Adeeb

Muzaffar Adeeb (1926 – 26 May 2006), known mononymously as Adeeb, was a Pakistani

Although he worked in minor roles in his initial career, it was Zia Sarhadi's Footpath (1953) that gave him his first breakthrough role opposite Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari and Anwar Hussain (Nargis's brother). He worked in 30 films during his stay in India including Mehndi, Pak Daman (1956) and Jung, before migrating to Pakistan in 1962, on the insistence of director Akbar Ali Akku and actor/director Iqbal Yusuf, son of Adeeb's close friend, director S.M. Yusuf. He settled in Karachi and later moved on to Lahore in search of roles which kept pouring in from the 1960s until his last film – Syed Noor's super-hit Majajan (2006).

In an era when on-screen villainy in Pakistani films was ruled by good looking villains such as

In the coming years, he became a close friend of Mohammad Ali and the two acted in numerous successful films such as Kaneez (1965 film), Aadil (1966) and Baghi Sardar (1966), Hatim Tai (1967), Mahal (1968), Naaz (1969), Aansoo Ban Gaye Moti (1970), Dushman (1974), Shirin Farhad (1975), Haider Ali (1979), Josh, Sangram (1981), Zanjeer (1986) with Rocky Dada being their last film together in 1987.^[2]

He was at ease in both

Adeeb married actress Tani Begum but later they both filed for divorce citing irreconcilable differences but remained on good terms.^[3]

Death

Adeeb died on May 26, 2006, at the