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Badar Khalil

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Badar Khalil
بدر خلیل
Born
Badar

(1945-07-05) 5 July 1945 (age 81)
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 titular role in the TV play Bi Jamalo.[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

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Badar Khalil was born on 5 July 1945 in Delhi in British India to a Kashmiri Muslim father and a Delhite mother. Her family moved to Lahore, Pakistan, during Partition of India in 1947.[citation needed]

Career

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In Karachi, her first main appearance was in the drama Ankahi, a classic TV drama written by Pakistani playwright Haseena Moin.[2] 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 was settled there.[2] She continued working in some dramas of Pakistani TV channels.[5]

Personal life

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

Filmography

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Television series

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Film

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Awards and recognition

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YearAwardCategoryResultRef.
1995Lifetime Achievement AwardAward by Government of PakistanWon[4]
1998PTV AwardTribute to Pakistani LegendsWon[4]

See also

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References

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  1. "Badar Khalil opens up about her retirement | SAMAA". Samaa TV.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Fouzia Nasir Ahmad (6 July 2014). "Badar Khalil: End of an era". Pakistan: Dawn. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
  3. 1 2 3 Profile of Badar Khalil on tv.com.pk website Retrieved 1 April 2019
  4. 1 2 3 "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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