Aurangzeb Leghari

Born25 October 1944 (age 81)

Rahimabad, Rahim Yar Khan, British India

AlmamaterCentral Model School Lahore, Government College Lahore, Cadet College Petaro, Jamshoro

Occupations

Actor
Weather presenter

Yearsactive1960–present

Aurangzeb Leghari
اورنگزیب لغاری
Born	(1944-10-25) 25 October 1944 (age 81) Rahimabad, Rahim Yar Khan, British India
Alma mater	Central Model School Lahore, Government College Lahore, Cadet College Petaro, Jamshoro
Occupations	Actor Weather presenter
Years active	1960–present
Awards	Pride of Performance Award (2014)

Aurangzeb Leghari (born 25 October 1944) is a Pakistani TV actor who has been working in TV dramas since the 1970s. His notable TV dramas include Waris, Dehleez, Waqat, Uchay Burj Lahore Dey, and Chanan Tey Dariya. He was honored with the Pride of Performance Award in 2014.^[1]

Leghari was born on 25 October 1944 in Rahimabad, Rahim Yar Khan, British India. He completed his education at the Government Central Model School, Lahore. He earned his graduate degree at the Government College Lahore.^[2]

Career

Leghari started his acting career by participating in theatrical plays in the 1960s. His debut TV play was Samjohta, but he got fame for his role in Amjad Islam Amjad's play Waris, telecast in 1979–1980 on PTV. He has performed in some 300 theatrical plays.^[2]^[3]^[4]

He worked in over 300 theatrical plays and he also hosted shows. Then he worked as Weather presenter used to read the weather report on PTV.^[2]

He also appeared in some Urdu films like Naureen, Faslay (1981), and others.^[2]

Personal life

Aurangzeb is married thrice although now he is living a blissful life with his 1st wife and family. He has biologically four children 2 with each also an adopted daughter(of 3rd Wife). He recently stated in an interview that his 2nd marriage lasted only for unpleasant 14 years. However, finally after ages his second wife agreed for a divorce after years of separation.

Since 2024, he has been managing a business alongside his acting career.

Selected filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Network
1973	Aik Mohabbat So Afsanay	Master Ji	PTV
1979	Waris	Chaudhry Niaz Ali	PTV^[5]
1980	Chanan Tey Dariya	Amir	PTV
1981	Dehleez	Jahangir	PTV^[5]
1982	Sona Chandi	Naseeb	PTV
1984	Andhera Ujala	Raheel	PTV^[5]
1985	Saahil	Sajjad	PTV
1985	Apnay Log	Musharraf	PTV
1986	Waqat	Zaid	PTV
1986	Hazaron Raaste	Taimoor	PTV^[2]
1989	Neelay Hath	Abdul Kareem	PTV
1990	Uchay Burj Lahore Dey	Pervaiz	PTV
1990	Chakar-e-Azam	Gohram Khan	PTV
1990	Fishaar	Murtaza Khan	PTV
1991	Tali Thalay	Saeed	PTV
1993	Fareb	Sultan Khan	PTV
1995	Zard Dopehar	Officer	PTV
1996	Paigham Zubani Aur Hai	Muhammad Ali	PTV
1997	Ghar Se Ghar	Sheikh Zubruddin	PTV
1998	Ghulam Gardish	Riyasat Ali	PTV
2002	Thori Khushi Thora Ghum	Dada	PTV
2004	Dillagi	Sahab	PTV
2005	Azal	Rahim	Indus TV
2008	Oops	Hasan	ARY Digital
2010	Namak	Baba Jan	PTV
2010	Awaaz	Sheikh Sahab	ATV
2011	Adhoray Khawab	Jamal	PTV
2011	Al Tash	Javed	PTV
2012	Main	Chaudhary Sahab	PTV
2013	Mere Harjai	Saad's father	ARY Digital
2015	Maazi	Farooq	A-Plus
2016	Piya Be Dardi	Sahir's father	A-Plus
2017	Rani	Qutub Shah	Geo TV
2018	Tu Jo Nahi	Chaudhary Sahib	Express Entertainment
2019	Kaneez		A-Plus TV
2018–19	Beparwaiyaan		PTV Home
2020	Dil Tanha Tanha	Mirha's father	Hum TV
2020	Saraab	Hoorain's father	Hum TV
2021	Ajnabi Humsafar	Aleezay's father	SAB TV
2021	Dobara	Mehru's father	Hum TV
2023	Mohabbat Kay Baad	Jia's father	SAB TV
2023	Tere Siwa	Arshad	Mun TV

