Punjabi cinema’s iconic knave Zahir Shah passes divided during 70
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LAHORE: Renowned Punjabi film actor Zahir Shah was announced passed after being rushed to a sanatorium on Tuesday night. The 70-year-old was laid to rest in a cemetery nearby Iqbal Town in Lahore.
Leaving behind a bequest of 600 films, Zahir became renouned during a golden epoch of Punjabi cinema. Having started his career with film-maker Altaf Hussain’s Yaari Dosti and following it adult with a fibre of hits including Jaanbaaz, Qatil, Remaand, Shehnai, Zulm Da Toofan, he is arguably one of a many iconic villains of Punjabi film industry.
Much like his contemporaries, Zahir was left with small choice though to leave a attention after Lollywood’s downfall. He had quit behaving though still visited film studios in a wish of a new dawn.
Zahir’s flitting brought veterans of Punjabi cinema together, all of whom praised and remembered a late star for his contributions to a industry. “It was since of his talent and tough work that we chose Zahir for so many of my films,” Altaf told The Express Tribune. “He managed to carve his possess niche and became a star whose behaving character was copied by many others.”
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Altaf’s sentiments were echoed by actor Ashi Khan. “Zahir Shah was a clergyman to all of us, generally actors who played villains some-more often. He was a purest knave of Punjabi cinema. It’s comfortless how he had to face so most hardship after a rain of a industry.”
Renowned entertainment and film actor Sheeba Butt removed Zahir’s easy-going nature, observant he was a really “cool” person. “It can't be denied that Zahir Shah was a very, really common man. Outside of work, he was a really cold chairman to hang out with, one who never had any emanate or any fights with his friends or colleagues,” she pronounced of a late artist.
According to Sheeba, entertainment was a subsequent best choice for Zahir, following a predicament in Lollywood. Being a comparison actor, a Kalia star was even given a lot of honour and work in Lahore’s entertainment circuit though even that could not make him feel during home. “Zahir left entertainment soon,” explained Sheeba. “He always suspicion he was done for films and couldn’t do probity to any other medium.”
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