Shyam (actor), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Shyam (actor)

Indian actor

Date of Birth: 20-Feb-1920

Place of Birth: Sialkot, Punjab, Pakistan

Date of Death: 25-Apr-1951

Profession: actor

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Shyam (actor)

  • Sunder Shyam Chadda (20 February 1920 – 25 April 1951) was a Hindi cinema actor.
  • He began his career in 1942 and worked in various films until his death during the shoot of the 1951 film Shabistan.He originally hailed from Sialkot but grew up in Rawalpindi.
  • Shyam graduated from Gordon College in Rawalpindi.
  • He was a close personal friend of Saadat Hasan Manto and was the inspiration of many of his stories.
  • Even after partition, their bond of friendship endured.
  • One of his most famous movies was Bazaar, released in 1949, in which he starred with Nigar Sultana.
  • He married a Muslim, Mumtaz Qureshi (nickname "Taji"), with whom he had a daughter, Pakistani TV actress Sahira Kazmi, married to actor Rahat Kazmi, and a son named Shakir (born two months after his death), a psychiatrist based in UK.
  • His wife migrated to Lahore, Pakistan, after his premature death in 1951, along with her elder sister, Zeb Qureshi, who was an actress in Bombay.
  • Mumtaz later married a gentleman, Ansari after Shyam's death.Shyam acted in many memorable films: Man ki jeet (1944), Majboor (1948), Dillagi (1949), Patanga (1949), Chandni Raat (1949), Meena Bazaar (1950) and Samadhi (1950).

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