Shamim Bano (also commonly termed 'Shamim' or 'Bano Begum'; 29 July 1920 – 23 October 1984) was a Pakistani actress and singer active in

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n and

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Cinema. She starred alongside

Dilip Kumar Dilip Kumar (born Muhammad Yusuf Khan; 11 December 1922 – 7 July 2021) was an Indian actor and film producer, who worked in Hindi cinema. Credited with pioneering method acting in cinema, he dominated Hindi cinema from the 1950s throughout t ...

in his debut film '' Jwar Bhata''.Not to be confused with another, later Pakistani film actress

Shamim Ara Shamim Ara (, 22 March 1938 – 5 August 2016) was a Pakistani film actress, director, and producer. She was known as ''The Tragic Beauty'' because of the tragic heroine roles she often portrayed in films. She was one of the most popular actr ...

She was the wife of prominent Pakistani film director and producer Anwar Kamal Pasha, and thus daughter-in-law of poet, writer and scholar Hakim Ahmad Shuja.

Early life

Shamim Bano was born in

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, in 1920 to a family of Pathan farmers and small landowners. Later they settled in the

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region but her parents sold most of their birthright and shifted to

and later

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(now

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), soon after the end of the

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Career

Shamim was a successful Indian heroine of the 1940s. She was related to legendary actress and singer

Khursheed Bano Khursheed Bano (14 April 1914 – 18 April 2001), often credited as Khursheed or Khurshid, was a singer and actress, and a pioneer of the Indian cinema. Her career ran through the 1930s and 1940s, before she migrated to Pakistan in 1948. Maki ...

as well as

Meena Kumari Meena Kumari (born Mahjabeen Bano; 1 August 1933 – 31 March 1972) was an Indian actress and poet, who worked in Hindi films. Known as "The Tragedy Queen", she is regarded among the finest and greatest actresses in the history of Indian cinem ...

. She is remembered for her role as being the co-star of

in his first film '' Jwar Bhata'' (1944). She started her career in the late 1930s with Vishnu Cine's ''Baghi'' (1939). Ranjit Movietone's ''Armaan'' (1942) was one of the most popular films of her career. Another milestone of her career was Kishore Sahu's ''

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'' (1947), which became quite controversial at the time of its release because it dealt with the topic of remarriage of

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widows. ''Mehmaan'', ''Sanyasi'' and '' Pehle Aap'' were other notable films of her career. After India's partition in 1947, she migrated to

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and appeared in a few Pakistani films, including '' Shahida'' (1949) where she was paired with Dilip Kumar's younger brother Nasir Khan, followed by ''

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'' (1950) which became the first

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Urdu film of Pakistan.

Personal life

Bano married director and producer Anwar Kamal Pasha with whom she had worked in the movie ''

Do Ansoo ''Do Ansoo'', (; ''Two Tears'') is a Pakistani film made in 1949 and released on 7 April 1950. COVER ST ...

''. Pasha was younger than her. She bid adieu to her film career to focus on her family. She had three children with Pasha.

Death

She died at her home in

in 1984.

Filmography

Film

Awards and recognition

Notes

References

External links

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