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Meesha Shafi is a Actor and Playback Singer Pakistanaise born on 1 december 1981
Meesha Shafi (Urdu: میشا شفیع) (born 1 December 1981 Lahore), is a Pakistani actress, model and a singer.
Shafi made her film debut with a supporting role in the 2013 Mira Nair's Hollywood film The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which was moderately successful at the box office. Her portrayal of a confident, modern-day Pakistani singer, drew critical appreciation. The following year she appeared in Bollywood film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, which rank among the third highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2013 in India. She achieved further critical and commercial success for her role of Laxmi, an Indian spy agency Research in the 2013 Bilal Lashari's action thriller Pakistani film Waar, which rank among the first highest-grossing Pakistani film of all time in Pakistan.
Hamid Akhtar was awarded with a 'Pride of Performance' in 2010.
Shafi's mother, veteran theater and television actress Saba Hamid is a highly successful Pakistani actress and has been gracing the screens for over 35 years and counting. She has won countless awards over the span of nearly 4 decades and was awarded the 'Pride of Performance' (a national award given to those with extraordinary contribution and achievement in the liberal arts field) in 2012.
Shafi married guitarist/music producer and fellow Overload band member, Mahmood Rahman, in 2008. Both are graduates of the National College of Arts from where they graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts degree. They are parents to daughter Janevi Rahman, and son Kazimir Rahman.
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Meesha Shafi
Shafi made her film debut with a supporting role in the 2013 Mira Nair's Hollywood film The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which was moderately successful at the box office. Her portrayal of a confident, modern-day Pakistani singer, drew critical appreciation. The following year she appeared in Bollywood film Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, which rank among the third highest-grossing Bollywood film of 2013 in India. She achieved further critical and commercial success for her role of Laxmi, an Indian spy agency Research in the 2013 Bilal Lashari's action thriller Pakistani film Waar, which rank among the first highest-grossing Pakistani film of all time in Pakistan.
Biography
Shafi belongs to a family of writers, painters and actors. Her maternal grandfather, Hamid Akhtar was an award winning novelist and columnist. President of the 'Progressive Writers' Movement and editor of countless Urdu daily newspapers like 'Imroz' and 'Nawa-e-Waqt'Hamid Akhtar was awarded with a 'Pride of Performance' in 2010.
Shafi's mother, veteran theater and television actress Saba Hamid is a highly successful Pakistani actress and has been gracing the screens for over 35 years and counting. She has won countless awards over the span of nearly 4 decades and was awarded the 'Pride of Performance' (a national award given to those with extraordinary contribution and achievement in the liberal arts field) in 2012.
Shafi married guitarist/music producer and fellow Overload band member, Mahmood Rahman, in 2008. Both are graduates of the National College of Arts from where they graduated with a Bachelors in Fine Arts degree. They are parents to daughter Janevi Rahman, and son Kazimir Rahman.
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The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2013)
, 2h10Directed by Mira Nair
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films based on the September 11 attacks, Films about religion, Films about terrorism, Political films, Films about Islam, Disaster films, Films about hijackings
Actors Kate Hudson, Liev Schreiber, Riz Ahmed, Kiefer Sutherland, Meesha Shafi, Om Puri
Roles Bina
Rating67%
In 2011, Anse Rainier (Gary Richardson), an American professor at Lahore University, is kidnapped soon after he leaves a movie theatre. A ransom video is sent to the US embassy, demanding the release of 690 detainees from a Muslim concentration camp in Kot Lakhpat and €700,000 for the children of Waziristan. Bobby Lincoln (Liev Schreiber), an American journalist and undercover CIA informant in Pakistan, arranges to interview a colleague of Rainer, Changez Khan (Riz Ahmed), who he suspects is involved in the kidnapping.
Waar (2013)
, 2h10Directed by Bilal Lashari
Origin Pakistan
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action
Themes Spy films, Films about terrorism
Actors Shaan Shahid, Shamoon Abbasi, Ayesha Khan, Meesha Shafi, Hamza Ali Abbasi, Bilal Lashari
Roles Lakshmi (alias Zoya)
Rating74%
Major Mujtaba Rizvi (played by Shaan Shahid) is a former Pakistan Army officer, who took an early retirement from the service. The plot involves a counter-terrorism operation being conducted in the northwestern tribal region of Pakistan, led by Ehtesham Khattak (played by Hamza Ali Abbasi) and coordinated by his sister, Javeria Khattak (played by Ayesha Khan), an intelligence officer. Ehtesham and Javeria come to know of a major terrorist attack that can only be countered with the help of Major Mujtaba.
Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)
, 3h7Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Biography, Action, Historical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Sports films, Athletics films, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Farhan Akhtar, Sonam Kapoor, Rebecca Breeds, Dalip Tahil, Meesha Shafi, Dev Gill
Roles Perizaad
Rating81%
The film starts in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where a coach says "Bhaag Milkha Bhaag!" The story is taken back to the memories of the childhood days of a young boy which haunted him, resulting in him dropping to fourth. Partition of India in 1947 caused chaos which resulted in mass religious violence in Punjab in British India, killing the parents of Milkha Singh (Farhan Akhtar). He reaches Delhi and later meets his sister there. Living in impoverished refugee camps, Milkha soon makes friends and survives by stealing along with his friends. He falls in love with Biro (Sonam Kapoor), but she asks him to live a life of honesty.
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Mother (2015)
, 1h27Origin Pakistan
Genres Drama
Actors Samiya Mumtaz, Hameed Sheikh, Soniya Hussain, Ayaz Samoo, Nayyar Ejaz, Eshita Syed
Roles Playback Singer
Rating72%
Recently widowed, Wahidullah Khan (Hameed Sheikh) is a troubled station-master at the Khost railway station on the fractured Bostan-Zhob tracks. The station, his sole source of income, has been reduced to a pitiable ruin due to the prevalence of a mafia which has caused several rifts in the Baluchistan railways. Using a combination of incentives and coercion, it acquires the land on which the tracks and stations were situated – and builds commercial and residential developments there. Additionally, it sells the steel, removed from the tracks, for a fortune. Wahid is in a predicament; torn between a verbal agreement to sell the station and tracks under his care to the mafia – including his brother, Zahir (Shabbir Rana), and gang leader, Lalu (Sultan Hussain) – and the last wishes of his deceased wife, Palwasha (Samiya Mumtaz). She vehemently opposed the deal, based on a strong conviction that this land keeps her family rooted.
Manto (2015)
, 2h7Origin Pakistan
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Films about writers
Actors Sania Saeed, Saba Qamar, Nimra Bucha, Mahira Khan, Savera Nadeem, Humayun Saeed Ansari
Roles Playback Singer
Rating82%