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Zarqa (1969)
Directed by Riaz Shahid
Overview
It is based on the life of Zarqa, a Palestinian dancer girl and a freedom activist, who killed herself for the liberation of Palestine involving Israeli-occupied territories and Palestinian liberation movement. It also addresses a real event of Neelo (The Actress) when she was forcibly invited by Nawab Malik Amir Mohammad Khan, the governor of West Pakistan to his office to perform a stage dance during the 1965’s official visit of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi to Pakistan.
Length 145 minutes
Actors
Neelo | Ejaz Durrani | Allauddin | Abdul Karim Baloch | Fomi | Fazal Haq | Ilyas Kashmiri | Nasira | Aslam Pervaiz | Agha Talish | Zulfi | Yusuf Khan