Irfan Khoosat

Irfan Khoosat (Punjabi, Urdu: عرفان کھوسٹ) (born 9 June 1952) is a Pakistani actor, director, producer and comedian.

[1][2] He is famous for his comic role as Hawaldar Karamdad in the TV series Andhera Ujala (1984–1985) in which he portrayed a simpleton and a blabbermouth character of a low-ranked policeman.

His father Sultan Khoosat, who died when Irfan was nine, was a painter, a former employee of Radio Pakistan and himself an actor and comedian.

[3] His maternal grandfather Mughal Basheer was also an actor, appearing in the 1962 Urdu-language film Chiragh Jalta Raha.

[4] Irfan Khoosat got his first breakthrough as a child artist with Radio Pakistan, when he replaced an actor for the show Ultay Pultay.