Zeba Bakhtiar: Difference between revisions

| name               = Zeba Bakhtiar<br/>

| image             = Zeba Bakhtiar at PFDC Sunsilk Fashion Week 2010.jpg

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| birth_date         = {{birth date and age|1962|11|5|df=y}}

| known_for    = ''[[Henna (film)|Henna]]'' (1991)<br/>''[[Sargam (1995 film)|Sargam]]'' (1995)

| birth_place        = [[Quetta]], [[Balochistan]], [[Pakistan]]

| parents            = [[Yahya Bakhtiar]] (father)

| children          = Azan Sami

| spouse         = {{plainlist| * {{marriage|Salman Galliani|1982| |end=div}}

* {{marriage|[[Adnan Sami]]|1993 |1997|end=div}}

* {{marriage|Sohail Khan Leghari |2008}}}}

'''Zeba Bakhtiar''' ({{lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|زيبا بختيار}}}}; born 5 November 1962) is a [[Pakistan|Pakistani]] film/TV actress and a television director. She is known for her TV drama ''Anarkali'' (1988), the Bollywood romantic drama [[Henna (film)|''Henna'']] (1991), and the Lollywood movie, ''[[Sargam (1995 film)|Sargam]]'' (1995). She produced and directed a movie ''Babu'' in 2001. Zeba won the best actress [[Nigar Award]] for the movie ''Sargam'' in 1995.

 

Zeba is the daughter of [[Yahya Bakhtiar]], a lawyer, politician and pre-independence [[All India Muslim League|Muslim League]] activist who served as the [[Attorney General of Pakistan]], and also played a key role in framing Pakistan's current [[Constitution of Pakistan|constitution]].<ref name="Dawn"/><ref name="ARY"/> Her father belonged to [[Quetta]],<ref name="Dawn">{{Cite web |url=http://www.dawn.com/news/108677 |title=Yahya Bakhtiar dies |work=Dawn |date=28 June 2003 |access-date=18 May 2020}}</ref> while her mother Eva Bakhtiar was an [[England|English]] woman born to [[Hungarians|Hungarian]] parents.<ref name="TNS">{{cite news |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/instep-today/522369-azaan-sami-khan-discusses-relation-with-father-adnan-sami-khan |title=Azaan Sami Khan discusses relation with father, Adnan Sami Khan |work=The News |date=19 September 2019 |access-date=19 May 2020 |quote=Speaking about family dynamics, Azaan first revealed, "My mother’s mother was English; her parents were Hungarian. My grandfather met her in the early 1940s," he revealed. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190906023529/https://www.thenews.com.pk/magazine/instep-today/522369-azaan-sami-khan-discusses-relation-with-father-adnan-sami-khan |archive-date=6 September 2019}}</ref><ref name="ARY">{{cite news |url=https://arynews.tv/en/zeba-bakhtiar-picture-late-father/ |title='My hero': Zeba Bakhtiar shares a memorable picture |work=ARY News |date=19 February 2020 |access-date=19 May 2020 |quote=Her father Yahya Bakhtiar was a lawyer and Attorney General of Pakistan who played a key role in the framing of the 1973 Constitution of Pakistan. Zeba’s mother was a Hungarian woman.}}</ref> Her father died in 2003,<ref name="Dawn"/> and her mother died in 2011.<ref name="Dawn2">{{cite news |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/597185 |title=Yahya Bakhtiar's wife dies |work=Dawn |date=8 January 2011 |access-date=19 May 2020}}</ref> Her parents met in the UK in the early 1940s and married, with her mother eventually settling in Pakistan in 1949 after graduating from the [[University College London]].<ref name="TNS"/><ref name="Dawn2"/> Zeba has two brothers, Salim and Karim, who are both doctors, and a sister, Saira.<ref name="Dawn"/> She was raised in Quetta,<ref name="Dawn2"/> and moved to [[Karachi]] later.<ref name="Dawn"/>

