Changez Khan

{{short description|Pakistani historical film}}

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| name = Changez Khan

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| director = Rafiq Sarhadi

| producer = Hassan-ud-Din

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| writer = Hassan-ud-Din

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| starring = Asha Posley
Allauddin
Husna

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| music = Rashid Attre

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| released = {{film date|df=y|1958|1|24}}

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| country = Pakistan

| language = Urdu

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Changez Khan is a 1958 Pakistani historical film directed by Rafiq Sarhadi. It was based on Naseem Hijazi's novel Akhari Chattan. Hassan-ud-Din played the titular role in the film, who also wrote the screenplay and produced the film as well. The other cast includes Asha Posley, Kamran, Allauddin, Fazal Shah and M. Ismael.

Changez Khan is the earliest film of the Pakistani cinema of the historical genre.{{Cite web|url=https://www.express.pk/story/275888/|title={{Nq|پاکستان میں تاریخی موضوعات پر بننے والی فلمیں}}|date=2 August 2014|work=Express.pk|access-date=6 April 2023|archive-date=14 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140914000613/https://www.express.pk/story/275888/}} Its production had almost completed in 1956 but was released in 1958.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mrcvAAAAYAAJ&q=changez+khan|title=Rural Section Publications, Issues 113-120|author=Board of Economic Inquiry, West Pakistan, Lahore|year=1956}} The film features the popular and evergreen milli song of Inayat Hussain Bhatti, Aye Mard-e-Mujahid Jaag Zra, Ab Waqat-e-Shahadat Hai Aaya.{{Cite web|url=https://dunyanews.tv/en/Pakistan/455743-role-of-singers-in-1965-war-and-the-courage-and-valor-of-soldiers-nation|title=1965 War, songs that stimulated verve and pep among soldiers and nation alike|work=Dunya News|date=6 September 2018}}

Cast

  • Hassan-ud-Din
  • Asha Posley
  • Husna
  • Kamran
  • Allauddin
  • Fazal Shah
  • Rakhshi{{Cite web|url=https://dailytimes.com.pk/595320/rakhshi-the-first-vamp-dancer-of-lollywood/|title=Rakhshi — the first vamp/dancer of Lollywood|date=14 April 2020|author=Amjad Parvez|work=Daily Times (newspaper)}}
  • Ghulam Mohammad
  • M. Ismael
  • Ghulam Qadir
  • Mushir Kazmi

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