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Hassena Moin Biography.
Moin was born in Kanpur on November 20, 1941.
Before this, PTV relied on novel-based scripts for dramas.
She was considered to be the best playwright and dramatist Pakistan has ever witnessed.
She was a Pakistani dramatist, playwright, and scriptwriter. She wrote several plays for stage, radio, and television. She was the recipient of the Pride of Performance award for her services to the performing arts in Pakistan. She wrote Pakistan's first original script Kiran Kahani aired in the early-1970s.
Education
She received her early education in her ancestral region and, after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, migrated with her family to Pakistan. She lived for a number of years in Rawalpindi, then moved to Lahore and, in the 1950s, settled in Karachi, where she graduated from the Government College for Women in 1960.
Master of Arts in History from Karachi University.
She got a Master of Arts in History from Karachi University in 1963.
Weekly column by the title of BHAI JAN for a local journal
Her yearning for writing was visible right from the time she was in the final years of her schooling, as from 7th standard, besides other school activities she got selected to write a weekly column by the title of BHAI JAN for a local journal.
Professionally
She wrote plays for Radio Pakistan Karachi's "Studio Number 9." Professionally, she took up educational pursuits and started teaching. She rose to the level of Principal. It was in 1969 that Iftikhar Arif, Head of the Script Dept. at PTV-Karachi Centre, called Moin and offered her the chance to write a play for the forthcoming EID. Hence came Eid Ka Jora with great success.
Famous dramas she wrote
Ankahi, Tanhaiyaan, Kiran Kahani, Dhoop Kinaray, Aahat, Uncle Urfi, Shehzori, Kohar, Des Pardes, Pal Do Pal, Aansoo, Kasak, Parchaiyan and Parosi. Other works include Mere Dard ko Jo Zuban Milay, Kaisa Yeh Junoon, Dhundle Raste, Shayad ke Bahar Aaye, Mohim Joo, Tum Se Mil Kar, Bandish and Zair, Zabar, Pesh.
Death.
انا للہ وانا الیہ راجعون
She diead on 26 March 2021.
