Salman Shahid

Salman Shahid (Urdu: سلمان شاہد) is a Pakistani film, theatre, television and voice actor.

Salman Shahid
Born	1952 (age 72–73) Lahore, Punjab, British India
Nationality	Pakistani, British
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1975–present
Parent	Khursheed Shahid (mother)

The son of producer Saleem Shahid and the late veteran actress Khursheed Shahid,^[1] he has worked in Lollywood, Bollywood as well as in theatre and television.^[2][3]

He has appeared in the Pakistani television (PTV) TV programme Such Gup (1975), the TV shows Taal Matol (1975), Teen Bata Teen (1995) and Hoo Bahoo (2006).^[2][3][4]

Career

Media education and early work

In 1976, Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) gave Salman a scholarship to study film-making in Moscow for four years.^[2][3] He eventually completed his film studies at the prestigious Moscow Film School.^[3]

On his return to Pakistan, he work to help establish various drama groups and a drama school.

His series Ababeel (PTV Lahore) and Seerhian (PTV Karachi) were noted, while he also did several noteworthy individual plays as well as direct episodes for the successful TV comedy series Family Front, which aired on PTV in 1997.

Direction and screenwriting

Salman has been directing plays since his college days, such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman in 1973 and later Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters In Search of an Author in 2007, and, when it comes to television, he wrote, directed and acted in the serial Bano Ko Pehchano (Geo TV) for which he received nominations in all departments of his work at the 2006 Lux Style Awards.^[5]

His production Tassadum was selected at the Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre.^[6]

Career in India

Salman has acted in films in India, playing a main protagonist in Kabul Express (2006) and the main antagonist in Ishqiya (2010), both films having run the international festival circuit.^[4]

Filmography

Films

Year	Title	Role	Country	Ref
2004	Khamosh Pani	Amin	Pakistan	[2]
2006	Kabul Express	Imran Khan Afridi / Subedar M.J. Mohammad	India	[2]
2010	Ishqiya	Mushtaq Bhai		[2]
2014	Dedh Ishqiya
	Tamanna	Mian Tariq Ali	Pakistan
	Na Maloom Afraad	Gogi
2016	Teri Meri Love Story	Rana Saheb
2017	Azad			[7]
2018	Altered Skin	Imtiaz
2019	Ready Steady No	Chaudhry Saheb

Television serials

Year	Title	Role	Channel	Director	Screenwriter	Ref
1975	Such Gup		PTV			[8]
	Taal Matol					[9]
1982	Dhoop Dewar	Asad
1985	Apnay Log	Iqtedar Ali
1986	Ababeel					[10][11]
1988	Seerhian	Kamal				[12][13]
1997	Family Front					[14][15]
2005	Jaye Kahan Yeh Dil		Geo TV
	Bano Ko Pehchano
2009	Na Jane Kyun		PTV Home			[16]
2010	Noor Bano		Hum TV			[11]
2011	Khuda Aur Muhabbat	Maulvi Aleem	Geo TV			[17]
2012	Mi-Raqsam					[3]
2013	Aseerzadi	Peer Jalal	Hum TV
2016	Faltu Larki	Anwar-ul-Haq	A-Plus TV
2017	Shadi Mubarak Ho		Ary Digital
	Mujhay Jeenay Do	Khuda Baksh	Urdu 1
	Bhai	Munner; Ashraf's father	A-Plus TV
2019	Bewaja		PTV Home			[18]
	Tu Zindagi Hai					[19]
2021	Raqeeb Se	Masood	Hum TV
2023	Tumhare Husn Ke Naam	Qureshi Sahab	Green Entertainment
	Nauroz

Web series

Year	Title	Role	Director	Country	Notes
2024	Barzakh	Jafar Khanzada	Asim Abbasi	Pakistan	Web series on ZEE5

Awards and nominations

Year	Award	Nominated Work	Category	Result
2006	5th Lux Style Awards	Bano Ko Pehchano	Best TV Actor (Satellite)	Nominated
			Best TV Director (Satellite)
2015	14th Lux Style Awards	Na Maloom Afraad	Best Film Actor
2019	18th Lux Style Awards	Ready Steady No