Arshad Mehmood | |
|---|---|
| Occupation(s) | Actor,musician |
| Years active | 1972 – present |
| Awards | Pride of Performance Award by thePresident of Pakistan in 2006 |
Arshad Mehmood is aPakistani actor,music composer, and a singer.[1][2][3]
He had started composing music forPakistan Television Corporation back in 1972.[4]
He later was the driving force behindEMI Pakistan. EMI provided the platform for Pakistan's biggest music artists during the 1970s and later decades. Arshad Mehmood served there as a music producer and a talent promoter. His role at EMI was so crucial that noted Pakistani music directorNisar Bazmi reportedly commented, "EMI Pakistan without Arshad would be a nonentity".[3]
Pakistan Television Corporation, all through most of his active career, used to ask him to produce and compose music for it. During that long period, he worked with many prominent Pakistani singers likeNayyara Noor,Tina Sani,Tahira Syed,Noor Jehan,Mehdi Hassan,Reshma,Mehnaz Begum,A. Nayyar andAlamgir.[3]
He had acting roles in Pakistani TV drama serials such asAangan Terha andDhoop Kinare,Khamosh Pani (Silent Waters) (2003) and the music composition ofghazals from the poetry ofFaiz Ahmed Faiz.[5] He knewFaiz Ahmad Faiz and learned a lot from him, important things like patience, rationalizing one's problems and being cheerful even in the face of adversity.[4]
In recent years, he has been teaching music atNational Academy of Performing Arts (Pakistan) (NAPA) in Karachi, Pakistan.[4] In 2019, he was serving as director programmes and administration at NAPA.[3][1]
