The trend-setting Pakistani film actor, the late Waheed Murad, was not an unknown man even when he hadn’t made it big in the film industry.
A black and white photograph of his marriage was carried by this newspaper on Sept 18, 1964 captioned: Waheed Murad, son of Mr and Mrs Nisar Murad, was married (Sept 17) to Salma Maker, daughter of the late Mr E. H. A. Maker, and sister of Mr Tahir Maker at the YMCA ground.
The caption also read that the wedding was attended by a large number of businessmen, industrialists and high government officials. Both he and his wife belonged to socially well-known families.
Apart from his impressive acting skills, Waheed Murad was famous for his hairstyle which was one of the reasons for him getting the sobriquet of Chocolaty Hero.
Interestingly, the same week, Sept 16, the Pakistan National Hairdressers Federation was in the news, but for a different reason. The federation’s president appealed to the authorities to withdraw the geography book prescribed for Class III students in District Bannu in which barbers, washermen, butchers etc had been termed low-caste people.
