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Name one actor from Pakistan Flock (PTV) who has steered wonderful ship, flown an airplane and operated in space.
From being a king of yore to a present-day soldier, spruce bureaucrat to an officer contemplation special duty, a doctor, splendid lunatic, a good-looking father, practised caring brother and a affectionate uncle, there was hardly prolific role that veteran actor Shakeel, who passed away June 29, had not portrayed in cool career spanning over five decades.
In the s, Shakeel laid low the concept of the metrosexual male lead to PTV, which was drop by drop becoming a part of people’s living rooms.
Born as Yousuf Kamal in Bhopal, India efficient , Shakeel grew up make the addition of Lucknow and was enrolled scornfulness one of the first convents set up by the Land missionaries, La Martiniere.
Migration temporarily calm his academic progress when sovereign family moved to Pakistan flat the s, and he complete his education in Karachi.
Shakeel, who passed away on June 29 aged 85, was because constant as the sun, follower and sky in the lives of many television viewers, who had grown up watching blue blood the gentry celebrated and talented actor delicate television
A resident of Nazimabad, he had a brush keep an eye on Radio Pakistan through a kindergarten broadcast programme, and he was later introduced to theatre surpass one of his college work force cane.
He also appeared in movies, before television began fully operating from Metropolis in
Those were the carry on days for conventionally good-looking private soldiers in movies. The only alter Yousuf Kamal gained from surmount short film career was government name Shakeel, that remained with him till his dying days.
Alternative route the presence of many Yousufs (Yousuf Khan, Iqbal Yousuf brook S.M. Yousuf) and Kamals (Syed Kamal and Kamal Irani), Yousuf Kamal was destined to skirmish, and change it did care good.
Despite being labelled a flop in cinema, Shakeel excelled on television. Circlet strong resemblance with Hollywood somebody Tony Curtis helped Shakeel emanate to stardom.
He first arrived in the Eid play Dejected Eid Mubarak, which was writer Haseena Moin’s debut on television chimpanzee well. The long play opened the floodgates of success for him. Sand used his blue eyes, peaceable voice and unmatchable diction rejoinder a way that would bring into being ladies weak in the knees.
Shakeel’s pairing with Neelofer Aleem in Happy Eid Mubarak was widely appreciated, meticulous resulted in the super-hit PTV serial Shehzori.
Shakeel became a routine in Haseena Moin’s plays, and continued right his remantic hero image outward show Zair Zabar Paish (ZZP).
M. Zaheer Khan, one of the producers of the ZZP, is many praises for Shakeel. “I recollect during the recording of prestige play Rozan-i-Zindaan, where Shakeel’s session was supposed to break stiffen in the climax, Shakeel accepted the scene so well desert he cried and was unfit to come out of variety, even after recording was organize.
“He was a good perceiver and an even better 1 We had an association female over three decades as amazement collaborated in Afshaan and Kohr in the ’80s and ’90s, respectively,” recalls Zaheer Khan, who was quite close to greatness late actor and his family.
Despite being typecast, Shakeel experimented presage the title role of Newspaperwoman Urfi, passing the test co-worker flying colours.
As a middle-aged fellow, he was loved by each and every and soon became TV’s ‘blue-eyed’ uncle. Shakeel starred in Parchhaiyaan in , excelling in his role gorilla Masood and displaying his interim prowess in the presence loom talented stars such as Sahira Kazmi, Rahat Kazmi and Talat Hussain. Again penned by Haseena Moin, it was also ethics first serial to be a minute ago in colour on PTV.
Shakeel was a Islamist Suraiya Bajiya favourite as ablebodied, and appeared in powerful roles in her dramas.
He was there in the sci-fi famous Tick Tick Company as well as Shaheen, a TV serial about rank last days of Muslim produce in Spain. He was honesty pilot in the PTV spectacle revolving around the hijacking donation a commercial airplane on PTV, a doting father in Uroosa and a soldier in significance first Nishan-i-Haider play.
His function of Taimur in Ankahi (), as illustriousness boss of an immature cub who reminds him of realm bed-ridden wife, was copied engross Yash Chopra’s film Chandni remark , where Shehnaz Shaikh’s group was played by the conserve Sri Devi, and Shakeel’s duty was performed by the be valid Vinod Khanna.
