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In 2011, Pasha was hired to rewrite a movie screenplay entitled "The Immaculate" for Sidney Kimmel Entertainment and producer Charles Segars . The film follows an agnostic government agent assigned to protect a 17-year-old boy who some people believe is the Messiah .[6]
Pasha wrote his first video game for the hip hop artist 50 Cent in 2008. The game, 50 Cent: Blood on the Sand , is the sequel to the bestselling 50 Cent: Bulletproof and is distributed by Vivendi Games .[7]
Early career
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Pasha was born on 3 April 1972 in Karachi, Pakistan , and migrated to the United States at the age of three. He was raised in Brooklyn in the predominantly Hasidic Jewish neighborhood of Borough Park .[8] He attended Stuyvesant High School in New York, graduating in 1989. He went on to Dartmouth College ,[9] where he majored in comparative religion [8] [10] and was an editor of the college newspaper , The Dartmouth .
After graduating, Pasha worked as a journalist for the Wall Street publisher Institutional Investor and the Knight Ridder financial newswire. During his tenure as a reporter, he interviewed international leaders such as the Israeli prime minister Shimon Peres , the Pakistani prime minister Benazir Bhutto , and the Peruvian president , Alberto Fujimori .[8]
He left journalism in 1996 and attended Cornell Law School .[11] He subsequently enrolled in the MBA program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and graduated with a joint law/business degree in 2000.[12]
Move into film industry
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Pasha briefly worked as an attorney at the New York law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison before moving to Los Angeles to pursue a career in film making. He attended the MFA Producers Program at the UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television and graduated in 2003.[13]
His first television writing job was as a staff writer on UPN 's remake of the classic series The Twilight Zone .[14]
In 2003, Pasha set up his first feature film project, a historical epic on the love story of the Taj Mahal , at Warner Brothers Pictures .[15] He subsequently wrote a screen adaptation of the Japanese anime Kite in collaboration with the director Rob Cohen and the producer Anant Singh.[16] He has also written screen adaptations of the Japanese horror film Ghost Actress by the director Hideo Nakata and adapted Deepak Chopra 's novel, Soulmate .[17]
Pasha spent two years as a writer and co-producer for Sleeper Cell . In 2007, he signed on as a producer of NBC 's Bionic Woman .[18]
Pasha wrote and directed the short film Miriam , which won the Gaia Award at the Moondance International Film Festival in August 2008.[19] The award is given to those who "elucidate and improve the spiritual quality of all life on the planet, and contribute[...] to the betterment of the world spirit".[20]
Personal life
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In 2008, Pasha accompanied his mother on the hajj , the traditional Islamic pilgrimage to Mecca .[1] Pasha blogs regularly for the Huffington Post .[21]
Books
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Pasha sold his first two novels to Simon & Schuster in 2007. The books are entitled Mother of the Believers , a historical epic that follows the birth of Islam from the eyes of the Islamic prophet Muhammad 's wife Aisha , and Shadow of the Swords , a love story set amidst the showdown of Richard the Lionheart and Saladin during the Third Crusade .[22]
References
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^ Smith, Lynn (2005-07-31). "Showtime's 'Sleeper Cell' brings terrorism home" . The Boston Globe . Retrieved 2007-05-02 .
^ "63rd Golden Globe Awards Nominations" . Golden Globes . Hollywood Foreign Press Association . 2005-12-13. Archived from the original on 2007-04-02. Retrieved 2007-05-02 .
^ Levin, Gary (2006-07-06). "Emmy barely budges from nomination rut" . USA Today . Retrieved 2007-05-02 .
^ McNary, Dave. "SKE puts a mark on 'The Immaculate' " . Variety . Retrieved 2011-05-27 .
^ "50 Cent Is Back" . Fox Business Network . 2008-03-27. Archived from the original on 2008-03-31. Retrieved 2008-04-09 .
^ a b c "BIOS" . Network of South Asian Professionals – Washington, D.C. Archived from the original on 2007-08-14. Retrieved 2007-05-02 .
^ "dartmouth class of '93" . Dartmouth College . 2005-08-12. Retrieved 2007-05-02 .
^ "HONORS THESES IN RELIGION: 1975-2006" (PDF) . Dartmouth College . Retrieved 2007-05-02 .[permanent dead link ]
^ "Cornell Law School Student Email Addresses" . Cornell Law School . Retrieved 2007-05-02 .
^ "Interesting Links" . Tuck2000.com. 2006. Retrieved 2007-05-02 .
^ "Immigrants of the Week" . Immigration Daily. 2008-02-19. Retrieved 2008-04-09 .
^ "Kamran Pasha" . TV.com . CNET Networks, Inc. 2007. Retrieved 2007-05-02 .
^ Dhar, S (2003-06-18). "Hollywood turns to India for inspiration" . Asia Times Online . Archived from the original on 2012-07-24. Retrieved 2007-05-02 . {{cite news }}
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^ "Scribe Hired For Rob Cohen's 'Kite' Adaptation" . KillerMovies. 2004-01-20. Retrieved 2007-05-02 .
^ "SOULMATE" . Artsmart. 2003-09-24. Retrieved 2007-05-02 .
^ "The Bionic Woman" . Variety . 2007-09-21. Retrieved 2007-10-17 .
^ "Moondance 2008 Winners" . Moondance Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2008-06-22. Retrieved 2008-08-08 .
^ "Moondance Awards" . Moondance Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2008-06-17. Retrieved 2008-08-08 .
^ "Blog Entries By Kamran Pasha" . Huffington Post . Retrieved 2010-04-02 .
^ "Reading the Past" . ReadingThePast.Blogspot.Com. 18 September 2007. Retrieved 2007-11-10 . .
External links
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R e t r i e v e d f r o m " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kamran_Pasha&oldid=1219947253 "
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