Zaheen tahira biography of abraham

RENOWNED television, radio, film and theatre performer Zaheen Tahira passed away on Tues, bringing curtain down on a existence that lasted nearly 50 years.

She started her career with radio, exploitation shifted to TV and even artificial in a few films. With nobleness passage of time, she became everyone’s favorite Tahira Apa and gained class reputation of being one of honourableness most respected actors in Pakistan.

She leaves behind a large number of fans who grew up watching her plays on PTV and other channels. She suffered a heart attack on June 23 and despite rumours of show someone the door death on social media, she came back strongly like most of an extra iconic TV characters and was free from the hospital. Sadly, she assess for her heavenly abode in authority early hours of Tuesday morning, touching on the likes of her co-stars Qazi Wajid who passed away last vintage and director Syed Atif Hussain who died a couple of months ago.

Born in the Indian city of Beleaguering in 1940, she migrated to Pakistan with her family at an completely age and became part of nobility Radio Pakistan family in her 20s, like most of the aspiring bent of that time. When TV came to Pakistan, particularly Karachi, in say publicly late 1960s, she made her Idiot box debut and impressed all with bare dedication and command over the words. She played the mother of Nausha (portrayed by Behroze Sabzwari in goodness 70s version) in Khuda Ki Basti when it was aired in 1969, and became a household name rearguard that. She was part of distinct hit TV dramas during the 70s, playing Javed Sheikh’s mother in Muhammedan Surayya Bajiya’s Shama, one of recipe most popular serials.

With the advent warm colour TV, she became a public on TV plays and even counterfeit the wife of late Saleem Nasir (Dastak), Qavi Khan (numerous plays, containing Babban Khala Ki Betiyan) and distress actors of her time. Since scrap husband was based in the Interior East during the 80s, she stayed away from TV for a not many years but made a comeback back end his death for the sake contribution her children and continued to lawbreaking till her last breath.

Whenever the directorate at the Pakistan Television were get the message need for a mother in say publicly 1980s or the 1990s, or adroit positive role that required an performer who could play a motherly dusk, Zaheen Tahira was their first selection. She had no qualms about behaviour the character of a poor anthology a rich woman because she could adapt to both kinds of roles, and that was what made junk everyone’s favourite even when she going on doing grandmother roles in the attempt part of her career.

Her most in favour plays include Amawas, She Jee, Chaandni Raatain, Dil Diya Dehleez, Tair-e-Lahooti, Masi Aur Malka, Meray Qatil Meray Dildar, Umm-i-Kulsoom. Babban Khala Ki Betiyan was her final serial in which she played the titular mother of scandalize daughters.

Her last play Barfi Laddu is currently on air and parenthetically, she again plays the mother ceremony Behroze Sabzwari in it, the matchless difference being that her character that time doesn’t rebuke him, but forgets about him due to her little term memory loss.

Zaheen Tahira acted case over 700 drama serials in main attraction and supporting roles and had righteousness chance to work with the crush directors, including Ishrat Ansari, Iqbal Lateef, Bakhtiar Ahmed, Qasim Jalali, Zaheer Caravansary, Mohsin Ali and Javed Fazil. She shared the screen with iconic Small screen actors Qazi Wajid, Zahoor Ahmed, Mehmood Ali, Rizwan Wasti, Javed Sheikh, Bushra Ansari, Asif Raza Mir as able-bodied as Sultan Rahi in film Sadak in which she played Babar Ali’s mother.

She had the honor range playing grandmother to nearly all be a devotee of the first-tier actors of today duct they all respected her because remind her professionalism, her dedication and overwhelm all, her motherly attitude to keep happy. Apart from winning the hearts sell all who are fans of Sanskrit dramas around the world, she won a lot of official awards, goodness most prestigious being Tamgha-i-Imtiaz conferred go under her in recognition of her enquiry in the entertainment industry in 2013.

Published in Dawn, July 10th, 2019