Badar Khalil
Pakistani actress
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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] She has appeared in TV serials on PTV since 1968. She also appeared in Mithu Aur Aapa, a comedy play on Hum TV.
5 July 1945
- Actress
- Director
- Television presenter
Badar Khalil | |
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| بدر خلیل | |
| Born | Badar 5 July 1945 |
| Other names | Bi Jamalo, Aqeela |
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| Years active | 1968–present |
| Notable work | Ankahi Tanhaiyaan Dhoop Kinarey Parosi Doraha Half Plate Marvi. |
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Early life
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
In Karachi, her first main appearance was in the drama Unkahi, 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
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
Television series
- Bi Jamalo (1969) [2][3]
- Half Plate [6]
- Teesra Kinara (1980)
- Ankahi (1982)[2]
- Tanhaiyaan (1985) [2][7][8]
- Dhoop Kinare (1987) [9]
- Parosi (1992)
- Tumse Kehna Tha (1995)
- Chaandni Raatain (2002)
- Quddusi Sahab Ki Bewah (2012)[2]
- Doraha[2]
- Marvi
- Madiha Maliha
- Bulbulay
- Meri Behan Meri Dewrani
- Shukk[2]
- Kitni Girhain Baqi Hain
- Shareek-e-Hayat
- Malaal
- Mere Qatil Mere Dildaar
- Shikwa
- Vasl
- Tanhaiyan Naye Silsilay[10][11]
- Mithu Aur Aapa
Film
Awards and recognition
| Year | Award | Category | Result | Ref. |
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| 1995 | Lifetime Achievement Award | Award by Government of Pakistan | Won | [4] |
| 1998 | PTV Award | Tribute to Pakistani Legends | Won | [4] |