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Jamal Shah (
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: جمال شاہ) is a Pakistani actor,
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, painter, social worker, script writer, singer, songwriter.


Early life and education

Jamal Shah was born into a Pashtun Syed family in 1956 in
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,
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, Pakistan. Jamal Shah received a
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University of Balochistan The University of Balochistan (UB) (Urdu: جامعہ بلوچستان; Balochi: بلوچستان ء یونیورسٹی ), also known as Balochistan University, is a public university located in the downtown area of Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan. ...
,
Quetta Quetta (; ur, ; ; ps, کوټه‎) is the tenth List of cities in Pakistan by population, most populous city in Pakistan with a population of over 1.1 million. It is situated in Geography of Pakistan, south-west of the country close to the ...
in 1978. He graduated from
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,
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in 1983. He later obtained a Master's degree in fine arts from the
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in
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.Profile of Jamal Shah on Clifton Art Gallery website
Retrieved 30 October 2019


Career

In 1984, he established the Fine Arts Department at the
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and headed it until 1986. In 1985, he founded the Artists Association of Balochistan and also was appointed the first Chairman of the
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. During the 80s he began to have an international recognition, being called "the next
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" and getting a role in the 1989
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'', but he refused most of these offers as they clashed with his Islamic values. In 1991, Jamal Shah made his acting debut in the film ''K2'', directed by
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, and since then, he has appeared in many other movies and TV dramas. He founded the Hunerkada College of Visual and Performing Arts in
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in 1992 and later became a
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doing television productions under the banner of Hunerkada Productions. In 2007, he became the executive director of
Pakistan National Council of the Arts Pakistan National Council of the Arts ( ur, , or PNCA) was set up to spearhead the development of arts in Pakistan by an Act of Parliament in 1973. It aims to build a robust arts ecosystem by creating an environment conducive to the flourishi ...
(PNCA) in
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, Pakistan and then was appointed its Director General in October 2016. His tenure at PNCA ended on 22 September 2019 with him stating in an interview with Alyan Khan that he "did not want any extension". In 2019, Shah was the President and Chief Curator of the first Islamabad Art Festival. He made his directorial debut with the 2016 film ''
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''. In 2021, Shah was awarded the
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from the
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. In 2022, he sculpted a bronze
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of Pakistani Nobel laureate
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, which was unveiled by the director general of
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, Yukiya Amano at IAEA's 61st general conference.


Filmography


Television


See also

*
Pakistan National Council of the Arts Pakistan National Council of the Arts ( ur, , or PNCA) was set up to spearhead the development of arts in Pakistan by an Act of Parliament in 1973. It aims to build a robust arts ecosystem by creating an environment conducive to the flourishi ...
*
Artist Association of Pakistan Artist Association of Pakistan is an association of artists in Pakistan. Artist Association of Pakistan also established Hunerkada College of Visual and Performing Arts as a fine arts college in Islamabad, Pakistan. See also * Hunerkada Colle ...
* Hunerkada College of Visual and Performing Arts * ''
Traffik ''Traffik'' is a 1989 British television serial about an illegal drug trade. Its three stories are interwoven, with arcs told from the perspectives of Afghan and Pakistani growers, dealers and manufacturers, German dealers, and British users. ...
'' *
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References


External links


Hunerkada
* Pashtun people People from Quetta 1956 births Living people Pakistani male film actors Pakistani male television actors Pakistani painters University of Balochistan alumni University of Balochistan faculty National College of Arts alumni Alumni of the Slade School of Fine Art {{Pakistan-painter-stub