HOLY RAVIOLI....you call these guys WAHEED MURAD's peers! You compare THEIR acting to WAHEED MURAD's....................... That's just like comparing REEMA to her peer JULIA ROBERTS OR SHAAN to his peer TOM CRUISE !!!
I don't understand your point at all... Reema and Shaan are Pakistani and Julia Roberts, Tom Cruise are American. whereas Waheed Murad and Qazi Wajid/Saleem Nasir, etc were all Pakistanis.
but yeah, it is unfair to the likes of Qazi Wajid, Saleem Nasir, etc. to compare them to Waheed Murad. Saleem Nasir was a real actor who performed many different roles. he played the effeminate Akbar just as well as he played the dignified Capt. Sarwar Shaheed or the magnificent Sultan Jalaluddin. same goes for Qazi Wajid. they played many different characters with ease and gave many unforgettable performances.
compared to them, Waheed Murad only played himself. Waheed Murad played Waheed Murad as do all "filam stars" in our part of the world. they're not actors... they're stars. and they're allowed to get away with it because the concept of filam in the subcontinent is juvenile and borderline retarded.
either way, I have nothing against Waheed Murad. he was a good looking man who obviously had a lot of fans. what I do have a problem with is this idea that the 60s and 70s were the golden period for Pak filam industry. the Pak filam industry never had a golden period. it was rubbish right from the start and that includes Waheed Murad, Mohammad Ali, Nadeem, etc. and it is still rubbish.