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] 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.
[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.