The actress advised young actors to work really hard and respect time by being more punctual. Shabnam thanked all her fans for remembering her and giving her so much respect on her visit to Pakistan. Print Story. Veteran Pakistani film actress Shabnam turns More From. Art FBI gets search warrant as agency head accused of 'partisan' actions. Hum toh gaa nahi sakte. Unke izzajat ke bagair hum to gaa nahi sakte. Aap log nahi jante yeh kaun hai aur isko hum kis nazar se dekhte hai. Hum nahi gaa sakte Look, who has come.
Not, without her permission. All eyes were on the lady. Aap gaiye. Maine izzajat de di. Aap baith jaiye. There, she took up the Muslim name of Shabnam and eventually went on to rule the Pakistan film industry for 31 years.
After when she wanted to visit Dhaka, Shabnam had to wait for two years to get a No Objection Certificate needed for her Bangladesh visa.
Later, she found that an anonymous letter writer from Lollywood had requested the ministry not to give her the NOC. Only when she promised to return to Lollywood after visiting her parents did she get the NOC. In , Shabnam finally quit the Pakistan film industry and returned to Dhaka.
The Pakistan government conferred the Lifetime Achievement award on Shabnam in Such statistics clouded the mind when one entered her apartment in the upscale Gulshan neighbourhood of Dhaka.
The watchman at the entrance was warm. It was slightly cold that day and his face half-hidden behind a monkey cap broke into an assuring smile. The soft rays of the winter sun streamed through the window. There, she sat on a red sofa.
Behind her, on the walls, were a few photographs. Some with her composer husband whom she had lost in The rest were with her costar Nadeem Baig. A veteran actress who had equal number of admirers in both Pakistan and Bangladesh had every reason to exude a sense of exclusivity and flaunt her chequered career.
A time recipient of the popular Nigar awards sure had a lot more to put up on display. But Shabnam was different. In fact, she came a pleasant surprise. Unlike many of her peers, she seemed more of a homely matron than a celebrity. The Dhaka traffic snarl had ensured that one had reached her residence close to the afternoon. Lunch with me is mandatory.
You must have whatever there is at home. She, however, was on a diet. Salad and a small portion of rice was what she had. But not before personally serving all the dishes spread on the table. Over lunch, she opened up about how she had landed in the film industry.
Her forefathers were zamindars. My father, Nanu Basak, was a referee. He liked music. My elder sister used to learn singing. But I was more of a tomboy. Though a tomboy, she had a sense of rhythm and would practice dance on her own. It was a song for a courtesan. But the director was persistent. I did what the dance director told me. Her mother was very apprehensive. Of course, she was worried about what people would say.
But her father thought otherwise. He believed she could always return home if she failed and hence, there was no harm in trying. It was on the sets of this film that she met her future husband — composer Robin Ghosh.
For the next film, director Ehtesham was even more ambitious. Two years later, she was cast as the lead of an Urdu film in what was then West Pakistan. She was given an Urdu script written in Bengali. Rehearsals continued for six months. Actor Waheed Murad introduced her to the Pakistani film industry by offering her a lead role in his film Samundar in Shabnam remained active in Lollywood in the s, '70s, and '80s.
She has been nominated for Nigar awards several times, winning it 13 times the most for an actress. She has appeared in over films. Early life Shabnam is actually her film-name. Her real name is Jharna Basak. Her father is Nani Basak, the well known Scout master and football referee from Dhaka.
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