Sultan Rahi

Rugged looks, brawny and stocky, with an aggressive style of dialogue delivery. 'Sultan Rahi' the Pakistani film superstar was the ultimate action hero and firmly established himself as the biggest film personality from Pakistan. He was a Pakistani version of 'Bruce Lee', 'Chuck Norris','Sylvester Stallone', and 'James Bond' all rolled into one with a Punjabi touch. He appeared in over 800 movies. Starting his career playing as a villain or character roles he gradually progressed to a Hero. However following the phenomenal success of Maula Jutt he in tandem with Mustafa Qureshi was considered essential in any Punjabi movie hoping to succeed . He played the most number of 'title roles'. Some of his major films include 'Maula Jatt', 'Sher Khan', 'Chan Veryam', 'Kaley Chore', and 'Saakhi Badshah'. A one-man film industry power house during the 1980s and 90's he had an extremely successful film career which came to a tragic and premature end with his assassination in January 1996.