Ratan Kumar

Ratan Kumar (19 March 1941 – 12 December 2016) was the screen name of the Indian born child artist who later migrated to Pakistan. He acted in Indian and Pakistani movies. He was born as Syed Nazir Ali Rizvi. He is best known for his work in films Boot Polish, Do Bigha Zamin (1953) and Jagriti (1954).

He played a young boy's role in many Pakistani films later. Nagin (1959) was the first Pakistani film he played a lead actor opposite Neelo as the lead actress. He had a long history of illness, though. In 1996, his lungs had collapsed twice in the same year. When they collapsed the third time in 2000, he was left paralyzed and went into a coma for eight days. Then he recovered in four to five months and became somewhat normal again. His survivors include 2 sons, a daughter and seven grandchildren. Nagin (1959)- as a lead actor for the first time. A successful Golden Jubilee film at the box-office Clerk (1960) Aladdin Ka Beta (1960) Do Ustaad (1960) Sher-e-Islam (1961) Taj Aur Talwar (1961) Aasra (1969) Dastaan (1969)