Shamim Ara

Acting

Shamim Ara

Born — Died

1938-03-22 — 2016-08-05

Place of birth

Aligarh, Uttar Pradesh, India

Known for

Acting

Credits

39 titles

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 …

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 17 titles

Qaidi poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Qaidi

1962

Izzat poster
NR

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

1960

Farangi poster
10.0

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

1964

Dil Ke Tukre poster
NR

Akbar, an honest tonga driver, struggles to care for his widowed sister and her children. But when a criminal ring begins abducting children across the city, he finds himself drawn into a desperate fight to protect the innocent and reunite broken homes.

Dil Ke Tukre

1965

Bhabhi poster
10.0

The Urdu film Bhabhi (1960) was directed by Syed Atta Ullah Shah Hashmi. Starring Shamim Ara and Aslam Pervaiz in leading roles

Bhabhi

1960

Naila poster
8.0

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

1965

Jalwa poster
NR

This Urdu film Jalva (1966) was directed by Younis Rahi.

Jalwa

1966

Hamraz poster
NR

Hamraz (1967) is a Pakistani suspense thriller by Khwaja Khurshid Anwar, starring Shamim Ara and Mohammed Ali, loosely based on The Woman in White, about a conspiracy against two sisters.

Hamraz

1967

Saheli poster
10.0

A story about two women, who shared their husband.

Saheli

1960

Saiqa poster
5.0

The drama revolves around a child who is considered unlucky because of her gender.

Saiqa

1968

Chingari poster
NR

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.

Chingari

1964

Mera Kya Qasoor poster
NR

Following his parents' tragic demise, an orphaned boy is labeled "cursed" by superstitious villagers and forced to endure harsh treatment. As family conflicts and societal prejudices mount, the young child risks everything in a moment of grave danger to prove his worth and clear his name.

Mera Kya Qasoor

1962

Dil Mera Dharkan Teri poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Dil Mera Dharkan Teri

1968

Lakhoon Main Aik poster
NR

A Hindu girl who is raised in the Pakistani part of Kashmir, is gunned down while crossing the barbed-wire frontiers.

Lakhoon Main Aik

1967

Ik Tera Sahara poster
NR

Film starring Shamim Ara.

Ik Tera Sahara

1963

Doraha poster
NR

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

1967

Raat Ke Rahi poster
NR

1960 pakistani film

Raat Ke Rahi

1960

Behind the camera

Suhag poster
NR

A love story undone by circumstance takes a darker turn when the past refuses to stay buried.

Suhag

1972

Miss Istanbul poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Miss Istanbul

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No artwork available
NR

Rehman and Ehsan, two orphaned brothers, grow up to find themselves on opposite sides of the law when one becomes a police officer and the other turns into a dreaded dacoit.

Jio Aur Jeene Do

1976

No artwork available
NR

Rehman and Ehsan, two orphaned brothers, grow up to find themselves on opposite sides of the law when one becomes a police officer and the other turns into a dreaded dacoit.

Jio Aur Jeene Do

1976

No artwork available
NR

Rehman and Ehsan, two orphaned brothers, grow up to find themselves on opposite sides of the law when one becomes a police officer and the other turns into a dreaded dacoit.

Jio Aur Jeene Do

1976

Shaheed-E-Mohabbat Boota Singh poster
6.9

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

1999

Munda Bigra Jaey (A Boy Gone Astray) poster
NR

Munda Bigra Jaey became the first ever Urdu film to celebrate diamond jubilees (100 weeks) in both Karachi and Lahore's cinemas. This film achieved some amazing success through out the country and it was a great comeback of Urdu films.

Munda Bigra Jaey (A Boy Gone Astray)

1995

No artwork available
NR

Pakistani film

Playboy

1978

No artwork available
NR

Pakistani film

Playboy

1978

Saiqa poster
5.0

The drama revolves around a child who is considered unlucky because of her gender.

Saiqa

1968

Bhool poster
NR

Urdu film directed by S. Suleman

Bhool

1974