Alamzeb Mujahid


Alamzeb Mujahid is a Pashto language film, stage, TV Actor and Director from Pakistan. He is one of the most well known personality in the Pashto Industry. He remained associated with Pakistan Television for more than twenty years and has done over 250 dramas as well as hundreds of stage and TV plays. Mujahid has a huge fan-following in Pakistan and neighboring Afghanistan. He belongs to Charsada, KPK and pursued a Masters in Pashto literature from the University of Peshawar before dropping out. He was kidnapped from Peshawar by unidentified militants in January 2009 and was kept in captivity for almost a week. Soon after his release, he held a press conference to announce his departure from the Pashto film industry. One of his most well-known role is "Janan", which he played in one of his Pashto comedy drama. After being a huge hit, people started recognizing and calling him by his characters' name "Janan". His other works include Palishe, Sargardan, palishe part 2, Mast Budha etc. He moved to Malaysia after his release.
Mujahid received PTV Best Actor award along with many others during his career.
One of his famous stage drama is Abaseen Program, with Nazar Muhammad where he played different roles in each episode to keep the society aware of certain people in the community.