Google on Tuesday paid tribute to Pakistan’s legendary puppeteer and tv trade veteran late Farooq Qasier alias “Uncle Sargam” on his 78th birthday on October 31.
The search engine modified its doodle to depict “Maasi Museebtey” and “Uncle Sargam” — the 2 most iconic characters created by the puppeteer which turned family names all through the 80s and the 90s.
Qasier, a graduate and gold medalist of Lahore’s Nationwide Faculty of Arts, was the pioneer of puppet exhibits in Pakistan and began his profession with the kids’s puppet present Akkar Bakkar.
In the meantime, Kaliyan, Sargam Sargam and Daak Time, Sargam Time, Siyasi Kaliyan and Sargam are a few of his different in style works.
Nevertheless, it was “Uncle Sargam” and “Massi Museebtey” characters that rose to unprecedented fame and are actually a part of everybody’s childhood from these years.
The trade mogul, throughout an interview with Geo Information, mentioned that he was actually “by accident” introduced into the tv trade after Salima Hashmi, daughter of Faiz Ahmed Faiz and his instructor at NCA, supplied him to work within the tv trade, he instructed Geo Information in a 2017 interview.
Responding to a query relating to the downfall of the tv trade, Qaiser mentioned that the nation wanted music, high-quality arts and performing academies to organize the following technology to take the trade into the long run.
One other facet that the veteran artist believed was lacking right now, was that of the position and stature of academics who had been idolised again then.
After an illustrious profession spanning round 5 a long time, the esteemed artist handed away on account of cardiac arrest on Might 14, 2021.