Acting
Rehan Sheikh
Born 1969-01-13 · London, England
Rehan Sheikh (born January 13, 1969) is a British-Pakistani filmmaker, actor, director, writer, playwright, producer, and former television host. He is best known for The Castle: Aik Umeed (2001), Inkaar (2019), for which he was nominated for Best Actor at Lux Style Awards, and Sanjha (2011-2012), which earned him a Hum Awards nomination. Sheikh started his career on stage in South London, notably working in Tamasha Theatre Company's Women of the Dust in 1992. While visiting Pakistan during holidays the next year, he wrote, directed, and acted in a play in Rawalpindi, where he was spotted by renowned playwright and theatre director Sarmad Sehbai. Sehbai got him his first television role in Aaghosh (1993). Sheikh remained in Pakistan and went on do a number of popular drama serials and also hosted the short-lived travel show Travel Guide of Pakistan.
Acting credits
5.0A British Asian Mancunian is drawn in to the criminal underworld by his notorious uncle. Everything is at stake as his competition with his cousin reaches a deadly level.
Apnas
2026
7.0Inept kidnappers need both luck and logic to stay one step ahead of the determined cop who is hot on their trail, but are laughably lacking both.
Chupan Chupai
2018
9.3The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
Manto
2015
10.0An off beat comedy drama set in modern day Pakistan about a free spirited RJ who hosts a morning show until a chance encounter leads him to confront his own ideas of freedom.
Azad
2018
NRA contemporary boy returns to his traditional hometown for his sister's wedding, soon discovering his own proposal finalized with a girl he's never seen. Challenging family customs, his sole mission is to at least see the face of his future bride-to-be.
Poppay Ki Wedding
2024
10.0A story of a mother, in village of Thar desert in border area, who sacrificed her motherhood for the justice to her country and for a soldier whom she also said to be her son. She did not even thought for a single minute for her only son who could get into difficulty.
Mother of Desert
2005
6.7Ayesha is a widow with a secret past, living with her beloved son Saleem in a small town in Pakistan close to the Indian border. When the fires of Islamic nationalism invade their tranquil lives, Saleem and a few of the town's other young men are soon gripped by a religious fervour, and they attempt to bring radical Islamic law to their friends and neighbours. After a group of Sikh pilgrims arrive in town, tensions reach boiling point as Ayesha's haunted past comes rushing back.
Silent Waters
2003
7.1An aspiring actor succumbs to pressure from his father and takes up the role of lawyer.
Actor in Law
2016
NRA rich business man with the aid of a corrupt police unit attempt to hunt down in order to kill and an ex-business associate and family member after he escapes a failed execution.
Driven
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Behind the camera
10.0An off beat comedy drama set in modern day Pakistan about a free spirited RJ who hosts a morning show until a chance encounter leads him to confront his own ideas of freedom.
Azad
2018
10.0An off beat comedy drama set in modern day Pakistan about a free spirited RJ who hosts a morning show until a chance encounter leads him to confront his own ideas of freedom.
Azad
2018
10.0An off beat comedy drama set in modern day Pakistan about a free spirited RJ who hosts a morning show until a chance encounter leads him to confront his own ideas of freedom.
Azad
2018
10.0An off beat comedy drama set in modern day Pakistan about a free spirited RJ who hosts a morning show until a chance encounter leads him to confront his own ideas of freedom.
Azad
2018