Munawwar Saeed is one of the most experienced television and film actors of Pakistan. He had started his showbiz career in 1967 from Pakistan Television (PTV), the only state owned television channel of Pakistan at that time. Just after starting showbiz career, Munawwar Saeed had proved himself as a dedicated and talented actor.
He has the ability to easily adapt the role during acting so that the viewers can feel it a real character, and this is the main reason behind his success in the television and film industry.
The family of Munawwar Saeed migrated to Pakistan in 1960 from India, due to which he had left Aligarh University of India in which he was receiving Engineering education. He came to Karachi along with his family and completed his engineering education from Government College of Technology.
Then he started teaching in the engineering college in Karachi but due to the passion of acting, resigned from the post and leaved for Lahore to make his name in the television industry.
In the beginning of his acting career, he had acted in several popular dramas of that time during the 70’s decade including Taqreeb e Imtehaan by renowned writer Ashfaque Ahmed, Mirza Ghalib Bander Road Par, Akhara and Gandasa. He has also an honour to acted in popular patriotic play on the struggle of Moulana Muhammad Ali Johar named as “Azadi K Mujrim, on which he also got Graduates Award for his successful acting. He had appeared in more than 1000 television dramas yet, in which he proved himself as a successful veteran actor of Pakistani showbiz industry.
Besides of his successful television career, Munawwar Saeed had also appeared in more than 200 Pakistani movies throughout his career. He had started his film career from the movie Ghar Damaad, in which he appeared as a villain.
His villain character had so much attracted the viewers and he had been continuously offered the same character in the films. Due to which, he had fed up by doing the same role and finally left the film industry. Munawwar Saeed’s famous films were Deewangi, Anmol and Jogi.
Nowadays, he is associated with the television industry and work in limited dramas to maintain the quality of his acting. Recently on aired popular dramas of Munawwar Saeed are Khandan (On ARY Digital), Kaisi Hain Dooriyan (On ARY Digital) and Moorat (On PTV).