Two weeks earlier Waheed Murads 23rd death anniversary was observed with great honour to the departed soul. After the partition, Murads family returned to their ancestral home in Sialkot at Chowk Shahbaz Khan from Calcutta. A well-dressed young lad with dark complexion appeared at the Connolly park cricket ground for a few days. He could not converse in Punjabi or in Urdu as it appeared to all of us that he could talk in English instead. He was very polite and utterly well-behaved; quite contrary to a young Punjabi-Sialkoti boy. Sometimes during the net practice, he used to ask permission to bowl or to take the ball. The boys name was Waheed Murad who had an Anglo-Indian mother from Calcutta and his father Mr Murad was from Sialkot. Very soon, the family moved to Karachi for a permanent settlement there. Some 15-years later, the same Waheed Murad became an actor and a film-producer and was respectfully known as the chocolate hero. Whatever happened to him at the end of his life, I have nothing to say about that but one thing I do know that the famous chocolate hero is buried in a Gulberg graveyard quite near to the actor Zebas house. He was a part of the golden age of Pakistani cinema and we should honour our past icons.
AKHTAR MIRZA
Lahore
