Ahad Raza Mir (Urdu: احد رضا میر; born 29 September 1993) is a Pakistani actor who appears in Urdu television series. He has established a career in Pakistan and is the recipient of several awards including Lux Style Awards.[2][3]
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Born | (1993-09-29) 29 September 1993 (age 29)[1] Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan |
Alma mater | University of Calgary |
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Years active | 2010–present |
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Mir earned recognition with the television series Sammi (2017), and in the romantic drama Yaqeen Ka Safar which proved to be a breakthrough for him, earning him critical acclaim and a Lux Style Award for Best Actor.[4]
On 6 June 2019, Mir got engaged to actress Sajal Aly, and married her in a private intimate ceremony on 14 March 2020 in Abu Dhabi.[5][6]
In March 2022, there were speculations that the couple had parted ways after Sajal Aly reverted her name on Instagram. A couple of days later Aamna Ishani, a famous Pakistani journalist, confirmed that the couple were officially divorced.[7]
Ahad Raza Mir was born on 29 September 1993 in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. He is the son of Asif Raza Mir, a veteran actor and producer of the Pakistani film and television industry. Mir's paternal grandfather, Raza Mir, was a filmmaker who also served as cinematographer for the first ever Pakistani film, Teri Yaad (1948).[8][9] He has a younger brother, Adnan Raza Mir.[10][11] Mir attended a Performing Arts High School, and graduated from the University of Calgary with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.[12][13][14]
Mir started his career in 2010 at age 17, playing a brief role as the son of Sania Saeed and Faisal Rehman in the Hum TV's romantic drama Khamosiyan.[15] Mir started his career on stage, performing, directing and writing in several musicals and plays across Canada. Mir wanted to move to Toronto, but instead decided to go back to Pakistan to work in films and television.[16]
In 2017, Mir started auditioning for Hum TV's production house MD Productions, and was cast as a leading role in Yaqeen Ka Safar where he played Dr. Asfand Yaar, a grief-stricken brother alongside Sajal Aly and Hira Mani. He then had a supporting role in the social drama Sammi opposite Mawra Hocane.[17][18][19] His performance earned him Lux Style Award for Best Actor, and won three Hum Awards including the Hum Award for Best Actor.[20][21]
Coming from an influential filmmaking family, Ahad was accused of nepotism. Responding to such claims Mir stated that he wanted “people to take [him],as an actor, very seriously and that he is “here to give Pakistan some good cinema and TV”.[22][23][24]
In 2018 Mir made his Coke Studio debut as a featured artist in its eleventh-season, where he performed the song "Ko Ko Korina" with Momina Mustehsan.[25] Their rendition of the classic song was widely criticized. Within a few days of the video being released on YouTube, it became the most-disliked video in the music show's history.[26][27][28]
That same year, Mir made his film debut with Haseeb Hassan's military-drama Parwaaz Hay Junoon, co-starring Hamza Ali Abbasi and Hania Amir, which was released on Eid al-Adha.[29] Mir replaced Osman Khalid Butt in a role of Flight Lieutenant Saad, who opted out due to his other commitments.[30][31]
In 2018 Mir reunited with Sajal Aly and Mawra Hocane in Hum TV's Mohammed Ehteshamuddin-directed period drama Aangan where he played a poet, Jameel.[32][33]
In 2019, The Shakespeare Company,in a joint production with Vertigo Theatre in Canada, signed Mir to play Hamlet in their production becoming one of the first South Asian actor to play the role professionally in Canada.[34] His performance won him the Betty Mitchell Award for Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama.[35][3] [36][37][38][39]
Mir became an executive producer for the upcoming movie Kalasha, revolving around the culture of the Kalash people of the Chitral Valley.[40]
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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2018 | Parwaaz Hai Junoon | Saad | Haseeb Hassan | |
2021 | Kalasha | Producer | Farukh Turk | Filming[40] |
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2010 | Khamoshiyan | Wasif | Babar Javed | |
2017 | Sammi | Salaar | Saife Hassan | |
2017 | Yaqeen Ka Safar | Dr. Asfandyar (Asfi) | Shahzad Kashmiri | Lux Style Award for Best Television Actor |
2018 | Aangan | Jameel | Mohammed Ehteshamuddin | |
2019 | Ehd-e-Wafa | Saad | Saife Hassan | |
2019 | Yeh Dil Mera | Amaanullah | Aehsun Talish | |
2022 | Hum Tum | Adam Sultan | Danish Nawaz | (Ramadan special) |
Year | Title | Role | Director | Notes |
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2021 | Dhoop Ki Deewar | Vishal Malhotra | Haseeb Hassan | Web series released on ZEE5[41] |
2022 | Resident Evil | Arjun Batra | Bronwen Hughes | Netflix debut[42] |
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2018 | Coke Studio | Featured Artist |
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2014 | West Side Story | Tony | U of C Operetta Company | |
A Picture with a Bull | Ruben | Common Ground Festival | ||
The Tempest | Caliban | Theatre Calgary | ||
Romeo and Juliet | Tybalt | The Shakespeare Company | ||
Naughty But Nice | Victor | Forte Musical Theatre Guild | Calgary Theatre Critics' Awards for Best Actor in a Musical | |
2015 | Macbeth | Lennox | The Shakespeare Company | |
Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo | Musa | Search Tower Company | ||
2019 | Hamlet | Hamlet | The Shakespeare Company | Betty Mitchell Awards for Outstanding Performance by an Actor |
Year | Nominated work | Awards | Category | Result | Ref(s) |
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2016 | Naughty But Nice | Calgary Theatre Critics' Awards | Best Actor in a Musical | Won | |
2018 | Yaqeen Ka Safar | Lux Style Awards | Best Television Actor | Won | |
Hum Awards | Best Actor Popular | Won | |||
Onscreen Couple Popular | Won | ||||
Best Television Sensation male | Won | ||||
2019 | Hamlet | Betty Mitchell Award | Outstanding Performance by an Actor in a Drama | Won | |
2020 | Aangan | Pakistan International Screen Awards | Best Television Actor | Nominated | |
2021 | Yeh Dil Mera | Lux Style Awards | Best Television Actor - Viewers | Nominated | [47] |
Best Television Actor - Critics | Nominated | ||||
Ehd-e-Wafa | Nominated | ||||
Best Television Actor - Viewers | Nominated |
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