Zeba made her television debut with a [[Pakistan Television Corporation|Pakistan Television]] drama, ''Anarkali'' in 1988. Her melancholic romantic role in ''Anarkali'' was widely appreciated. Then, she signed a [[Bollywood]] movie ''[[Henna (film)|Henna]]'' in 1991 under the direction of [[Randhir Kapoor]]. ''Henna'' made Zeba a household name in the subcontinent. Later, she worked in more Bollywood movies like  ''Mohabbat Ki Arzoo'' (1994), ''Stuntman'' (1994), ''Jai Vikraanta'' (1995), and ''Muqadama'' (1996). But her career in Bollywood didn't make any progress after ''Henna''. Then she came back to Pakistan and worked in [[Syed Noor]] directed film ''Sargam'' (1995). Her other Lollywood movies include ''Chief Sahib'' (1996), ''Qaid'' (1996), and ''Musalman'' (2001). She produced and directed movie  ''Babu'' in 2001, and produced a movie ''[[O21 (film)|Mission 021]]'' in 2014.<br/>

Apart from big screen, Zeba also appeared in some popular TV dramas like ''Tansan'', ''Laag'', and ''Pehli see mohabbat''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Zeba-bakhtiar |url=https://profilepk.com/zeba-bakhtiar |website=Profiles of Famous Pakistanis |access-date=16 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=زیبا بختیار نے بھارتی فلم ’’حنا‘‘ سے فنی سفر کا آغاز کیا |url=https://www.express.pk/story/177029/ |website=express news |access-date=16 September 2021}}</ref>

Zeba has been married 4 times. Her first husband was Salman Galliani whom she married in the year 1982. In 1989 she married Javed Jaffrey however denied this as rumours. Javed produced a Nikah Nama and the two divorced a year later. In 1993, Zeba came in the limelight because of her marriage to singer and music composer Adnan Sami. Zeba and Adnan got divorced in 1997. They both have a son named Azaan Sami Khan. Zeba then married Sohail Khan Leghari.<ref name="tvcom">{{Cite web |url=http://www.tv.com.pk/celebrity/Zeba-Bakhtiar/331/biography |title=Zeba Bakhtiar Biography &#124; Tv.com.pk |website=www.tv.com.pk}}</ref><ref name="Dawn" /><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/708857/the-buzz-in-conversation-with-zeba-bakhtiar/ |title=The buzz: In conversation with Zeba Bakhtiar |first=Zara Nasir |last=Hafeez |date=May 19, 2014 |website=tribune.com.pk}}</ref><ref name="TNS" />

Zeba was diagnosed with diabetes before her second marriage. She now participates in the diabetes awareness campaigns on different forums.<ref>{{cite web |title=Zeba joins JJ diabetes care |url=https://nation.com.pk/10-Sep-2013/zeba-joins-jj-diabetes-care |website=The Nation |access-date=16 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Zeba Bakhtiar and Johnson and Johnson aspire towards better diabetes care |url=https://asianetpakistan.com/zeba-bakhtiar-and-johnson-and-johnson-aspire-towards-better-diabetes-care/ |website=Asianet Pakistan |access-date=16 September 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Adnan Sami married the star, not person: Zeba Bakhtiar |url=https://zeenews.india.com/home/adnan-sami-married-the-star-not-person-zeba-bakhtiar_414039.html |website=Zee News |access-date=16 September 2021}}</ref>

She is involved in [[women's association football]] in [[Pakistan]] as [[chairwoman]] of [[Karachi]]-based [[Diya W.F.C.]]<ref>{{cite news |last= |first= |date=2016-05-20 |title=A football victory for girls' rights in Karachi |url=https://issuu.com/uninformationcentreislamabad/docs/unp-newsletter-2-2016-web |work=United Nations Pakistan Newsletter Issue No. 2 (2016) |access-date=2021-03-15}}</ref>

| ''[[Henna (film)|Henna]]''<ref name="auto">{{Cite web |title=RIP Rishi Kapoor: 'Henna' will be remembered forever |url=https://www.deccanherald.com/entertainment/rip-rishi-kapoor-henna-will-be-remembered-forever-831921.html |website=DeccanHerald |date=30 April 2020 |language=en |access-date=30 April 2020}}</ref>

| ''[[Stuntman (1994 film)|Stuntman]]''

| ''[[Musalman (film)|Musalmaan]]''

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[[Category:Pakistani expatriate actresses in India]]

[[Category:20th-century Pakistani actresses]]

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