Life Style of Ahad Raza Mir

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Ahad Raza Mir is a Pakistani Canadian actor, producer, singer, and writer. A leading role in the romantic drama Yaqeen Ka Safar (2017) proved to be a breakthrough for Mir. Mir's performance won him the Lux Style Award for Best Actor and as well as the Hum Award for Best Actor.In 2018, he made his film debut with Parwaaz Hay Junoon as a fighter-pilot and played the poet-politician character "Jameel" in mega period drama Aangan. In 2018, he debuted as a featured artist in the eleventh season of Coke Studio.Early life Ahad Raza Mir was born on September 29, 1993 in Karachi, Sindh. He is the son of Asif Raza Mir, an actor and producer, and Samra Raza Mir, a housewife. He has one younger brother, Adnan Raza Mir. Mir's father is a veteran actor and producer of Pakistani film and television industry; his paternal grandfather, Raza Mir (d. 2002),was a filmmaker who also served as cinematographer for the first ever Pakistani film, Teri Yaad (1948).His cousin Haroon Shahid is a prominent singer-turned-actor.Mir spent two years at Performing Arts High School,and graduated from the University of Calgary in Bachelor of Fine Arts.Career Career beginnings and stage roles (2010–2016) Mir started his career in 2010, before pursuing his education in Canada, with his father's production company A&B Entertainment. He played a brief role of Wasif in Hum TV's romantic-drama Khamosiyan.He then moved to Canada for his bachelors in BBA but later he changed his major to BFA to pursue his career in acting, he explained, "for as long as I can remember, acting is the only career that I've wanted to pursue in my life, although I was enjoying BBA but I realized half way through that I wasn't internally happy. I discerned that when you have a plan A, there's no point of having a plan B. There should be one plan and it should be your only goal, that's when I decided to make the switch and changed from BBA to BFA in university of Calgary."During his bachelors he started his career through stage, performing, directing and writing in several musicals in theatre groups around the Calgary. He played Tony in West Side Story in his university production of U of C Operetta Company and went onto perform recurring roles in plays such as A Picture with a Bullet, The Tempest, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo and Naughty But Nice; for the later he won the (now defunct) Calgary Theatre Critics’ Award for Best Actor Musical also known as The Critters.Mir wanted to move to Toronto, but instead decided to come back to Pakistan to work in films and television,"It was one fine morning when I got this wild idea of moving to Pakistan as I had not been there from over a decade. Ever since that decision, I've been quite lucky and very grateful to be accepted by the people here."