actress
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a Character (arts), character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek ...
best known for many Pakistani movies since 1956. She was first introduced to the Pakistani film industry by the renowned film director
Anwar Kamal Pasha
Anwar Kamal Pasha ( ur, ), (23 February 1925 – 13 October 1987) was the pioneer in the Pakistan film industry and an early Pakistani film director and producer from Lahore, Pakistan.
Life and career
Pasha was a graduate from the For ...
in film
Chann Mahi
''Chan Mahi'' is a Pakistani Punjabi film released on 2 November 1956. The film was directed by Anwar Kamal Pasha and it became a popular musical film in 1956 with many super-hit film songs.
Producer and director Anwar Kamal Pasha introduced ...
(1956). Anwar Kamal Pasha is the one that gave her the professional film world name Bahar Begum. She later acted both in Punjabi,
Pashto
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Spoken as a native language mostly by ethnic Pashtuns, it is one of the two official languages ...
Lahore
Lahore ( ; pnb, ; ur, ) is the second most populous city in Pakistan after Karachi and 26th most populous city in the world, with a population of over 13 million. It is the capital of the province of Punjab where it is the largest city. ...
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Pakistan
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, her career has centered on the Punjabi film industry, initially playing heroines and then "emotionally strong mothers", usually ending-up playing 'mother' to popular lead actor of Punjabi films Sultan Rahi in his films during the 1980s. She has performed well in films playing a loud rural woman, especially the role of a ''Chaudhrani'' in Punjabi movies. Bahar Begum can speak Punjabi, Urdu, Pashto and English fluently.
Personal life
Bahar Begum married director and actor Iqbal Yousuf son of film director
S. M. Yusuf
Shaikh Muhammad Yusuf ( 17 August 1994), known professionally as S. M. Yusuf, was a Pakistani film director and producer. He made fourteen films in British India and later after the split of India subcontinent, he worked in Pakistani cinema a ...
some years later they divorced and she has one child.