Tahira Wasti

Tahira Wasti
طاہرہ واسطی
Born
Tahira Bokhari

1944
Sargodha, Khushab, Punjab, British India
Died11 March 2012(2012-03-11) (aged 67–68)[1]
Karachi, Pakistan
Occupations
  • Actress
  • writer
  • newscaster
Years active1964-2012
SpouseRizwan Wasti (husband)[2]
ChildrenLaila Wasti (daughter)
Rehan Wasti (son)
RelativesMaria Wasti (niece)
Fahad Rehmani (son-in-law)

Tahira Wasti (Punjabi, Urdu: طاہرہ واسطی) (1944 – 11 March 2012) was a well-known Pakistani writer and television actress.[3] She was one of the most popular Pakistani TV actresses of her time as well as one of the most successful actresses from the 1960s to the 1990s.[4][5] She is best known for her portrayal of Isabella of Castile in the historical TV drama Shaheen.[1]

Early life

Tahira was born in 1944 in Sargodha, Punjab, (British India), now in Pakistan.[6] She received her early education from Sargodha, and later moved to Lahore for higher education, then Karachi.[6]

Career

Tahira Wasti started her career with writing articles in a magazine at the age of 16, and also worked as an English newscaster on PTV News in 1964.[1][7] Tahira started working as an actor in the 1968 Pakistan Television Corporation in 1968 drama serial Jaib Katra based on a novel by Saadat Hasan Manto.[1][8][9] She appeared in a number of TV dramas from 1968 until the 1990s, most of them have become classics of PTV, such as Kashkol, Jaangloos, and Daldal.[10][11][12] Her prominent personality made her famous for playing regal roles suitable for representing royal, feudal, or upper-class families, as in TV plays like Tipu Sultan: The Tiger Lord, Shaheen, and Aakhri Chatan.[13][14][8]

She also wrote plays for television and showed a special interest in science fiction.[6]

Personal life

She was the wife of TV actor and English language newscaster Rizwan Wasti; they are the parents of TV actress Laila Wasti.[1][15] Maria Wasti, a famous TV actress, is her niece.[9]

Illness and death

Tahira had developed heart ailments, diabetes and had been deeply affected by her husband's death in January 2011.[6] She died of natural causes on 11 March 2012, in Karachi, at the age of 68.[1][16]

Filmography

Television series

Year Title Role Notes
1980 Shaheen Ra'ena [1]
1981 Afshan Najmus Sehar [3]
1983 Shikayatain Hakayatain Dr. Almas
1984 Andhera Ujala Nasir's mother
1985 Guriya Begum Waqar
Raat Gaye Ahmed's mother
Aakhri Chatan Malka-e-Bortai [17]
1986 Khaleej Zonia's mother
1987 Raat Mariyam Bari
1988 Fligt 033 Passenger
1989 Jangloos Nasira
Pyas Zainab [18]
1990 Fishaar Bilqees Anis [1]
1991 Chotay Baray Log Rubina
1992 Nadan Nadia Tahira
1993 Kashkol Salma [1]
1995 Chand Grehan Khanum
1994 Heer Waris Shah Malki [3]
1995 Pukaar Malka-e-Helena
1996 Awazain Shireen Gul
Noori Jam Tamachi Bela
Chand Sa Mukhra Amir's mother
Fanooni Lateefay Parveen
1997 Shanakht Begum Waqar
1997 Tipu Sultan Rani Lakshra
1998 Maidaan-e-Mohabbat Begum Kahlil
Operation Dwarka 1965 Begum Commissioner
1999 Barzakh Begum Tanveer
2000 Harjaee Azra
2004–05 Moorat Reshma's mother
2006 Damaad House Gulnar
Dil, Diya, Dehleez Mrs. Khan
2007 Hyderabad Junction Samina
2008–09 Doraha Samina

Telefilm

  • Operation Dwarka 1965[19]
  • Uss Ki Biwi (a telefilm)[3]
  • Karwat

Film

As a writer

Honour

In 2021 on 16 August the Government of Pakistan named a street and intersection after her in Lahore.[20]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryResultTitleRef.
20051st Indus Drama AwardsBest WriterNominatedBheegi Palkain[21]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Renowned TV actress Tahira Wasti dies at age 68, Dawn (newspaper), Published 11 March 2012, Retrieved 14 June 2017
  2. ↑ "Actor Rizwan Wasti is dead". Dawn News. 12 August 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 TV artist Tahira Wasti dies at 68, Dunya News website, Published 11 March 2012, Retrieved 14 June 2017
  4. ↑ "معروف اداکارہ طاہرہ واسطی کا انٹرویو". TV Times Magazine: 218.
  5. ↑ "تاریخی کرداروں سے غیرمعمولی شہرت حاصل کرنے والی اداکارہ طاہرہ واسطی کی برسی". ARY News. 23 September 2022.
  6. 1 2 3 4 "BBC Urdu - فن فنکار - پاکستانی فنکارہ طاہرہ واسطی انتقال کرگئیں". BBC News website. 11 March 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  7. ↑ "Veteran actress Tahira Wasti remembered". Daily Times. 23 January 2021.
  8. 1 2 Tahira Wasti passes away, Daily Times newspaper, Published 12 March 2012, Retrieved 14 June 2017
  9. 1 2 "TV actress Tahira Wasti passes away". The Nation newspaper. 12 March 2012. Archived from the original on 20 November 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  10. ↑ South and Southeast Asia Video Archive Holdings, Issue 5. University of Wisconsin--Madison. p. 81.
  11. ↑ Third World International, Volume 12. S. J. Iqbal. p. 39.
  12. ↑ Third World International, Volume 12. S. J. Iqbal. p. 40.
  13. ↑ Pakistan TV actress Tahira Wasti passes away, Times of Ummah (Newspaper), Retrieved 14 June 2017
  14. ↑ Globe. A. Mahmood. p. 82.
  15. ↑ "Geo Urdu - ٹی وی فنکارہ طاہرہ واسطی انتقال کرگئیں". Geo TV website (in Urdu language). 11 March 2012. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  16. ↑ "Veteran television actor Tahira Wasti passes away". The Express Tribune. 11 September 2021.
  17. 1 2 3 Shazman Shariff (9 March 2003). "FIRST PERSON: Made for each other". Dawn Images. Archived from the original on 11 October 2008.
  18. ↑ "Inmemoriam: Nusrat Thakur (1937-2009)". Dawn News. 4 July 2021.
  19. ↑ Globe. A. Mahmood. p. 86.
  20. ↑ "Lahore streets, intersections to be named after famous personalities". Dawn News. 25 February 2022.
  21. ↑ "Best writer serial". daily motions. Indus TV Network. 11 March 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
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