Syed Kamal

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Syed Kamal (Urdu: سید کمال) is a Pakistani film and TV actor.

Kamal was a popular filmstar of in the 1960's and the 1970's. Kamal, whose film Tauba became a big success has striking resemblance with the Indian filmstar Raj Kapoor, and he is not evasive about this issue. He said once, "People used to mistake me for Raj Kapoor while I was in Bombay."

After retirement from films, he began acting in TV dramas at fairly old age. His most notable TV appearance is in hit TV drama Kashkol in which he played a rich businessman whose son (played by his real life son, Ghalib Kamal) becomes addicted to heroin.