Shamim Ara
Acting
Biography
Shamim Ara is a renowned film actress, film producer and film director of Pakistan. She was born in British India at Aligarh in 1938. Her father's name was Syed Ali Ahmad and her maternal grandmother's name was Iqbal Begum who played a very active role in developing Shamim Ara's film career in Pakistan after Shamim Ara's mother's death at an early age. The family encouraged her to become a professional dancer in her childhood. Then her family visited Karachi, Pakistan in 1956 and Shamim Ara ran into a famous Pakistani film director Najam Naqvi there who was looking for new talent for his upcoming new movie Kunwari Bewa (1956) in Karachi. She was cast for the movie and her film acting career was launched. She acted in over 80 Pakistani films including super-hits like Saheli (1960),Qaidi (1962), Naila (1965) and Anarkali (1958). In 1976,she decided to become a film director herself and turned out many super-hit films like Playboy (1978), Miss Istanbul (1996) and Munda Bigra Jaye (1995) among many others. After Shamim Ara's husband Sardar Rind died in a fatal car accident on Karachi-Hyderabad Highway, she married film director Fareed Ahmed but this marriage only lasted for a very short time and the couple separated for unknown reasons and got divorced.Then Shamim Ara married A.Majeed from Agfa Color Film Company and had a son with him named Salman Iqbal. As of 2016, she is still married to Dabeer-ul-Hasan who is a film story writer and an associate film producer. Shamim Ara had a brain hemorrhage in Lahore, Pakistan in October 2010. She was then taken to London for treatment by her family. In London, after a brain surgery, she went into a coma and stayed in that coma until her death on 5 August 2016. Her son Salman Iqbal looked after her while she was being treated in the hospital. Looking at her entire film career, she did more than 80 films. There is no denying that she was an extremely active, talented and a successful film personality of Pakistan.
Known For
The film is set in 1947. The exodus has begun after Partition. A Sikh ex-military man in his thirties finds a 16-year-old Muslim girl alone in a nearby village and brings her home. But the villagers tell him he should either marry her or leave her in a camp where people bound for Pakistan are located. But he decides that since he is far older, he would better leave her at the camp. As he is about to send her off with a man bound for the camp and who is prepared to marry her there, she asks Buta Singh, if he is so poor that he cannot even feed her two Rotis per day to keep her alive...
Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh
A story about two women, who shared their husband.
Saheli
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Qaidi
1956 pakistani film
Miss 56
The Urdu film Bhabhi (1960) was directed by Syed Atta Ullah Shah Hashmi. Starring Shamim Ara and Aslam Pervaiz in leading roles
Bhabhi
Film starring Shamim Ara.
Ik Tera Sahara
Set in 1910s and 1920s at the time of British Raj, Farangi revolves around the battle of a Pashtun freedom fighter against the British army. At Nigar Awards 1964, the film received four awards including Best Actress for Shamim Ara.
Farangi
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Raaz
A 1960 Pakistani film directed by Nazir Ajmeri, who also produced it, and wrote its story and screenplay. It stars Shamim Ara and Ejaz.
Izzat
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Miss Istanbul
1959 pakistani film
Savera
A Pakistani musical romance drama about love, loyalty, and emotional conflict within a family. As Naila prepares for marriage, changing feelings and strained relationships begin to test the bonds around her.
Naila
Nadeem, a gifted singer with a heart of gold, finds his world shattered when his passion for music is deemed a disgrace. Forced to choose between his art and his love, he faces a crossroads that will haunt him for a lifetime.
Doraha
Salma splits accidentally from her parents in her childhood during a train journey. Jalal, a ruffian takes him and hand over her to Rasheeda, a woman who is a singer and raises her.
Salgirah
Prince Jahangir loves the slave girl Anarkali, which creates a serious conflict between Prince Jahangir and his father, Mughal emperor Akbar.
Anarkali
1959 pakistani film
Apna Paraya
A Hindu girl who is raised in the Pakistani part of Kashmir, is gunned down while crossing the barbed-wire frontiers.
Lakhoon Main Aik
This Urdu film Jalva (1966) was directed by Younis Rahi.
Jalwa
The drama revolves around a child who is considered unlucky because of her gender.
Saiqa
A novelist consumed by society's moral collapse goes undercover as a taxi driver, drifting through the city's nightlife and its forgotten people, searching for answers he may not be ready to find.