Hamza Ali Abbasi

Hamza Ali Abbasi (born 23 June 1986) is a Pakistani actor and director. He is best known for his roles as Afzal in the drama serial Pyarey Afzal and as Salahuddin in the drama serial Mann Mayal (2016).

In 2013, he appeared in Main Hoon Shahid Afridi and Waar, for which he received the Best Star Debut Male and Best Supporting Actor awards at the 1st ARY Film Awards. In 2022, he played the main antagonist Noori Natt in The Legend of Maula Jatt.

Early life and education Abbasi was born on 23 June 1986 in Multan into a Punjabi family of civil servants to Major (Retd) Mazhar Ali Abbasi, an army officer, and Begum Nasim Akhtar Chaudhry, a former judge and politician affiliated with the Pakistan Peoples Party. His sister Dr. Fazeela Abbasi is a dermatologist. His maternal cousin Areej Chaudhary is also an actress.

He gained his Bachelor's in International Relations from the United States and his Master's in the same subject from the Quaid-e-Azam University. While in the United States he also studied film-making.

He also passed the CSS exams and was working as a civil service officer in the police group before abandoning the job to concentrate on his passions, film-making and acting.

Career Abbasi started his career in 2006 as a theatre actor with a play titled Dally in the Dark.

Abbasi made his directorial debut with the feature film Mud House and the Golden Doll, released in 2011, which described as a simple story about simple people.

In December 2020, Abbasi announced that he was writing a book on religion. In August 2024, he released that book, My Discovery of Islam, God & Judgement Day.

Personal life

Abbasi married painter and actress Naimal Khawar in 2019.

Abbasi was born a Muslim, then for a while became an atheist but now identifies as Muslim again. He is affiliated with the Farahi school of thought and studied in Dallas under Javed Ahmad Ghamidi.

Abbasi was a supporter of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, and he was elected as the cultural secretary of the party in January 2018. However, he resigned from this role in April of the same year because he felt that his movies did not represent Pakistan's culture well.

In 2018, he exposed journalist and former wife of Imran Khan, Reham Khan, by revealing the manuscript of her book beforehand. Reham Khan claimed to have been threatened directly by Abbasi via emails, but he denied these allegations. He believed that Reham Khan's claims were an attempt to tarnish his reputation due to his close relationship with Imran Khan.

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