M. Kumar

M. Kumar was born on Sep 23, 1903 in India. M. Kumar's big-screen debut came with Mahal directed by Kamal Amrohi in 1949, strarring Hari Shankar's Father (as Kumar). M. Kumar is known for Mughal-E-Azam directed by K. Asif, Prithviraj Kapoor stars as Emperor Akbar and Madhubala as Anarkali. The upcoming new movie M. Kumar plays is Shama which will be released on Jan 01, 1961.

Kumar was born in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. He belonged to a highly respected Lucknow families of Shia Syeds. His real name was Syed Ali Hasan Zaidi, but was affectionately called Mir Mujjan by relatives and close friends. He started his career in films from New Theatres, Calcutta. His first two movies were "Subah Ka Tara" and "Zinda Lash", in 1932. In these films, he played the second lead role, while the leads in both of them were Kundan Lal Saigal and actress Rattan Bai. In his third film, Pooran Bhagat, which also starred K. L. Saigal, he became popularly known as Kumar. His other films in India were Yahudi Kee Larki, Watan, Suhag, Shehr Ka Jadoo, Maa Ka Pyar, Mughal-e-Azam, Nek Parveen, Tarana, and Mahal. Kumar married a very well known actress of her days, Pramella, and both of them established their own film making house, called Silver House, making films like Naseeb, Jhankar, Barey Nawab Sahab and Devar.