Kamran Pasha

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Kamran Pasha is a Hollywood screenwriter, director and novelist. He currently serves as a producer and writer on NBC's Bionic Woman.[1] Previously, he served as a co-producer and writer for Sleeper Cell, Showtime Network's terrorism drama.[2] Sleeper Cell was nominated for the Golden Globe for Best Miniseries in 2005[3] and for an Emmy for Best Miniseries in 2006.[4]

Pasha sold his first two novels to Simon & Schuster in 2007. The books are entitled Mother of the Believers, a historical epic that follows the birth of Islam from the eyes of Prophet Muhammad's teenage wife Aisha, and Shadow of the Swords, a love story set amidst the showdown of Richard the Lionheart and Saladin during the Third Crusade.[5]

Pasha wrote his first video game for hip hop artist 50 Cent in 2008. The game, entitled 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand, is the sequel to the bestselling title 50 Cent: Bulletproof and is being distributed by Vivendi Games.[6]

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[edit] Early career

Pasha was born in Karachi, Pakistan and immigrated to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Brooklyn, New York, in the predominantly Hasidic Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park.[7] He attended Stuyvesant High School in New York, graduating in 1989. He went on to Dartmouth College,[8] where he majored in comparative religion[7][9] and served as an editor of the college newspaper, The Dartmouth.

After graduating, Pasha worked as a journalist for the Wall Street publisher Institutional Investor and the Knight Ridder financial newsire. During his tenure as a reporter, he interviewed international leaders such as Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres, Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori.[7]

He left the journalism world in 1996 and attended Cornell Law School.[10] He subsequently enrolled in the MBA program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and graduated with a joint law/business degree in 2000.[11]

[edit] Move into film industry

Pasha briefly worked as an attorney at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in filmmaking. He attended the MFA Producers Program at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and graduated in 2003.[12]

His first television writing job was as a staff writer on UPN's remake of the classic series The Twilight Zone.[13]

In 2003, Pasha set up his first feature film project, an historical epic on the love story of the Taj Mahal, at Warner Brothers Pictures.[14] He subsequently wrote a screen adaptation of the Japanese anime Kite in collaboration with director Rob Cohen and producer Anant Singh.[15] He has also written screen adaptations of the Japanese horror film Ghost Actress by director Hideo Nakata, and adapted Deepak Chopra's novel Soulmate.[16]

Pasha spent two years as a writer and co-producer for the Emmy and Golden Globe nominated Sleeper Cell. In 2007, he signed on as a producer of NBC's Bionic Woman.[17]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Kamran Pasha. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved on 2007-05-02..
  2. ^ Smith, Lynn. "Showtime's 'Sleeper Cell' brings terrorism home", The Boston Globe, 2005-07-31. Retrieved on 2007-05-02. 
  3. ^ 63rd Golden Globe Awards Nominations. Hollywood Foreign Press Association (2005-12-13). Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
  4. ^ Levin, Gary. "Emmy barely budges from nomination rut", USA Today, 2006-07-06. Retrieved on 2007-05-02. 
  5. ^ Reading the Past. ReadingThePast.Blogspot.Com. Retrieved on 2007-11-10..
  6. ^ 50 Cent Is Back. Fox Business Network (2008-03-27). Retrieved on 2008-04-09.
  7. ^ a b c BIOS. Network of South Asian Professionals – Washington, D.C.. Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
  8. ^ dartmouth class of '93. Dartmouth College (2005-08-12). Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
  9. ^ HONORS THESES IN RELIGION: 1975-2006 (PDF). Dartmouth College. Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
  10. ^ Cornell Law School Student Email Addresses. Cornell Law School. Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
  11. ^ Interesting Links. Tuck2000.com (2006). Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
  12. ^ Immigrants of the Week. Immigration Daily (2008-02-19). Retrieved on 2008-04-09.
  13. ^ Kamran Pasha. TV.com. CNET Networks, Inc. (2007). Retrieved on 2007-05-02.
  14. ^ Dhar, S. "Hollywood turns to India for inspiration", Asia Times Online, 2003-06-18. Retrieved on 2007-05-02. 
  15. ^ "Scribe Hired For Rob Cohen's 'Kite' Adaptation", KillerMovies, 2004-01-20. Retrieved on 2007-05-02. 
  16. ^ "SOULMATE", Artsmart, 2003-09-24. Retrieved on 2007-05-02. 
  17. ^ Variety Staff. "The Bionic Woman", Variety, Reed Business Information, 2007-09-21. Retrieved on 2007-10-17. 

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