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 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!
Sahibah from Belgium its verry painfull news we never find actor like SHAFI MOHAMMAD SHAH.it is verry big loss.God bless him(AMEEN)
shafi mohammad shah was great and handsom and powerful man.we pray for him and his family.My god bless him with jannah ( AMEEN)