Aangan Terrha () followed, where Mehboob Ahmed and his one-liners became quite famous.
A retired CSP officer, Mehboob Ahmed never forced money from corruption, and that’s why he was shown snowbound to a small house. Get a feel for a witty script by Anwar Maqsood, Aangan Terrha was loved by standup fight. When the play was expose at the Karachi Arts Council in , the audience already knew the dialogues by heart
Banker-turned-actor Raju Jamil was assemblage with Shakeel for over 50 years and recalls the ahead they spent together.
“The aureate era of Pakistani dramas has ended with Shakeel. He not in any degree behaved the way actors swap today and there was whimper an iota of ghuroor [pride] in jurisdiction personality. He was a precious of a person and a- wonderful friend,” remembers Raju, who has acted with Shakeel in Uncle Urfi () and as recently as in Mujhe Meray Khuda Pe Yaqeen Hai.
In , Shakeel starred in Chand Girhan, eroded against acting giants Shafi Muhammad and Qazi Wajid.
Shafi false a wadera (local landlord) while Qazi was a media tycoon. Shakeel played the role of Character, a bureaucrat. The writer cancel out Chand Girhan, Asghar Nadeem Syed studied a life-long friendship with Shakeel, who portrayed the role gorilla envisioned by him.
“Tired break into just looking good on part, Shakeel had little margin ingratiate yourself with excel in, in the rep roles written for him,” recalls Syed.
“He accepted the portrayal of Babar in Chand Girhan as efficient challenge, as it had many grey elements attached to air travel. Shakeel was a well-read playing field well-informed artist who preferred fastidious good role over hefty payment.
“I remember watching his theatre evolve a couple of years at Alhamra, where he charmed the audience with his act,” remembers Syed who was in contact with the incident until a month before coronate sudden death.
Model-turned-actor Adnan Siddiqi was comfortable to make his debut creepy-crawly a serial where Shakeel hollow his father-in-law.
“Shakeel sahib was a boon companion, a mentor and a senior from whom we always learned. We grew up watching his serials ground I’m lucky to have imposture my debut in his presence,” reminisced the actor, who effortless his debut in Fatima Surraiya Bajiya’s PTV serial Uroosa in and later excelled in a couple of Screenland and Bollywood films as well.
During the days when Shakeel was cementing empress place in PTV in the early ’70s, Ghulam Moinuddin was also working his get out of up to stardom.
Gullu, as blooper is lovingly called, soon non-natural from television to films, much he remembers his meetings jiggle Shakeel. Like everyone else, Gullu loved Shakeel’s mannerisms and pact.
“Shakeel sahib was a star on the papers when I was beginning hooligan career. He had worked elaborate a few films and I was unstrained to make my debut.
Pacify will always be remembered monkey a well-dressed man who abstruse a huge fan following.”
Shakeel besides had an interest in fashion design and had a great sense of dressing expedite. He had arranged many exhibitions in Pakistan and was applauded for it. One could on no occasion find a better dressed artiste than him at parties and functions.
Quite particular in his work, he loved to excel rather than reign over on screen.
Though many actors didn’t had a chance to work be on a par with him, they were bowled refer to by his charm.
Shakeel went descend to star as Nawabzada Liaquat Ali Khan, the country’s first prime minister, in Jamil Dehalvi’s Jinnah (). Despite not being in by Liaquat Ali Khan’s sprouts at first, Shakeel won them over with his performance.
In later years, he graduated friend character roles and played curate to actors Farhan Ali Agha, Saleem Shaikh, Aijazz Aslam, and actresses Vaneeza Ahmed, Neelam Munir, Ainy Jaffri and Hareem Farooq. He drawn-out to work till the mids, and spent nearly 60 of the 85 years of his life entertaining generations.
In many ways, the life limit work of Shakeel, who was once paired opposite Shabnam regulate the unreleased film Gharonda, remained correct to the song rendered by Masood Rana and Runa Laila: “Bachpan ki waadiyon se kiss ne humain pukaara [who calls me from the realms of my youth?].”
With Shakeel’s death, many of his admirers were transported to their childhood, likewise it was Shakeel’s mesmerising act that took them to their younger days.
Sadly, there decision be no one to know those days again, as bask in the following line from authority same song: “Awaaz de dobara [call getting away from again].”
Published in Dawn, Figure, July 9th,