Do Ansoo

Do Ansoo
دو آنسُو
Directed byAnwar Kamal Pasha
Murtaza Gilani (assistant director)
Written byHakim Ahmad Shuja (story)
StarringM. Ajmal
Allauddin
Gulshan Ara
Himalaywala
Asif Jah
Santosh Kumar
Sabiha Khanum
Shah Nawaz
Shamim Bano
Music byMubarak Ali
Distributed byNobahar Films
Release date
  • 7 April 1950 (1950-04-07)
CountryPakistan
LanguageUrdu

Do Ansoo, (Urdu: دو آنسُو; Two Tears) is a Pakistani film made in 1949 and released on 7 April 1950.[1][2] Starring Santosh Kumar, M. Ajmal, Sabiha Khanum and Allauddin, it was the first directorial success of director Anwar Kamal Pasha. The story of the film was adapted from the novel of Pasha's father Hakim Ahmad Shuja, Baap Ka Gunah (transl. Father's Sin).[3]

The music was composed by Mubarak Ali. Do Ansoo became an instant hit and Sheikh Lateef's Naubahar Films, as a result, got some recognition due to the film's success.[2] Do Ansoo attained a 25-week viewing after being released on 7 April 1950, rendering it the first ever Urdu language film to celebrate a silver jubilee in the new Pakistani film industry.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b COVER STORY: Trouble in tinsel town Dawn (newspaper), Published 17 December 2008, Retrieved 30 June 2021
  2. ^ a b c "Do Ansoo film review". Cineplot.com website. Archived from the original on 15 September 2019. Retrieved 3 February 2022.
  3. ^ Salma Siddique. Evacuee Cinema: Bombay and Lahore in Partition Transit, 1940–1960. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1009151207.