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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.
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05 September 1978
Pakistani film
17 June 1966
This Urdu film Jalva (1966) was directed by Younis Rahi.
01 January 1999
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.
09 November 1956
1956 pakistani film
23 December 1960
A story about two women, who shared their husband.
29 November 1963
Film starring Shamim Ara.
28 October 1960
1960 pakistani film
17 July 1959
1959 pakistani film
29 March 1960
The Urdu film Bhabhi (1960) was directed by Syed Atta Ullah Shah Hashmi. Starring Shamim Ara and Asls
18 December 1964
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.
28 April 1967
A Hindu girl who is raised in the Pakistani part of Kashmir, is gunned down while crossing the barbed-wire frontiers.
01 November 1974
Urdu film directed by S. Suleman
08 November 1972
A love story undone by circumstance takes a darker turn when the past refuses to stay buried.
14 August 1959
1959 pakistani film
23 October 1965
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.
04 June 1958
Prince Jahangir loves the slave girl Anarkali, which creates a serious conflict between Prince Jahangir and his father, Mughal emperor Akbar.
20 September 1968
The drama revolves around a child who is considered unlucky because of her gender.
23 October 1964
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.
25 August 1967
Nadeem, a gifted singer with a heart of gold, finds his world shattered when his passion for music is deemed a disgrace.
08 April 1960
A 1960 Pakistani film directed by Nazir Ajmeri, who also produced it, and wrote its story and screenplay.
