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.
Please pray for his soul and the family’s consolation during this time of grief. May Allah the Allmighty forgive him and give him janna’h (ameen) mai … aap sab se request hai k Shafi Muhammad k liye dua-e-maghfirat karain.
No doubt he was a great actor and great person.
Thats indeed a sad news. Shafi Muhammad was undoubtedly one of the best actors Pakistan Television has ever produced. I had always been his big fan. Shafi Muhammad had his own very special style which was calm yet impressive and ofcourse very naturalistic.
Owais, the long play you mentioned was one of my favorite too but I guess its name was “your obedient servant”.
May Allah rest his soul in peace, Ameen.
Allah bless him with Jannah!
I liked him from the beginning. He had a very nice voice.
Surely he will be missed.
The picture reminds of his glory days. This is Aanch right? He had lost a lot of weight in recent years. Bilkul changed?
Inna lillah-e-Wa Inna Illehe Rajioon
My favorite drama in which Shafi took part as the lead character was ‘Officer on Special Duty’. It was a PTV long play and Shafi acts as a honest civil servant who goes to a rural area on special assignment. It was interesting to see how he had to deal with ‘sifarish’, ‘rishwat’, ‘aqarba-parwari’ etc of local feudals who try to buy him to their side.
Chand Garahn was ofcourse his most famous play.