Tahira_Wasti

Tahira Wasti

Tahira Wasti

Pakistani actress

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 leading actresses of Pakistan Television Screens.[4] She was one of the most popular actress of her time and was one of the most successful actress of 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s.[5][4] She is best known for portrayal of Isabella of Castile in the TV drama Shaheen.[1]

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Early life

Tahira was born in 1944 at Sargodha, Punjab, (British India) now in Pakistan.[6] She received her early education from Sargodha and later she 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 she also worked as an English newscaster on PTV News in 1964.[1][7] Tahira started working at Pakistan Television Corporation in 1968 by acting in a TV 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 special interest in science fiction.[6]

Personal life

She was the wife of TV actor and English language newscaster Rizwan Wasti and was mother 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, depression because of her husband's death and diabetes.[6] She died of natural causes on 11 March 2012, in Karachi, at the age of 68.[1][16]

Filmography

Television series

Telefilm

  • Operation Dwarka 1965[18]
  • Uss Ki Biwi (a telefilm)[3]
  • Karwat

Film

As a writer

  • Deemak (Long play)
  • Parsa (screenplay writer)
  • Hazaron Saal (co-writer)
  • Bheegi Palkain (writer)

Honour

In 2021 on 16 August the Government of Pakistan named a street and intersection after her in Lahore.[19]

Awards and nominations

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References

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