Mazhar Kaleem

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Mazhar Kaleem
Born: July 22, 1942
Kiri Afghanan, Multan, Pakistan
Occupation: Lawyer, Novelist, Anchorperson
Genres: Detective Stories
Website: www.imranseries.com

Mazhar Kaleem (Urdu: مظہر کلیم) is a Pakistani novelist and one of the most famous names in Urdu fiction writing after Ibn-e-Safi. Basically famous for Imran Series he has written lot of short stories for kids as well. He is a multi dimensional personality excelling in all the fields he has set his foot in. He is a successful lawyer, fiction writer and anchorperson of a famous saraiki radio talk show from Radio Multan,"Jamhoor-de-Awaz". He was elected as Senior Vice President of Multan Bar Council and is a very respected lawyer in Multan.His novels are so much intewresting which surrounds a great character IMRAN that is a man of all the qualities.

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[edit] Biography

Mazhar Kaleem was born on 22nd July 1942 in Multan. His father Hamid Yar Khan was a retired police Inspector. He belongs to a very well respected Pathan Family,"Muhammad Zai" in Multan who settled in Multan after migrating from Afghanistan in late 19th Century. His original name is Mazhar Nawaz Khan while Kaleem is his literary adoption, however he is now known as Mazhar Kaleem Khan only.

He studied in Islamia high school Multan from where he did his Matric and joined Emerson College (Current Government College) from where he did his graduation. He was a very good sportsman and a color holder in Basket Ball and Body Building from Emerson College. After Graduating he taught as a master in Government high School Daulat Gate for some time as well, however he left it to puruse more studies at University of Multan (Current Bahauddin Zakariya University) to do his M.A in Urdu Literature and L.L.B. He is a senior lawyer in Multan Bench of Lahore High Court.

Mazhar Kaleem is permanently based in Multan. He had two sons and four daughters, his elder son Faisal died at age 31.

[edit] Literary Work

[edit] Imran Series

Mazhar Kaleem acquired fame through writing on the famous Ibn-e-Safi's Character Imran Series in late sixties . Though after Ibn-e-Safi many writers tried to write Imran series but none survived beyond few novels except him. He has now written over four hundred novels and still going on. He has given many new characters to Imran Series and treaded various new topics in Mystery Novels like mystic crimes (Misaale Dunya) and Economical crimes (Kaghazee Qiyamat). In fact, the list of subjects is not easily surmiable. Almost every one who has grown up in Pakistan after 70's and had been fond of reading in young age has read his one or more novels. Many of them give him the credit as generating an interest in habit of reading through his Imran Series. Even now his stature has grown up to the level that copycats like Azhar Kaleem have started using names similar to him to sell their Imran series.

[edit] Stories for Children

Mazhar Kaleem has written a lot of stories for young children. He has introduced many characters like Chaloosak Maloosak, Chan Changloo, Aangloo Baangloo beside using Umru Ayyar & Tarzan in his stories. These stories are very popular in young children and written in his characteristic style to teach lessons rather than only narration of story. In fact his character Chan Changloo was used by other authors as well to write stories for children.

[edit] Writing Style

[edit] Strength

Though character of Imran was conceived by Ibn-e-Safi and made popular by him as well, however Mazhar Kaleem has given him new persona and style. The primary difference between both the characters which is often objected by Ibn-e-Safi's fans is that Imran has been turned into a superhero which he is not (in safi's novels). But that is the opinion of only a few die hard fans of Safi while majority of his fans have also liked his new shade. . However Mazhar Kaleem's style comes in the plot of the novel which is very strong and the suspense which is maintained till the end when Imran generally describes to his assistant Tahir as to how he did the job.

[edit] Weaknesses

Imran has more inclination towards Science in Mazhar Kaleem's novels than Safi's novels, which some times overshoots the rationality. In some novels he has got his mission accomplished with one phone call and deceiving the head scientist into doing something which he did not understood while Imran knew. However in one interview Mazhar Kaleem described that he has always depicted that Imran's hobbies are exercise and reading latest scientific research in all the fields and this is on purpose to incite scientific interest in the readers. Surely lot of fans in their letters describe how they got interested in science after reading the novels. He said my job is to spark the interest which he has generally been successful.

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Imran Series

Following is the list of books written by Mazhar Kaleem.

  1. Imran Ki Maout (Imran's Death)
  2. Ladies Secret Service
  3. Black Prince
  4. X-2
  5. Ankana
  6. Danger Land
  7. Red Point
  8. Black Mask
  9. Double Lock
  10. C Top
  11. Super Master Group
  12. Pakisia Club
  13. Red Flag
  14. Agent From Power Land
  15. Lancer Five
  16. Zinda Sayee (Living Shadows)
  17. Power Land
  18. True Man
  19. Diamond of Death
  20. Naskhir Mujrim (Undefeatable criminals)
  21. Maut ka Raqs (Dance of Death)
  22. Four Corners
  23. Silver Girl
  24. Karakoon
  25. Great Fight
  26. Red Chief
  27. Death Circle
  28. Golden Agent
  29. Special Mission
  30. Special Agent Brono
  31. Road Side Story
  32. Death Group
  33. Dark Club
  34. Shooting Power
  35. Jawana In Action
  36. Light House
  37. Lasilky
  38. Snake Killers
  39. Agrosaan
  40. Last Moment
  41. Smart Mission
  42. Fort Dam
  43. Hanging Death
  44. Fuog Task
  45. Karaoun Agency
  46. Red Zero Agency
  47. Ladies Mission
  48. Partin
  49. Saajan Center
  50. Red Power
  51. Ladies Killeres
  52. Power Land Ki Tabahi
  53. Pressure Lock
  54. One Man Show
  55. Super Agent Safdar
  56. Easy Mission
  57. Secret Service Mission
  58. Silver Hands
  59. Adventure Mission
  60. Jasoos-e-Azam
  61. Red Point
  62. Makartwo Sandicate
  63. Blue Film
  64. Gunja Bhikari
  65. Black Prince
  66. Agent From Power Land
  67. C Top
  68. Dark Eye (part 1 and 2 )
  69. Shudarmaan(part 1 and 2 )
  70. C Egal ( part 1 and 2 )
  71. Chief Agent (part 1 and 2 )
  72. Red Army ( part 1 and 2 )
  73. Red Army Network ( part 3 and 4 )
  74. Faban Socity

[edit] Stories for Children

[edit] Aangloo Baangloo Series

  1. Aangloo Baangloo
  2. Aangloo Baangloo Samundar Mein
  3. Aangloo Baangloo Paristan Mein
  4. Aangloo Baangloo kee Shadee

[edit] Chaloosak Maloosak

  1. Chaloosak Maloosak
  2. Chaloosak Maloosak aur Samundari Dev
  3. Chaloosak Maloosak aur Umru Ayyar
  4. Chaloosak Maloosak aur zubata Dev
  5. Chaloosak Maloosak Tlism-e-Hosh Ruba Mein
  6. Chaloosak Maloosak aur Chan Changloo

[edit] See Also

Imran Series Characters By Mazhar Kaleem

[edit] External links

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