Badar Khalil

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Badar Khalil
بدر خلیل
Born
Badar

(1945-07-05) 5 July 1945 (age 78)
NationalityBritish Indian, Pakistani
Other namesBi Jamalo, Aqeela
Occupations
  • Actress
  • Director
  • Television presenter
Years active1968–present
Notable workAnkahi
Tanhaiyaan
Dhoop Kinarey
Parosi
Doraha
Half Plate
Marvi.
Spouse
(m. 1968; died 1989)
Children
  • Umar Khalil
  • Ibrahim Khalil

Badar Khalil (Urdu: بدر خلیل), also known as 'Baddo Aapa', is a Pakistani television actress.[1][2][3] She gained popularity for her role in the TV play Bi Jamalo portraying herself as Bi Jamalo.[4][4] She has appeared in TV serials on PTV since 1968. She also appeared in Mithu Aur Aapa, a comedy play on Hum TV.

Early life[edit]

Badar Khalil was born in Delhi, British India to a Kashmiri father and a Delhiite mother. Her family moved to Lahore, Pakistan, during the partition in 1947.[citation needed]

Career[edit]

In Karachi, her first main appearance was in the drama Unkahi, a classic TV drama written by Pakistani playwright Haseena Moin.[2] Badar Khalil started her career in 1968 as an anchor in children's shows on PTV. Initially, Badar Khalil gained recognition for the performance she gave in the play Bi Jamalo, in which she played Bi Jamalo herself, directed by Shahzad Khalil whom she had married (in real life) a few years before the drama hit screens.

In July 2014, she was getting ready to move to Canada after a 46-year-long professional acting career to live with one of her sons who lives there.[2] Although she stayed and continued working with ARY Digital and Geo Entertainment.[5]

Personal life[edit]

Badar lives in Karachi, where she had moved with her husband, the TV director Shahzad Khalil.[2] In 1989, her husbanddied of cardiac arrest.[3]

Filmography[edit]

Television series[edit]

Film[edit]

Awards and recognition[edit]

Year Award Category Result Ref.
1995 Lifetime Achievement Award Award by Government of Pakistan Won [4]
1998 PTV Award Tribute to Pakistani Legends Won [4]
2013 1st Hum Awards Lifetime Achievement Award Won [2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Badar Khalil opens up about her retirement | SAMAA". Samaa TV.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Fouzia Nasir Ahmad (6 July 2014). "Badar Khalil: End of an era". Pakistan: Dawn. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  3. ^ a b c Profile of Badar Khalil on tv.com.pk website Retrieved 1 April 2019
  4. ^ a b c d "بدر خلیل کا انٹرویو جسے بدو آپا کے نام سے بھی جانا جاتا ہے". Pakistan Television Corporation: 137.
  5. ^ "'Tanhaiyan' actors make a comeback with sequel". The Express Tribune. 28 February 2021.
  6. ^ "A Haaf Playt on theatre … vis-à-vis Anwar Maqsood". Dawn News. 24 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Old school charm: PTV dramas of the past that shaped our present". The Express Tribune. 2 November 2021.
  8. ^ "35 years after Tanhaiyan". The News International. 7 January 2022.
  9. ^ "Classic TV serials Dhoop Kinare, Taanhaiyaan to be aired in Saudi Arabia". Daily Pakistan. 19 August 2021.
  10. ^ Fatima Zakir. "The new beginning (Badar Khalil in Tanhaiyaan Naye Silsilay)". The News International (newspaper). Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  11. ^ "Tanhaiyan Naye Silsilay: Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue". The Express Tribune. 12 July 2021.

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