Nadeem (Pakistani actor)

Nadeem
Nadeem
ندیم
Born	Mirza Nazir Baig; 19 July 1941 (age 82); Pakistani
Occupation(s)	Film actor, singer
Years active	1967–present
Relatives	Captain Ehtesham (father-in-law)
Awards	Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan (1997); Nigar Awards (won this award 17 times during his career)
Website	www.supernadeem.com

Mirza Nazir Baig (born 19 July 1941), best known by his screen name Nadeem (

Pakistani actor, singer and producer. He is regarded as the best all-time Pakistani actor in a heroic role. He has appeared in over two hundred films (mostly as a main lead) during his 56-year-long career. It is said that Lollywood's history is incomplete without Nadeem's name. He has also been honored with the Pride of Performance award in 1997. He has also won a record 16 Nigar Awards

as an actor.

Early life

Nadeem was born on 19 July 1941 in

Pakistani film industry.^[1]

Nadeem, and artists Talat Hussain, M. Zaheer Khan, Aftab Azeem, Saleem Jafry, and TV producer Iqbal Haider, were all discovered at a club in Karachi in the 1960s. He and his friends, Ameer Ahmed Khan and Qasim Siddiqui, won several music competitions. At one of those musical competitions, he was noticed by singer Ferdausi Rahman. She was impressed by his singing talent and encouraged him to try playback singing in Dhaka's film industry.^[1]

Career

Nadeem's film career spans more than 50 years.

Darpan, Waheed Murad, Allauddin and Syed Kamal over his long career.^[3]

Playback singers

In his career, Nadeem has been mostly voiced by Ahmed Rushdi and later Akhlaq Ahmed provided his voice. He acknowledged that songs in Rushdi's voice made his work easier and played a significant role in his success.^[7]

Selected filmography

Chakori (1967) (Nadeem's debut film)^[1]^[3]^[2]^[5]
Behan Bhai (1968)
Diya Aur Toofan (1969)
Daman Aur Chingari (1973)
Aina (1977)
Bandish (1980)^[3]

Dillagi (1974)
Shama (1974)^[3]
Phool Mere Gulshan Ka (1974)^[3]
Anari (1975)^[3]
Jab Jab Phool Khile (1975)^[3]

Pehchan (1975)
Umang
Naadan
Chote Sahab
Daagh
Mutthi Bhar Chawal (1978)^[3]
Amber (1978)
Pakeeza (1979)^[3]
Dehleez (1983)
Bollywood film^[3]^[1]

Mukhra (1988) - a film produced by Nadeem Baig also^[3]^[1]
Bulandi (1990)^[3]^[5]
Anhoni (1993)
Sargam (1995)
Jeeva (1995)
Jo Darr Gaya Woh Mar Gaya (1995)
Umar Mukhtar (1997)
Dupatta Jal Raha Hai (1998)
Inteha (1999)^[3]^[5]
Koi Tujh Sa Kahan (2005)^[3]

Mein Ek Din Laut Kay Aaoon Ga (2007)
Love Mein Gum
(2011)
Main Hoon Shahid Afridi (2013)
The System (2014)
Hijrat (2016)
Sikander
(2016)
Shaan-e-Ishq (2017)
Superstar (2019)
Parey Hut Love (2019)
Zarrar (2020)
Tere Bajre Di Rakhi (2022)

Television

Year	Title	Channel
2005	Riyasat	ARY Digital
2007	Saheli	Hum TV
2014	Jaan Hatheli Par	PTV Home
2015	Mol	Hum TV
2016	Tum Yaad Aaye	ARY Digital
2016	Rishta Hai Jaisey Khawab Sa	Aaj Entertainment
2022	Ishq E Laa	Hum TV
2022	Khaab Toot Jaatay Hain	Hum TV

Awards and recognition

Nigar Award for a total of 16 times between 1967 and 2002 as an actor including the Nigar Award Millennium Award in 1999^[8]

Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan in 1997^[2]

