Syed Kamal

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

Kamal was a popular film star of in the 1960s and the 1970s. Kamal, whose film Tauba became a success has a 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 advanced age. His most notable TV appearance is in hit TV drama Kashkol in which he played a wealthy businessman whose son (played by his real life son, Ghalib Kamal) becomes addicted to heroin.