Badar Munir (1940 – 11 October 2008) was a Pakistani film actor. Originally from Madyan^[1] in the state of Swat, he starred in over 732 Pashto, Urdu and Punjabi language films from 1969 to 2008.^[1]

Badar Munir was raised with a religious background in Swat. He completed his basic elementary school education there and then came to Karachi.^[1]

Before joining films, Badar Munir used to drive Rikshaw on Karachi streets. Then he got a job as a lighting technician on actor Waheed Murad's recommendation in a Karachi film studio.^[2] He was introduced by Waheed Murad to the film industry in 1970. His first movie was Yousuf Khan Sher Bano (1970), with Yasmin Khan as the heroine.^[2] This Pashto language film was the first film of Pakistan film industry in this language in 1970.^[1] In 2016, city of Karachi has the largest urban population of Pashto-speaking people in the world, larger than even in Peshawar, Kabul, Quetta and Kandahar.^[2]

Before his death, Badar Munir had been suffering from kidney and diabetes problems for the past 5 years. He had a paralysis attack a few years ago. Two days before his death, he had a heart attack and was hospitalized but later died on 11 October 2008.^[1]

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