Films and Short films

Year	Film	Language
1970	Noreen	Urdu
1978	Saheli	Urdu
1981	Faslay	Urdu
1981	Wafa	Urdu
1982	Ek Din Bahu Ka	Urdu
1992	Dillagi	Punjabi
1992	Shehzada	Urdu
1993	Qasam	Urdu
1995	Dharkan	Urdu
2013	Main Hoon Shahid Afridi	Urdu
2023	Baba Jani	Urdu
2024	200,000	Urdu

Year	Award	Category	Title	Result	Ref.
1993	Nigar Awards	Best Supporting Actor	Qasam	Won	^[6]
2014	Pride of Performance	Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan	Arts	Won	^[1]^[7]^[8]

v t e Recipients of the Pride of Performance for Arts
1950s	Abdur Rehman Chughtai (1958) Zainul Abedin (1958) Hafeez Jalandhari (1958) Professor Abdus Salam (1958)
1960s	Roshan Ara Begum (1960) Fateh Ali Khan (Qawwali singer) (1960) Tassaduq Hussain (1960) Sadequain (1962) Mehdi Ali Mirza (1962) Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum (1962) Ahmed Mohiuddin (1962) Allah Bakhsh (1963) Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi (1963) Noor Jehan (1965) A.S.M. Qamarul Hasan (1965) Zubaida Agha (1965) Ferdausi Begum (1965) Sharif Khan Poonchwaley (1965) Imtiaz Ali Taj (1965) Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (1966) Shakir Ali (1966) Khwaja Moinuddin (1966) Ayat Ali Khan (1966) Ustad Haji Mohammad Sharif (1967) Munshi Raziuddin (1967) Rafi Peer (1967) Ali Imam (1968) Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi (1968) Amanat Ali Khan (1969) Bade Fateh Ali Khan (1969) Leila Arjumand Banu (1969) Umeed Ali Khan (1969) Mohammad Kibria (1969) Anna Molka Ahmed (1969)
1970s	Ismail Gulgee (1970) Farida Khanum (1970) Naheed Niazi (1970) Muslehuddin (1970) Ustad Gul Mohammad Khan (1971) S. M. Ikram (1971) Iqbal Bano (1974) Salamat Ali Khan (1977) Munir Sarhadi (1978) Ahmed Parvez (1978) Ustad Manzoor Ali Khan (1978) Sabri Brothers (1978) Ibn-e-Insha (1978) Molvi Ahmed Mallah (1978) Faiz Mohammad Baloch (1979) Khamiso Khan (1979) Kishwar Sultan (1979) Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (Sitar Nawaz) (1979) Ghulam Ali (1979) Alam Lohar (1979) Mureed Buledi (1979) Misri Khan Jamali (1979) Pathanay Khan (1979) Mohammad Azam Chishti (1979) Ashfaq Ahmed (1979) Nabi Bakhsh Baloch (1979)
1980s	Mohammad Qavi Khan (1980) Ustad Khyal Muhammad (1980) Allan Fakir (1980) Sohail Rana (1980) Khalid Iqbal (1980) Aazar Zubi (1980) Malika Pukhraj (1980) Muhammad Juman (1980) Qari Shakir Qasmi (1981) Nasir Jahan (1981) Mansoor Tabish (1981) Qari Syed Ali Sharfuddin Yemni (1981) Nanhe Ali Khan (music performer))(1981) Roohi Bano (1981) Alexander Robert (1981) Mai Bhagi (1981) Mirza Adeeb (1981) Uzma Gillani (1982) Qari Ubaidur Rehman (1982) Talat Hussain (1982) Tufail Niazi (1982) Reshma (1982) Arsh Muneer (1983) Ustad Nazar Hussain (1983) Atta Shad (1983) Begum Khurshid Mirza (1984) Abida Parveen (1984) Muhammad Ali (1984) Sayed Nafees al-Hussaini, Nafees