Lux Style Awards

Ceremony	Category	Project	Result
2nd Lux Style Awards	Chaiperson's Lifetime Achievement Award	for his contributions to Pakistani film industry	Won^[9]
4th Lux Style Awards	Best TV Actor (Satellite)	Jaisay Jante Nahi	Nominated^[10]
18th Lux Style Awards	Best Film Actor	Superstar	Nominated^[10]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Profile: The legend speaks Dawn (newspaper), Published 29 July 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2021
^ ^a ^b ^c Ali Zain (19 July 2016). "Renowned actor Nadeem celebrating 75th birthday today (includes Nadeem Baig's Pride of Performance award info)". Daily Pakistan (newspaper). Retrieved 26 March 2021.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o "Actor Nadeem Baig's profile". Cineplot.com website. 19 May 2010. Archived from the original on 11 October 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
^ Film director Ehtesham dies at 75 Dawn (newspaper), Published 19 February 2002, Retrieved 26 March 2021
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Some milestones in the Pakistani film industry The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 23 October 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2021
^ (Saadia Qamar) Finding a new star The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 3 August 2010, Retrieved 26 March 2021
^ "Dawn News package on YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
^ "Pakistan's "Oscars": The Nigar Awards". Film Reviews on The Hotspotonline website. 24 November 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
^ "https://web.archive.org/web/20030715233432/http://www.luxstyleawards.com/winners/pastwinners.asp"
^ "https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/495568-who-won-at-the-mega-lux-style-awrds-2019" (18)

External links

Official website
Nadeem at
IMDb
(Filmography of Nadeem on IMDb website)

[Dawn-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Profile: The legend speaks Dawn (newspaper), Published 29 July 2012. Retrieved 26 March 2021

[dailypakistan-2] Ali Zain (19 July 2016). "Renowned actor Nadeem celebrating 75th birthday today (includes Nadeem Baig's Pride of Performance award info)". Daily Pakistan (newspaper). Retrieved 26 March 2021.

[cineplot-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o "Actor Nadeem Baig's profile". Cineplot.com website. 19 May 2010. Archived from the original on 11 October 2011. Retrieved 15 July 2022.

[Dawnobit-4] Film director Ehtesham dies at 75 Dawn (newspaper), Published 19 February 2002, Retrieved 26 March 2021

[Tribune-5] Some milestones in the Pakistani film industry The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 23 October 2010. Retrieved 26 March 2021

[6] (Saadia Qamar) Finding a new star The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 3 August 2010, Retrieved 26 March 2021

[7] "Dawn News package on YouTube". YouTube. Archived from the original on 19 December 2021. Retrieved 26 March 2021.

[8] "Pakistan's "Oscars": The Nigar Awards". Film Reviews on The Hotspotonline website. 24 November 2017. Retrieved 26 March 2021.

[9] "https://web.archive.org/web/20030715233432/http://www.luxstyleawards.com/winners/pastwinners.asp"

[10] "https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/495568-who-won-at-the-mega-lux-style-awrds-2019" (18)

