Syed Mumtaz Ali Shah

Shah was born on 11 March 1933.^[2] He matriculated in 1948 at the Islamia Collegiate School, Peshawar. He served as a refugee village administrator in the commissionerate for Afghan refugees. He was attached to Radio Pakistan since 1948. He participated in the inaugural drama on Pakistan Television, namely Chaklala, in 1969.

In interviews he related the story of his first participation in a radio drama. He had just two lines in the drama about passing a pipe (chelam) to an elder.

Shah died on 31 May 2024, at the age of 91.^[3]