Nadeem (Pakistani actor)

Nadeem
ندیم
Born
Mirza Nazir Baig

(1941-07-19) 19 July 1941 (age 85)
Vijayawada, Madras Presidency, British India (now in Andhra Pradesh, India)
OccupationsFilm actor, singer
Years active1967–present
RelativesCaptain Ehtesham (father-in-law)
AwardsPride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan (1997)
Nigar Awards (won this award 17 times during his career)
Websitewww.supernadeem.com

Mirza Nazir Baig (born 19 July 1941), best known by his screen name Nadeem (Urdu: ندیم ), is a Pakistani actor, singer and producer. He has appeared in over two hundred films. He has been honored with the Pride of Performance award in 1997. He has also produced two movies, Mitti Ke Putlay (1974), which he also co-wrote and which won the Lenin Prize in the USSR, and Mukhra (1988), a romantic-comedy Punjabi film.

Early life

Nadeem was born on 19 July 1941 in Vijayawada, which at the time was part of the Madras Presidency in British India. His father worked in an oil company. Nadeem migrated to Dhaka, East Pakistan along with his family after the independence of Pakistan, in 1947. After his early education in Nazimabad, he finished high school at Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam and attended some years of college at Government Islamia Science College, Karachi before he entered the Pakistani film industry. In his college days he was also a cricketer, playing up to the first-class level in the Quaid-e-Azam Trophy.

Nadeem, and artists Talat Hussain, M. Zaheer Khan, Aftab Azeem, Saleem Jafry, and TV producer Iqbal Haider were all discovered at a club in Karachi in the 1960s. He and his friends, Ameer Ahmed Khan and Qasim Siddiqui, won several music competitions. At one of those musical competitions, he was noticed by singer Ferdausi Rahman. She was impressed by his singing talent and encouraged him to try playback singing in Dhaka's film industry. In Dhaka, while working in an office, he used to sing in both Urdu and Bengali.

Career

Nadeem's film career spans nearly 60 years. He started his career in 1967 and appeared in his first film, Chakori (1967), in a leading role opposite actress Shabana. He was initially supposed to be a playback singer for the movie. The film was produced and directed by Captain Ehtesham, who, in real life, became his father-in-law in 1968 when Nadeem married Farzana, Ehtesham's daughter. The film did well in both circuits of the Pakistani film industry, i.e., West and East Pakistan. He won a Nigar Award in the best actor's category for Chakori. Nadeem's films include Nadan (1973), Anari, Pehchan (1975), Talash (1976), Aina (1977), Hum Dono (1980), Lajawab, Qurbani (1981), Sangdil (1982), and Dehleez (1983). He made a popular screen pairing with actress Shabnam, with whom he acted in most of his films. Besides acting, Nadeem has sung many songs for films. Nadeem has worked with veteran film directors of the Pakistani film industry, including Pervez Malik, Nazrul Islam, S. Suleman, Shamim Ara, Sangeeta, and Samina Peerzada. Among the well-known actors, he has worked with Santosh Kumar, Darpan, Waheed Murad, Allauddin, and Syed Kamal over his long career.

Playback singers

In his career, Nadeem has been mostly voiced by Ahmed Rushdi and later Akhlaq Ahmed provided his voice. He acknowledged that songs in Rushdi's voice made his work easier and played a significant role in his success.

Personal life

Nadeem married a Bangladeshi girl Farzana (A close friend of film actress Shabnam) in 1968, with whom he has 2 sons but the marriage could not last long and eventually they were divorced in 1997. Both his sons choose to live in Bangladesh with their mother. Nadeem currently lives in Karachi and seldom works in Pakistani television plays.

Selected filmography

Television

YearTitleChannel
2005 Riyasat ARY Digital
2007 Saheli Hum TV
2012 Mil Ke Bhi Hum Na Mile Geo TV
2014 Jaan Hatheli Par PTV Home
2015 Mol Hum TV
2016 Tum Yaad Aaye ARY Digital
Rishta Hai Jaisey Khawab Sa Aaj Entertainment
2022 Ishq E Laa Hum TV
Khaab Toot Jaatay Hain

Awards and recognition

Lux Style Awards

Ceremony Category Project Result
2nd Lux Style Awards Chaiperson's Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to Pakistani film industry Won
4th Lux Style Awards Best TV Actor (Satellite) Jaisay Jante Nahi Nominated
18th Lux Style Awards Best Film Actor Superstar

See also

References

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