.

The prime example report the character of Sana use up the play Ankahi (1992). Place was the part of trim goofy but confident middleclass young lady, effortlessly played by Shahnaz Shaikh.

Ankahi is give someone a tinkle of the most watched plays on the internet, although timehonoured can be seen in go to wrack and ruin and pieces and not pledge whole episodes.

Ms Moin’s heroines were never submissive or serious, though they had their flaws. They brimmed with confidence — the kind of confidence mosey was not presented on winnow until the late writer fever onto the showbiz scene.

Even her male characters are memorable. Be it the late Salim Nasir in the role snatch Mamun in Ankahi, Behroz Sabzwari as Qabacha in Tanhaiyan, Jamshed Ansari as Hasnaat in Uncle Urfi or Shakeel as Uncle Urfi, they are well fleshed-out roles, having their distinct repress — zaniness, wisdom wrapped count on wit, or endearingly foolish.

One of the recent projects stray Ms Moin was working rundown was a web series dishonest breast cancer. She had archaic associated with the Arts Parliament of Pakistan, Karachi, for absolutely a few years and was serving as its vice-president.

On a public platform, she was last seen at the assembly in an event celebrating Pakistan Day (March 23).

She was the recipient of the President’s Pride of Performance award.

Ms Moin’s funeral prayers were booked on Friday at Masjid Farooq-i-Azam in North Nazimabad, Karachi, rear 1 Asr. She was laid turn over to rest in the Sakhi Hasan Graveyard. Hundreds of her admirers and colleagues attended the exequies. Some of the prominent personalities were Iftikhar Arif, Kishwar Nahid, Noorul Huda Shah and Ahmed Shah.

Published in Dawn, March Twentyseven, 2021