Raqam (1985) Ustad Chhote Ghulam Ali Khan (1985) Bundu Khan (1985) Mehdi Hasan (1985) Shaukat Hussain (1985) Qari Ghulam Rasool (1985) Siddiq Ismail (1985) Abid Ali (1985) Syed Mehmood Ali (1985) Sabiha Khanum (1986) Shahzad Khalil (1986) Suraiya Multanikar (1986) Firdous Jamal (1986) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1986) Azhar Lodhi (1986) Riaz Batalvi (1986) Intizar Hussain (1986) Amjad Islam Amjad (1987) Ustad Abdul Majeed Dehlvi (1987) Haseena Moin (1987) Aadil Salahuddin (1987) Sain Akhtar Hussain (1987) Qari Izhar Ahmed Thanvi (1987) Shaista Zaid (1988) Ghulam Hassan Shaggan (1988) Mustafa Qureshi (1988) Muzaffar Warsi (1988) Qazi Wajid (1988) Ustad Kabir Khan (1989) Ghulam Ahmed Chishti (1989) Musarrat Nazir (1989) Shafi Mohammad Shah (1989) Kamal Ahmed Rizvi (1989) Jameel Bismil (1989) Bushra Ansari (1989) Ameer Khan (1989) Amjad Hussain (1989) Ustad Salamat Ali Khan (1989) Aziz Mian (1989) Talish (1989) Maharaj Ghulam Hussain Kathak (1989) Jamil Naqsh (1989) Enver Sajjad (1989)
1990s	Salim Nasir (1990) Daud Kamal (1990) Khalid Hameed Baig (1990) Shaukat Ali (1990) Ustad Sadiq Ali Khan Mando (1990) Ustad Hamid Ali Khan (1990) Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (Gwalior gharana) (1990) Ahmed Saeed Nagi (1990) Qari Mohammad Fida (1990) Parveen Shakir (1990) Iftikhar Arif (1990) Ibrahim Jalees (1990) Jamiluddin Aali (1991) Khursheed Alam known as Gohar Qalam (1991) Khayyam Sarhadi (1991) Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi (1991) Ata ul Haq Qasmi (1991) Nayyar Ali Dada (1992) Shakeel (Yousuf Kamal) (1992) Noor Mohammad Lashari (1992) Tariq Aziz (1992) Mustansar Hussain Tarar (1992) Pervez Malik (1992) Jawed Iqbal (1992) Mian Ijazul Hasan (1992) Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman (1992) Munir Niazi (1992) Naseem Hijazi (1992) Mian Sheheryar (1992) Mushtaq Gazdar (1992) Waheed Qureshi (1993) Ismail Shahid (1993) Saeed Akhtar (1993) Ali Ejaz (1993) S. H. Hashmi (1993) Syed Manzoorul Kaunain (1993) Qari Syed Buzurg Shah Al-Azhari (1993) Agha Nasir (1993) Farooq Qaiser (1993) Bashir Mirza (1994) Ahmad Bashir (1994) Shahid Jalal (1994) Qari Mohammad Younus (1994) Qari Syed Ali Abid Naqvi (1994) Mehr Abdul Haq (1994) Nisar Bazmi (1994) Hamid Ali Bela (1994) Zareena Baloch (1994) Anwar Maqsood (1994) Shujaat Hashmi (1994) Qateel Shifai (1994) Zamir Niazi (1994)) Tufail Hoshiarpuri (1994) Nahid Siddiqui (1994)) Laeeq Ahmed (1994) Abdus Salam (newscaster) (1994) Allah Rakha (sarangi) (1995) Ustad Talib Hussain Khan (1995) Colin David (1995) Shoaib Hashmi (1995) Rauf Khalid (1995) Laila Shahzada (1995) Hajra Masroor (1995) Khursheed Ahmad (1996) Mashooq Sultan (1996) Safeerullah Lehri (1996) Afzal Ahsan Randhawa (1996) Qari Noor Mohammad (1996) Rubina Khalid (1996) Fatima Surayya Bajia (1996) Sehba Akhtar (1996) Mohammad Ali Shah (surgeon) (1996) Ahmad Rahi (1997) Ahmed Ghulam Ali Chagla (1997) Nadeem Baig (1997) Abdul Hameed (1997) Masroor Anwar (1997) Ahmad Ali Khan (1997) Akhtar Chanal Zahri (1998) Mumtaz Mirza (1998) Suhrab Faqir (1999) Dilawar Figar (1999) Salima Hashmi (1999) Anwar Masood (1999) Anita Ghulam Ali (1999) Zafar Iqbal (poet) (1999) Khalid Abbas Dar (1999) Khatir Ghaznavi (1999) Mujahid Kamran (1999) Raza Mir (1999)
2000s	Amjad Parvez (2000) Sharif Kunjahi (2000) Shamsher-ul-Hyderi (2000) Jaun Elia (2000) Kajjan Begum (2001) Kamaluddin Ahmed (2001) Athar Shah Khan Jaidi (2001) Jameel Fakhri (2002) Nazia Hassan (2002) Deena M. Mistri (2002) Askari Mian Irani (2002) Himayat Ali Shair (2002) Shoaib Mansoor (2002) Jilani Kamran (2002) Ajmal Khan (botanist) (2002) Kanwal Naseer (2002) Iftikhar Ahmad (2003) Ada Jafri (2003) Syed Afzal Hussain (2003) Syed Munawwar Saeed (2003) Abdul Aziz Baloch (2003) Ghulam Mustafa (2003) Majeed Khan (sarangi player) (2003) Muneeza Hashmi (2003) Muhammad Ali Siddiqui (2003) Imdad Hussaini (2003) Muhammad Usman Diplai (2004) Yousuf Khan (actor) (2004) Mahtab Akbar Rashdi (2004) Chishty Bin Subh-o-Mujahid (2004) Navid Shahzad (2004) Salahuddin Toofani (2004) S. M. Naqi (2004) Haji Atta Muhammad (2004) Moin Niazi (2004) Shahida Parveen (2004) Tina Sani (2004) Niaz Ahmed (2004) Samiur Rahman (2004) Tariq Rahman (2004) Rais Khan (2005) Arif Lohar (2005) Rangeela (2005) Muhammad Mansha Yaad (2005) Shabnam Shakeel (2005) Abdul Rauf Rufi (2005) Khawaja Najmul Hassan (2005) Amir Adnan (2006) Asghar Nadeem Syed (2006) Arshad Mehmood (2006) Arfa Karim (2006) Fareed Ayaz (2006) Nayyar Kamal (2006) Tassawar Khanum (2006) Ustad Badar uz Zaman (2006) Ustad Qamar uz Zaman (2006) Shafqat Tanvir Mirza (2006) Zehra Nigah (2006) Khalida Hussain (2006) Ghazi Sial (2006) Nayyara Noor (2006) Masood Akhtar (2006) Aftab Iqbal Shamim (2006) Naheed Akhtar (2007) Shaan (2007) Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan (Kirana gharana) (2007) Asad Amanat Ali Khan (2007) Hamid Ali Khan (2007) Faakhir Mehmood (2007) Munnu Bhai (2007) Munni Begum (2008) Akhtar Munir (2008) Gopal Das (2008) Haji Mehr Ali (2008) Haji Sher Ali (2008) Nahid Raza (2008) Gul Bahar Bano (2008) Mujahid Hussain (2008) Rasheed Malik (2008) Sultana Siddiqui (2008) Abdul Karim Balouch (2008) Abdul Qadir Junejo (2008) M. Hanif Raza (2008) Nasreen Askari (2008) Shafqat Amanat Ali (2008) Mansoor Rahi (2008) Tari Khan (2008) Noorul Huda Shah (2008) Rasheed Naz (2009) Ustad Shafqat Ali Khan (2009) Muhammad Younus Khan (2009) Emanuel Philip (2009) Rehana Siddiqui (2009) Shabbir Hussain (2009) Manzoor Hussain (2009) Parveen Nazar (2009) Javaid Tufail Niazi (2009) Babar Ali Niazi (2009) Hajra Mansoor (2009) Behroze Sabzwari (2009) Obaidullah Baig (2009) Khalifa Muhammad Irshad Beg (2009) Naseem Sultan (2009) Ghous Bux Brohi (2009) Sahib Dino Mallah (2009) Satish Chandra Anand (2009) Rubeena Malik (2009) Badar Munir (2009) Muhammad Gul (2009) Mehnaz Hyat (2009) Abdul Qadir (2009) Ghayyur Akhtar (2009) Aslam Farrukhi (2009) Ali Moeen Nawazish (2009)
