Tahira Wasti
طاہرہ واسطی
Born
Tahira Shah

1944
Sargodha, Khushab, Punjab, British India
Died11 March 2012(2012-03-11) (aged 67–68)[1]
Karachi, Pakistan
NationalityPakistani
Occupations
  • Actress
  • Writer
  • Newscaster
Years active1964 - 2012
SpouseRizwan Wasti (husband)[2]
ChildrenLaila Wasti (daughter)
Rehan Wasti (son)
Adnan Wasti (son)
RelativesMaria Wasti (niece)
Fahad Rehmani (son-in-law)

Tahira Wasti (Punjabi, Urdu: طاہرہ واسطی) (1944 – 11 March 2012) was a well-known Pakistani writer and television actress.[3] She is best known for portrayal of Isabella of Castile in the TV drama Shaheen.[1]

Early life

Tahira was born in 1944 at Sargodha, Punjab, (British India) now in Pakistan.[4] She received her early education from Sargodha and later she moved to Lahore for higher education then Karachi.[4]

Career

Tahira Wasti started her career with writing articles in a magazine at the age of 16 and she also worked as an English newscaster on PTV News in 1964.[1][5] Tahira started working at Pakistan Television Corporation in 1968 by acting in a TV drama serial Jaib Katra based on a novel by Saadat Hasan Manto.[1][6][7] She appeared in a number of TV dramas from 1968 until the 1990s, most of them have become classics of PTV such as Kashkol, Jaangloos and Daldal.[8][9][10] Her prominent personality made her famous for playing regal roles suitable for representing royal, feudal or upper-class families, as in TV plays like Tipu Sultan: The Tiger Lord, Shaheen and Aakhri Chatan.[11][12][6]

She also wrote plays for television and showed special interest in science fiction.[4]

Personal life

She was the wife of TV actor and English language newscaster Rizwan Wasti and was mother of TV actress Laila Wasti.[1][13] Maria Wasti a famous TV actress is her niece.[7]

Illness and death

Tahira had developed heart ailments, depression because of her husband's death and diabetes.[4] She died of natural causes on 11 March 2012, in Karachi, at the age of 68.[1][14]

Filmography

Television series

Telefilm

  • Operation Dwarka 1965[16]
  • Uss Ki Biwi (a telefilm)[3]
  • Karwat

Film

As a writer

  • Deemak (Long play)
  • Parsa (screenplay writer)
  • Hazaron Saal (co-writer)
  • Bheegi Palkain (writer)

Honour

In 2021 on 16 August the Government of Pakistan named a street and intersection after her in Lahore.[17]

Awards and nominations

YearAwardCategoryResultTitleRef.
20051st Indus Drama AwardsBest WriterNominatedBheegi Palkain[18]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Renowned TV actress Tahira Wasti dies at age 68, Dawn (newspaper), Published 11 March 2012, Retrieved 14 June 2017
  2. ↑ "Actor Rizwan Wasti is dead". Dawn News. 12 August 2021.
  3. 1 2 3 4 TV artist Tahira Wasti dies at 68, Dunya News website, Published 11 March 2012, Retrieved 14 June 2017
  4. 1 2 3 4 "BBC Urdu - فن فنکار - پاکستانی فنکارہ طاہرہ واسطی انتقال کرگئیں". BBC News website. 11 March 2012. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  5. ↑ "Veteran actress Tahira Wasti remembered". Daily Times. 23 January 2021.
  6. 1 2 Tahira Wasti passes away, Daily Times newspaper, Published 12 March 2012, Retrieved 14 June 2017
  7. 1 2 "TV actress Tahira Wasti passes away". The Nation newspaper. 12 March 2012. Archived from the original on 20 November 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  8. ↑ South and Southeast Asia Video Archive Holdings, Issue 5. University of Wisconsin--Madison. p. 81.
  9. ↑ Third World International, Volume 12. S. J. Iqbal. p. 39.
  10. ↑ Third World International, Volume 12. S. J. Iqbal. p. 40.
  11. ↑ Pakistan TV actress Tahira Wasti passes away, Times of Ummah (Newspaper), Retrieved 14 June 2017
  12. ↑ Globe. A. Mahmood. p. 82.
  13. ↑ "Geo Urdu - ٹی وی فنکارہ طاہرہ واسطی انتقال کرگئیں". Geo TV website (in Urdu language). 11 March 2012. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 14 June 2017.
  14. ↑ "Veteran television actor Tahira Wasti passes away". The Express Tribune. 11 September 2021.
  15. ↑ "Inmemoriam: Nusrat Thakur (1937-2009)". Dawn News. 4 July 2021.
  16. ↑ Globe. A. Mahmood. p. 86.
  17. ↑ "Lahore streets, intersections to be named after famous personalities". Dawn News. 25 February 2022.
  18. ↑ "Best writer serial". daily motions. Indus TV Network. 11 March 2015. Retrieved 1 July 2015.
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