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Zeba Bakhtiar (Urdu: زيبا بختيار; born 5 November 1962) is a Pakistani film/TV actress and a television director. She is known for her TV drama Anarkali (1988), the Bollywood romantic drama Henna (1991), and the Lollywood movie, Sargam (1995). She produced and directed a movie Babu in 2001. Zeba won the best actress Nigar Award for the movie Sargam in 1995.

Zeba Bakhtiar زيبا بختيار
Born	(1962-11-05) 5 November 1962 (age 60) Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan
Occupation	Actress producer director
Known for	Henna (1991) Sargam (1995)
Spouses	Salman Galliani ​ ​ (m. 1982, divorced)​ Javed Jaffrey ​ ​ (m. 1989; div. 1990)​ Adnan Sami ​ ​ (m. 1993; div. 1997)​ Sohail Khan Leghari ​ (m. 2008)​
Children	Azan Sami
Parent	Yahya Bakhtiar (father)

Early life and family

Zeba is the daughter of Yahya Bakhtiar, a lawyer, politician and pre-independence Muslim League activist who served as the Attorney General of Pakistan, and also played a key role in framing Pakistan's current constitution.[1][2] Her father belonged to Quetta,[1] while her mother Eva Bakhtiar was an English woman born to Hungarian parents.[3][2] Her father died in 2003,[1] and her mother died in 2011.[4] Her parents met in the UK in the early 1940s and married, with her mother eventually settling in Pakistan in 1949 after graduating from the University College London.[3][4] Zeba has two brothers, Salim and Karim, who are both doctors, and a sister, Saira.[1] She was raised in Quetta,[4] and moved to Karachi later.[1]

Career

Zeba made her television debut with a Pakistan Television drama, Anarkali in 1988. Her melancholic romantic role in Anarkali was widely appreciated. Then, she signed a Bollywood movie Henna in 1991 under the direction of Randhir Kapoor. Henna made Zeba a household name in the subcontinent. Later, she worked in more Bollywood movies like Mohabbat Ki Arzoo (1994), Stuntman (1994), Jai Vikraanta (1995), and Muqadama (1996). But her career in Bollywood didn't make any progress after Henna. Then she came back to Pakistan and worked in Syed Noor directed film Sargam (1995). Her other Lollywood movies include Chief Sahib (1996), Qaid (1996), and Musalman (2001). She produced and directed movie Babu in 2001, and produced a movie Mission 021 in 2014.
Apart from big screen, Zeba also appeared in some popular TV dramas like Tansan, Laag, and Pehli see mohabbat.[5][6]

Personal life

Marriages

Zeba has been married 4 times. Her first husband was Salman Galliani whom she married in the year 1982.[7] In 1989 she married Javed Jaffrey however denied this as rumours. Javed produced a Nikah Nama and the two divorced a year later. In 1993, Zeba came in the limelight because of her marriage to singer and music composer Adnan Sami. Zeba and Adnan got divorced in 1997. They both have a son named Azaan Sami Khan.[3] Zeba then married Sohail Khan Leghari in 2008.[1][8]

Diabetes

Zeba was diagnosed with diabetes before her second marriage.[9] She now participates in the diabetes awareness campaigns on different forums.[10][11]

Social work

She is involved in women's association football in Pakistan as chairwoman of Karachi-based Diya W.F.C.[12]

Filmography

Year	Film	Role	Language
1991	Henna[13]	Henna	Hindi
1994	Mohabbat Ki Aarzoo	Poonam Singh	Hindi
1994	Stuntman	Reena B. Tiwari	Hindi
1995	Jai Vikraanta	Nirmala Verma	Hindi
1995	Sargam[1]	Zeb-un-Nisa	Urdu
1996	Muqadama	Chanchal Singh
1996	Chief Sahib
1999	Qaid	Khushboo
2001	Babu
2001	Musalmaan
2014	O21[1]	as Producer
2015	Bin Roye	Saba's Mother

Television

Accolades

Ceremony	Category	Project	Result
3rd Lux Style Awards[14]	Chairperson's Lifetime Achievement Award	for her contributions to Pakistani entertainment industry	Won
5th Lux Style Awards[15]	Best TV Director (Terrestrial)	Masuri	Nominated
14th Lux Style Awards[16]	Best Film	O21

• 1992 - 37th Filmfare Awards - Best Actress - Henna (nominated)
• 1992 - 37th Filmfare Awards - Best Female Debut - Henna (nominated)
• 1995 - Nigar Awards - Best Actress - Sargam (won)

See also

• List of Pakistani actresses

References

External links

• Zeba Bakhtiar at IMDb

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