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Zahur Raja — A Rough -Neck Guy!
Attractive Man With Animal Spirit: Actor In Love With His Wife
By: Hyacinth
He is a big husky fellow, this Zahur Raja with colossal biceps and a grip of iron. From his photographs (I had seen only those of his face) I expected him to be slim and short, so when I saw him in flesh I was so busy being surprised I didn't notice he was reducing my right hand to pulp when he shook it. However, being almost a lady I wouldn't have yelped even if 1 had noticed it.
Zahur is rather a surprising young fellow. To begin with he arrived for his interview wearing the wild looking Pathan "kulla-lungi". I had hardly got used to it when he took it off and so released a shock of unruly black curls some of which fell forward on to his forehead in front and the rest disappeared into his collar at the back. Now Zahur who is 6' tall and weighs 13 stone
10 lbs. would be my idea of a perfect he-man if he didn't have those Shirley Temple curls and if he didn't pluck his eyebrows to the fine lines they are. He says he has eye-brows like twin tropical forests but even tropical forests would look better than his present spidery eyebrows.
Before I become too prejudiced I would like to say that Zahur has very fine features and is an extremely pleasant young man.
He was born in Abbottabad on July 7th 1918. He has one brother and two sisters. His father who was a Police Inspector owned an estate of 25 villages. Several generations ago the family head was entitled Raja by the Government and now Raja has become their family name.
Zahur stayed in Abbottabad until he had passed his Matric and then
Zahur Raja, handsome and ambitious.
he was sent to the Gordon Mission College at Rawalpindi. Zahur, who was an extremely mischievous student managed to stay in college for 6 years. He would still be there if he hadn't been heaved out by the Principal. Zahur just wouldn't study and his masters just refused to send him up for his BA. examination. But don't think this made our Zahur weep. On the contrary, he was quite content to be a duffer because in this way he could devote more time to sport. He was the best athlete in the college and played every game from football to pingpong. He was the champion discusthrower and an expert at putting the shot.
COWBOY IDEALS
But Zahur had another love besides sport and that was acting. When he was a little boy he used to see cowboy films and they made such an impression on him that he actually used to steal money from his father to buy toy pistols and peashooters for his gang of juvenile cowboys. So realistic were their cowboy adventures that once Zahur brcke his arm. He lived in a world of make-believe and longed to be an actor. When he was in college he belonged to the College Dramatic Society and did so well that his Principal noticed his talent and in Zahur's final report wrote: "A very attractive and promising young man, but due to an exuberance of animal spirit he gets into trouble. Never
. . . he took the ■kulla-liatui" off and released a shock of unruly
black curls,"
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