Ratan Kumar

Ratan Kumar was born as Syed Nazir Ali in 1941 in British India. He became the most-sought-after child-actor in India in the 1950s after his initial success in 1952. He played a young boy's role in many Pakistani films later. Nagin (1959) was the first Pakistani film he played a lead actor opposite Neelo as the lead actress. Ratan Kumar's success, as a lead actor, could not last long because his later films did not do well at the box-office and he eventually faded away. In 1977, his 4 years old daughter died in an accident in Lahore, Pakistan. He was so emotionally upset after that accident that he decided to quit the Pakistani film industry. In 1979, Ratan Kumar left Pakistan never to return again. In the late 1960s, Ratan Kumar also got into the business of selling oriental carpets and had started travelling back and forth from Pakistan to Europe for this business. Eventually he ended up settling down permanently in the United States after 1979. ==Death==

Ratan Kumar was living in California, in his old age, and was admitted to the hospital for pneumonia 10 days before his death on 12 December 2016. He had a long history of illness, though. In 1996, his lungs had collapsed twice in the same year. When they collapsed the third time in 2000, he was left paralyzed and went into a coma for eight days. Then he recovered in four to five months and became somewhat normal again. His survivors include 2 sons, a daughter and seven grandchildren. ==Filmography==

In India • Baiju Bawra (1952)- Ratan Kumar played the role of the child, 'Chote Baiju' • Nagin (1959)- as a lead actor for the first time. A successful Golden Jubilee film at the box-office • Clerk (1960) • Aladdin Ka Beta (1960) • Do Ustaad (1960) • Sher-e-Islam (1961) • Taj Aur Talwar (1961) • Aasra (1969) • Dastaan (1969) == References ==