Cairo: Seventy-three-year-old Egyptian film director Mohammed Hamed Hassan Khan died on Tuesday morning at Al-Maadi Hospital in Cairo.
Born on October 26, 1942 to an Egyptian father and a Pakistani mother, Khan is a renowned director, screenwriter and actor.
He is ranked among the ‘1980s realisms generation’, alongside of the other iconic legendary cinema directors, including Khairy Beshara, Daoud Abdel Sayed, Atef El-Tayeb, and Yousry Nasrallah.
He is survived by a daughter, Nadine, who is a film director, and a son Hassan, reported Arabic daily Almasry Al Youm.
He was married to Wessam Soliman, a scenarist who wrote three of his movies namely ‘Banat Wust el-Balad (Downtown Girls), ‘Fi-Sha'et Masr el-Guedida’ (In a Heliopolis Apartment), and ‘Fatat el-Masna' (The Factory Girl).
His filmography also includes ‘El Raghba’ (Desire), ‘Al Tha'r’ (The Vengeance), ‘Maw'id Ala Asha' (A Dinner Appointment), ‘Zawgat Ragol Mohim’ ( The Wife of an Important Man), ‘Ahlam Hind we Kamilia’ (Dreams of Hind and Camilia), ‘Ayyam El Sadat’ (Days of Sadat).
He last directed ‘Before the Summer Crowds’ in 2016.
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