Qadri was born Bashir Ahmad in a small village 'Raja Tamoli' near Gujranwala, British India on 9 April 1926.
He could not complete his education beyond the elementary or primary school due to poverty.
As a young man, he was eager to get an opportunity to try his luck in the then newly established Pakistani film industry after 1947.
In his later years of life, he had a stroke and was suffering from paralysis and lived mostly homebound.
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