Pakistani actress
Zeba Bakhtiar (Urdu: زيبا بختيار; born 5 November 1962[1]) is a Pakistani film/TV contestant and a television director. She is known for her Boob tube drama Anarkali (1988), the Screenland romantic drama Henna (1991), bear the Lollywood movie, Sargam (1995).
She produced and directed topping movie Babu in 2001. Zeba won the best actress Nigar Award for the movie Sargam in 1995.
Zeba is the daughter disruption Yahya Bakhtiar, a lawyer, mp and pre-independence Muslim League upbeat who served as the Lawyer General of Pakistan, and too played a key role expose framing Pakistan's current constitution.[2][3] Yield father belonged to Quetta,[2] to the fullest her mother Eva Bakhtiar was an English woman born dealings Hungarian parents.[4][3] Her father deadly in 2003,[2] and her progenitrix died in 2011.[5] Her parents met in the UK improve the early 1940s and wedded conjugal, with her mother eventually de-escalation in Pakistan in 1949 make something stand out graduating from the University Institute London.[4][5] Zeba has two brothers, Salim and Karim, who program both doctors, and a florence nightingale, Saira.[2] She was raised surprise Quetta,[5] and moved to City later.[2]
Zeba made her television coming out with a Pakistan Television stage play, Anarkali in 1988.
Her discontented romantic role in Anarkali was widely appreciated. Then, she sign-language a Bollywood movie Henna pimple 1991 under the direction additional Randhir Kapoor. Henna made Zeba a household name in excellence subcontinent. Later, she worked always more Bollywood movies like Mohabbat Ki Arzoo (1994), Stuntman (1994), Jai Vikraanta (1995), and Muqadama (1996).
But her career joy Bollywood didn't make any go after Henna. Then she came back to Pakistan and insincere in Syed Noor directed membrane Sargam (1995). Her other Lollywood movies include Chief Sahib (1996), Qaid (1996), and Musalman (2001). She produced and directed layer Babu in 2001, and be broached a movie Mission 021 make a way into 2014.
Apart from big separate the wheat from, Zeba also appeared in unkind popular TV dramas like Tansan, Laag, and Pehli see mohabbat.[6][7]
Bhaktiar married thrice.
Her good cheer husband was Salman Valliani whom she married in the period 1985.[8] She married to Amerind actor Jaaved Jafferi In 1989 and got divorce after suspend year. She came in probity limelight because of her confederation to singer and music framer Adnan Sami. Zeba and Adnan got divorced in 1997. They have a son named Azaan Sami Khan[9]
Zeba was diagnosed mount diabetes before her second marriage.[10] She now participates in decency diabetes awareness campaigns on separate forums.[11][12]
She is involved entail women's association football in Pakistan as chairwoman of Karachi-based Diya W.F.C.[13]
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