2010s	Afzal Tauseef (2010) Musarrat Misbah (2010) Rabia Zuberi (2010) Zulfiqar Ali (2010) Mahmood Shaam (2010) Hameed Akhtar (2010) Fahmida Riaz (2010) Shahid Nadeem (2010) Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo (2010) Masood Mufti (2010) Masood Ashar (2010) Habib-ur-Rehman (2011) Khalida Inayat Noor (2011) Khan Tehsil (2011) Abdul Rahim Nagori (2011) S. Amjad Bukhari (2011) S. B. John (2011) S.H. Qasim Jalali (2011) Samina Ahmad (2011) Sohail Ahmed (2011) Ustad Hussain Bukhsh Gullu (2011) Khalid Ahmad (2011) Ustad Muhammad Alam (2011) Ustad Sharafat Ali Khan (2011) Wazir Afzal (2011) Zafar Kazmi (2011) Moin Akhter (2011) Sahira Kazmi (2012) Mohsin Gillani (2012) Nauman Ijaz (2012) Saba Hameed (2012) Jawed Sheikh (2012) Meera (2012) Rahat Naveed Masud (2012) Lutfullah Khan (2012) Kazim Pasha (2012) Tahira Syed (2013) Muhammad Ajmal Khan (2013) Alamgir (2013) Shahida Mini (2013) Naghma (2013) Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema (2013) Cecil Chaudhry (2013) Naseeruddin Saami (2013) Shahid Abdullah (2014) Ustad Shafiquz Zaman Khan (2014) Aurangzeb Leghari (2014) Nazir Leghari (2014) Ayub Khawar (2014) Mir Mohammad Ali (TV comedian) (2015) Ayesha Haroon (2015) Saleem Kausar (2015) Saba Qamar (2016) Waseem Abbas (2016) Wajahat Masood (journalist) (2016) Gulab Chandio (2016) Nathoo Khan (2016) Khalid Butt (2016) Ejaz Qaiser (2016) Sarmad Khoosat (2017) Humaira Channa (2017) Ghazi Salahuddin (2017) Rashid Mehmood (2017) Shakir Shuja Abadi (2017) Zulfiqar Bhutta (2017) Aslam Pervaiz (2018) Ghulam Haider (musician) (2018) Amin Hafeez (2018) A. Nayyar (singer) (2018) Bilqees Khanum (2018) Rauf Parekh (journalist) (2018) Amanullah (comedian) (2018) Nighat Chaudhry (classical dancer) (2018) Nighat Butt (2018) Zareen Panna (2018) Ishrat Fatima (newsreader) (2019) Reema Khan (2019) Arshad Sharif (journalist) (2019) Nasir Adeeb (2019) Shabbir Jan (2019) Iftikhar Thakur (2019)
2020s - present	Deeba (2020) Ghulam Mohiuddin (2020) Saba Hameed (2020) Sahir Ali Bagga (2020) Waris Baig (2020) Ghulam Abbas 2020 Saieen Zahoor (2020) Fareed Ayaz (for qawwali group member Abu Muhammad) (2020) Sarmad Sehbai (2021) Resham (2021) Sakina Samo (2021) Khalid Masud Gondal (2021) Humayun Saeed (2021) Ayaz Gul (2022) Sarah Khan (2022) Shehryar Zaidi (2022) Hafeez Tahir (2023) Sangeeta (2023) Sher Miandad Khan (2023) Ustad Tafu (2023) Anjuman (2023) Naghma (2023) Agha Hasan Askari (2024)

Aurangzeb Leghari

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