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{{infobox person<br />
| name = Shyam<br />
| birth_name = Sunder Shyam Chadda<br />
| image =Actor Shyam in the film Aaj aur Kal.jpg<br />
| caption =<br />
| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1920|2|20}}<br />
| birth_place = [[Sialkot]], [[Punjab Province (British India)|Punjab]], [[British India]]<br />
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1951|4|25|1920|2|20}}<br />
| occupation = [[Actor]]<br />
| education = [[Gordon College (Pakistan)|Gordon College]]<br />
| spouse = {{marriage|Mumtaz Qureshi ('Taji')|1940|1951}}<br />
| children = [[Sahira Kazmi]] (daughter)<br>Shakir (son)<br />
| relatives = [[Rahat Kazmi]] (son-in-law)<br>[[Ali Kazmi]] (grandson)<br>Nida Kazmi (grand-daughter)<br />
| years_active = 1942–1951<br />
}}<br />
'''Sunder Shyam Chadda''' (20 February 1920 – 25 April 1951)<ref name=Upperstall>{{cite web|title=Shyam's Upperstall profile|url=http://www.upperstall.com/people/shyam}}</ref> was an Indian actor in [[Hindi cinema]]. He began his career in 1942 and worked in over 30 films until his death in 1951 at the age of 31<ref name=mishra>{{cite book |title=Bollywood Cinema |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N5Z9_ysSgW8C&q=shyam++%2Bsuperstar&pg=PR13 |last=Mishra |first=Vijay |year=2002 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-93014-7 |pages=xiii }}</ref><br />
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==Early life & career==<br />
He originally hailed from [[Sialkot]] but grew up in [[Rawalpindi]].<ref>{{cite news | url=https://dailytimes.com.pk/107072/an-evening-with-actor-shyams-family/ | title=An evening with actor Shyam's family | first=Ishtiaq | last=Ahmed | date=2 November 2013 | newspaper=Daily Times | access-date=18 October 2018 }}</ref> Shyam graduated from [[Gordon College (Pakistan)|Gordon College]] in [[Rawalpindi]]. He was a close friend of [[Saadat Hasan Manto]] and was the inspiration to many of his stories.<ref>{{cite book |title=Enlightenment in the Colony |url=https://archive.org/details/enlightenmentcol00muft |url-access=limited |last=Mufti |first=Aamir |year=2007 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-05732-3 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/enlightenmentcol00muft/page/n224 206] }}</ref> Even after partition, their friendship remained strong.<br />
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Shyam's film career began in 1942 with the Punjabi film ''Gowandhi''.<ref>https://www.cinemaazi.com/people/shyam-actor</ref> In 1944, he moved to Bombay and started acting in Hindi films. He acted opposite several of the top actresses of the time such as [[Nargis]], [[Nigar Sultana (actress)|Nigar Sultana]], [[Suraiya]] and [[Nalini Jaywant]]. One of his most famous movies was ''[[Bazaar (1949 film)|Bazaar]]'', released in 1949, in which he starred with Nigar Sultana. Some of his other notable films included ''[[Man Ki Jeet]]'' (1944), ''[[Majboor (1948 film)|Majboor]]'' (1948), ''[[Dillagi (1949 film)|Dillagi]]'' (1949), ''[[Patanga (1949 film)|Patanga]]'' (1949), ''[[Chandni Raat]]'' (1949), ''[[Meena Bazaar (film)|Meena Bazaar]]'' (1950) and ''[[Samadhi (1950 film)|Samadhi]]''. His last film was ''[[Shabistan (1951 film)|Shabistan]]'' which was released after his death.<br />
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==Personal life==<br />
He married Mumtaz Qureshi (also called “Taji”), with whom he had a daughter, Pakistani TV actress Sahira Kazmi and a son Shakir, who was born two months after Shyam's death. [[Sahira Kazmi]] married the actor [[Rahat Kazmi]], and Shakir is now a Psychiatrist based in the United Kingdom. Mumtaz migrated to Lahore, Pakistan, after her husband's premature death in 1951, along with her elder sister, Zeb Qureshi, who was an actress in Bombay. Mumtaz later married a gentleman, Ansari<ref name="APN">{{cite web|url=http://apnaorg.com/articles/ishtiaq-20/|title=Actor Shyam (1920-1951) who died very young|website=apnaorg.com}}</ref><br />
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==Death==<br />
Shyam died on the set of ''[[Shabistan (film)|Shabistan]]'' in 1951 after he fell off a horse during filming. His few remaining scenes were completed with a body-double who had a similar height to him and filmed from behind without showing his face.<ref name=APN /><ref name=mishra/><br />
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==In film==<br />
[[Tahir Raj Bhasin]] was seen portraying Shyam in the film ''[[Manto (2018 film)|Manto]]'', a biopic on [[Saadat Hasan Manto]]. The film was released in September 2018.<ref name="fp">{{cite news|url=http://www.firstpost.com/entertainment/watch-nawazuddin-siddiqui-aces-mantos-look-and-quirks-in-nandita-das-short-film-3344630.html|title=Watch: Nawazuddin Siddiqui aces Manto's look and quirks in Nandita Das' short film|publisher=Firstpost|date=21 March 2017|access-date=2 June 2017}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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==External links==<br />
*[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0796104/ Shyam] at [[The Internet Movie Database]]<br />
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