ISLAMABAD – The fans of comedy king and legendary TV/film artist, Moin Akhtar, remembered him on Monday on his 68th birth anniversary.
Born on December 24, 1950, Moin Akhtar was considered as a comedian of extremely high standard in Pakistan with experience of entertaining his audience for long.
From theater to silver screen, Moin Akhtar’s work introduced nonstop laughter for everyone and became popular among the entertainment loving audience.
His attempts to avoid vulgarity in his humor rendered him a favorite amongst family audiences.
Akhtar was fluent in several languages, including English, Bengali, Sindhi, Punjabi, Memon, Pashto, Gujarati and Urdu.
He also took participated in several stage shows like Bakra Qiston Pe and Buddha Ghar Pe Hai with Umer Sharif in India too.
According to their fans on social media, “Moin’s comedies were not only the characters that brought life in comedy but he was real asset for maintaining the identity of comic life in Pakistani stage and TV”.
“Moin’s personality and skills are still a source of learning for the new artists and the Pakistani TV, Film and theatre industries can hardly produce such comedy maestros,” they said.
The comedies of Moin Akhtar are an inspiration for many young comedians to guide them with proper techniques, skills and styles. “Death of such an artiste is unable to make him dead in hearts of people where he will remain alive but the comedy industry and theater will be suffered as it lost main character of the comedy,” said Tauqeer Nasir, eminent actor and the backstage colleague of Moin Akhter while talking to APP.
“Moin Akhtar was an academy of learning comedy that become inspiration for many of today’s comedians,” Tauqeer Nasir said.
