Tahira Wasti Explained

Tahira Wasti
طاہرہ واسطی
Birth Name:Tahira Shah
Birth Date:1944
Birth Place:Sargodha, Khushab, Punjab, British India
Death Place:Karachi, Pakistan
Years Active:1964 - 2012
Spouse:Rizwan Wasti (husband)[1]
Children:Laila Wasti (daughter)
Rehan Wasti (son)
Adnan Wasti (son)
Relatives:Maria Wasti (niece)
Fahad Rehmani (son-in-law)

Tahira Wasti (Punjabi, ur|طاہرہ واسطی) (1944  - 11 March 2012) was a well-known Pakistani writer and television actress.[2] She was one of the most popular Pakistani TV actresses of her time as well as one of the most successful actresses of the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.[3] [4] She is best known for her portrayal of Isabella of Castile in the TV drama Shaheen.

Early life

Tahira was born in 1944 in Sargodha, Punjab, (British India), now in Pakistan. She received her early education from Sargodha, and later moved to Lahore for higher education, then Karachi.

Career

Tahira Wasti started her career with writing articles in a magazine at the age of 16, and also worked as an English newscaster on PTV News in 1964.[5] Tahira started working as an actor in the 1968 Pakistan Television Corporation in 1968 drama serial Jaib Katra based on a novel by Saadat Hasan Manto.[6] She appeared in a number of TV dramas from 1968 until the 1990s, most of them have become classics of PTV, such as Kashkol, Jaangloos,and Daldal.[7] [8] [9] Her prominent personality made her famous for playing regal roles suitable for representing royal, feudal, or upper-class families, as in TV plays like , Shaheen,and Aakhri Chatan.[10] [11] [12]

She also wrote plays for television and showed a special interest in science fiction.[13]

Personal life

She was the wife of TV actor and English language newscaster Rizwan Wasti; they are the parents of TV actress Laila Wasti.[6] [14] Maria Wasti, a famous TV actress, is her niece.[15]

Illness and death

Tahira had developed heart ailments, diabetes and had been deeply affected by her husband's death in January 2011.[13] She died of natural causes on 11 March 2012, in Karachi, at the age of 68.[6] [16]

Filmography

Television series

Telefilm

Film

As a writer

Honour

In 2021 on 16 August the Government of Pakistan named a street and intersection after her in Lahore.[19]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Actor Rizwan Wasti is dead. Dawn News. 12 August 2021.
  2. http://dunyanews.tv/print_news_eng.php?nid=100321&catid=6&flag=d TV artist Tahira Wasti dies at 68
  3. معروف اداکارہ طاہرہ واسطی کا انٹرویو. TV Times Magazine. 218.
  4. Web site: تاریخی کرداروں سے غیرمعمولی شہرت حاصل کرنے والی اداکارہ طاہرہ واسطی کی برسی. ARY News. September 23, 2022.
  5. Web site: Veteran actress Tahira Wasti remembered. Daily Times. 23 January 2021.
  6. https://www.dawn.com/news/701865/renowned-tv-actress-tahira-wasti-dies-at-age-68 Renowned TV actress Tahira Wasti dies at age 68
  7. Book: South and Southeast Asia Video Archive Holdings, Issue 5. University of Wisconsin--Madison. 81.
  8. Book: Third World International, Volume 12. S. J. Iqbal. 39.
  9. Book: Third World International, Volume 12. S. J. Iqbal. 40.
  10. https://web.archive.org/web/20131203004639/http://www.timesofummah.com/2012/03/12/pak-tv-actress-tahira-wasti-passes-away/ Pakistan TV actress Tahira Wasti passes away
  11. Book: Globe. A. Mahmood. 82.
  12. https://web.archive.org/web/20120315010814/http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012%5C03%5C12%5Cstory_12-3-2012_pg7_3 Tahira Wasti passes away
  13. Web site: BBC Urdu - فن فنکار - پاکستانی فنکارہ طاہرہ واسطی انتقال کرگئیں . BBC News website. 11 March 2012. 14 June 2017.
  14. Web site: Geo Urdu - ٹی وی فنکارہ طاہرہ واسطی انتقال کرگئیں . Geo TV website (in Urdu language) . 11 March 2012 . 14 June 2017 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20160305213031/http://urdu.geo.tv/UrduDetail.aspx?ID=39347 . 5 March 2016 .
  15. Web site: TV actress Tahira Wasti passes away . The Nation newspaper . 2012-03-12 . 14 June 2017 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20131120095500/http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-daily-english-online/national/12-Mar-2012/tv-actress-tahira-wasti-passes-away . 20 November 2013 .
  16. Web site: Veteran television actor Tahira Wasti passes away. The Express Tribune. 11 September 2021.
  17. Web site: Inmemoriam: Nusrat Thakur (1937-2009). Dawn News. 4 July 2021.
  18. Book: Globe. A. Mahmood. 86.
  19. Web site: Lahore streets, intersections to be named after famous personalities. Dawn News. 25 February 2022.
  20. Web site: Best writer serial. daily motions. 11 March 2015 . Indus TV Network. 1 July 2015.

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