| Gulab Chandio | |
| Birth Name: | Ghulam Mohammad Gulab |
| Birth Date: | 1958 1, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Shahmir Chandio village, Nawabshah district, Pakistan |
| Death Place: | Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi, Pakistan |
| Occupation: | Actor |
| Years Active: | 1980–2016 |
| Nationality: | Pakistani |
| Known For: | Noori Jam Tamachi Marvi Chand Grehan Sadori |
| Awards: | Pride of Performance Award (2016) |
| Party: | Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf |
Ghūlām Muḥammad Gūlāb[1] (6 January 1958 – 18 January 2019), commonly known as Gulab Chandio, was a Pakistani television and film actor.[2] During his artistic career he starred in more than 300 Urdu and Sindhi dramas and 6 films.
Gulab was born on 6 January 1958[3] in Shahmir Chandio village, Nawabshah district, in a farming household.[4]
He completed his school and intermediate education in the village. In 1976, he shifted to Karachi and got a clerk's job in the food department. In 1978, he returned to Nawabshah. He had been jailed for taking part in protests after Zulfikar Ali Bhutto's death penalty.[4] [5]
Gulab emerged as a television actor in the early 1980s and started his career in Sindhi dramas.[2] He entered the TV industry in 1982 and made his debut with the Sindhi drama Biyo Shaks (The Other Man).[4] Another source states that his first drama was Khan Sahib (1980).[6] He appeared in various plays and serials, including Sindhi dramas Talash, Saam, Jungle, Jiyapo, Mittia ja Manhoo, and Ghulam, and Urdu serials Zeenat, Rawish, Noori Jam Tamachi, Tipu Sultan, and Saagar ka Aansoo.[4]
He was known for Noori Jam Tamachi, Marvi and Chand Grehan.[2] He also worked in theatre plays and films, his first film was Dushman in which he played the role of an actor. He also played the leading character in another Sindhi film Muhib Sheedi (1990). He also appeared in Syed Noor's Sargam (1995).[4]
Gulab contested the Pakistani general elections from Nawabshah and Karachi twice but lost both times.[4] In 2016,[5] he joined the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf.[2]
In 2016, he was awarded the President's Pride of Performance Award for his services in art and drama.[5]
He died in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi on 18 January 2019.[7] Gulab was a heart patient with chronic diabetes.[8] [9]