Pakistan’s famous TV, Radio and Film artist Shafi Muhammad Shahpassed away on Saturday, November 17, 2007. He was 57. He was suffering from many ailments. After a severe pain attack on saturday he was rushed to the hospital but he couldn’t survive. Quoting the Daily Times:
Shafi featured in more than 50 drama serials and over 100 long plays on PTV and other channels.
Shafi started his career as a broadcaster at Radio Pakistan Karachi. Later he moved to Lahore and lived at the home of Mohammad Ali and Zeba for few years. There he started his movie career. He became famous after doing few leading roles in Ashfaq Ahmed’s series ‘ek haqeeqat sau afsaane’. In early 80s Shafi worked in a very famous serial ‘deewareN’.
His other famous performances include those in ‘chand grahan’, ‘aanch’, ‘nasal’ and ‘jungle’. Shafi Muhammad also took part in many Sindhi plays at PTV. His movie career was not very long. He worked in 4 movies. Three of them were ‘talaash’, ‘Rubi’ and ‘biwi ho to aisi’.
Shafi also tried politics and contested the 2002 elections for the National Assembly from Karachi on the ticket of Pakistan Peoples Party but lost.
We have lost a great Actor
Oh God, such a Loss. He was my favorite actor…full of grace and charm. May his soul rest in peace and may Allah give his family the courage to bear this major loss.
He will always be missed.
Shafi Muhammad Shah was good actor. He was kind hearted man.
May Allah (swt) bless his soul and grant him jannah, ameen.
“Inna Lillahe wa inna Elaihe Rajeoon”
great loss for the artist industry of Pakistan.
May Allah shower His blessings on him.
Shafi Muhammad Shah will be missed.
we will miss Shafi Mohammad because he was actor of good days and those days will never be back which he had seen and that golden era of our Televion and films which is still remember those whoes Zameer is Zinda.
shakeel hussain
Sialkot
A shocking new!!! Shafi Muhammad passes away. No doubt a GREAT TV Artist with marvallous sound pitch after Filmstar Muhammad Ali. An irrepairable loss.
Great artists, of whatever line, do not really belong to a Nation - they belong to the whole world and - because in the final analysis, they belong to the Art. My sincere condolences!