About Mushtaq Gazdar
Lived 1940 – 2000 (aged 59–60). Mushtaq Gazdar was a film director, cinematographer, documentary film and film historian.
Mushtaq Gazdar (1937 – 15 November 2000) was a Pakistani film maker and cinematographer, who scripted, directed and produced around 190 short feature films, documentary films and newsreels on subjects including poverty-stricken women, especially those abused, bought and sold in open flesh markets, as well as helpless children. His daughter, Aisha Gazdar, worked with her father and became a short documentary film maker in Pakistan in 2010.
Books Pakistan Cinema (1947-1997) by Mushtaq Gazdar (published in 1997, Oxford University Press)
Awards and recognition Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan in 1992 Won 2 Nigar Awards for his short documentary films Won the grand prize at the Tampere International Film Festival in Finland for his docudrama 'They are killing the horse'
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Who was Mushtaq Gazdar?
cinematographer
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Mushtaq Gazdar was born in 1940.
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Mushtaq Gazdar died on 15 November 2000 in Karachi.
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Mushtaq Gazdar was a film director, cinematographer, documentary film and film historian.
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