The third death anniversary of the foremost leading film actress Sabiha Khanum is observed today.
She died on this day in the United States at the age of 84. She is remembered as the First Lady of Pakistan’s silver screen. She was the senior-most film actress and the history of Pakistani films would be incomplete without her.
The famous stage drama writer and poet Nafees Khalili introduced her in his stage drama Butshikan. Her first film which gave her success was Director Anwar Kemal Pasha’s ‘Do Aansoo’ in which she played a lead role against Santosh Kumar. Her Aansoo was the first-ever silver jubilee hit Urdu movie in Pakistan.
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Sabiha played a lead role as the first heroine in many films in the 50s and 60s. People can never forget her roles in Hassan Tariq’s Tehzeeb and then “Ik Gunah Aur Sahi”.
She gave award-winning performances in films during the 1980s and 1990s as well. There are some excellent television dramas to her credit also.
In most of her movies, Sabiha played the lead roles along with her husband, the late Santosh Kumar (Syed Musa Raza), playing the lead role opposite her. The government of Pakistan conferred upon her the Pride of Performance Award in 1986.