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Arts
1950s	(1958) (1958) (1958) Professor (1958)
1960s	(1960) (1960) (1960) (1962) (1962) (1962) (1962) (1963) (1963) (1965) (1965) (1965) (1965) (1965) (1965) (1966) (1966) Khwaja Moinuddin (1966) Ayat Ali Khan (1966) Ustad Haji Mohammad Sharif (1967) (1967) Rafi Peer (1967) (1968) (1968) (1969) (1969) (1969) Umeed Ali Khan (1969) (1969) (1969)
1970s	(1970) (1970) (1970) (1970) (1971) (1971) (1974) (1977) (1978) (1978) Ustad (1978) (1978) (1978) (1979) (1979) Kishwar Sultan (1979) Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (Sitar Nawaz) (1979) (1979) (1979) Mureed Buledi (1979) (1979) (1979) Mohammad Azam Chishti (1979) (1979) (1979)
1980s	(1980) (1980) (1980) (1980) (1980) Aazar Zubi (1980) (1980) (1980) (1981) (1981) Mansoor Tabish (1981) Qari Syed Ali Sharfuddin Yemni (1981) Nanhe Ali Khan (music performer)) (1981) (1981) Alexander Robert (1981) (1981) (1981) (1982) Qari Ubaidur Rehman (1982) (1982) (1982) (1982) (1983) Ustad Nazar Hussain (1983) (1983) Qari (1984) (1984) (1984) (1984) (1985) Ustad Chhote Ghulam Ali Khan (1985) (1985) (1985) (1985) (1985) (1985) (1985) (1985) (1986) (1986) (1986) (1986) (1986) (1986) (1986) (1986) (1987) Ustad Abdul Majeed Dehlvi (1987) (1987) (1987) Sain Akhtar Hussain (1987) Qari Izhar Ahmed Thanvi (1987) Shaista Zaid (1988) (1988) (1988) (1988) (1988) Ustad Kabir Khan (1989) (1989) (1989) (1989) (1989) Jameel Bismil (1989) (1989) Ameer Khan (1989) Amjad Hussain (1989) (1989) (1989) (1989) (1989) (1989) (1989)
1990s	(1990) (1990) Khalid Hameed Baig (1990) (1990) Ustad Sadiq Ali Khan Mando (1990) (1990) Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (Gwalior gharana) (1990) (1990) (1990) Qari Mohammad Fida (1990) (1990) (1990) (1990) (1991) Khursheed Alam known as Gohar Qalam (1991) (1991) (1991) (1991) (1992) (1992) Noor Mohammad Lashari (1992) (1992) (1992) (1992) (1992) (1992) (1992) (1992) (1992) (1992) (1993) Ismail Shahid (1993) (1993) (1993) (1993) Syed Manzoorul Kaunain (1993) Qari Syed Buzurg Shah Al-Azhari (1993) (1993) (1993) (1994) (1994) Shahid Jalal (1994) Qari Mohammad Younus (1994) Qari Syed Ali Abid Naqvi (1994) (1994) (1994) Hamid Ali Bela (1994) (1994) (1994) (1994) (1994) (1994)) (1994) (1994)) (1994) (1994) (1995) Ustad Talib Hussain Khan (1995) (1995) (1995) (1995) (1995) (1995) (1996) Mashooq Sultan (1996) (1996) (1996) Qari Noor Mohammad (1996) (1996) (1996) (1996) (1996) (1997) (1997) (1997) (1997) (1997) (1997) (1998) (1998) (1999) (1999) (1999) (1999) (1999) (1999) (1999) (1999) (1999) (1999)
2000s	(2000) (2000) (2001) (2001) (2002) (2002) (2002) (2002) (2002) (2002) (2002) (2003) (2003) Syed Afzal Hussain (2003) (2003) Abdul Aziz Baloch (2003) Ghulam Mustafa (2003) Majeed Khan (sarangi player) (2003) (2003) (2003) (2003) (2004) (2004) Mahtab Akbar Rashdi (2004) Chishty Bin Subh-o-Mujahid (2004) Navid Shahzad (2004) (2004) S. M. Naqi (2004) Haji Atta Muhammad (2004) Moin Niazi (2004) (2004) (2004) (2004) Samiur Rahman (2004) (2004) (2005) (2005) (2005) (2005) (2005) (2005) (2005) (2006) (2006) (2006) (2006) (2006) (2006) (2006) Ustad Qamar uz Zaman (2006) (2006) (2006) (2006) (2006) (2006) (2006) (2006) (2007) (2007) (2007) (2007) (2007) (2007) (2008) Akhtar Munir (2008) Gopal Das (2008) Haji Mehr Ali (2008) Haji Sher Ali (2008) Nahid Raza (2008) Gul Bahar Bano (2008) Mujahid Hussain (2008) Rasheed Malik (2008) (2008) Abdul Karim Balouch (2008) (2008) M. Hanif Raza (2008) Nasreen Askari (2008) (2008) Mansoor Rahi (2008) (2008) (2008) (2009) (2009) Muhammad Younus Khan (2009) Emanuel Philip (2009) (2009) Shabbir Hussain (2009) Manzoor Hussain (2009) Parveen Nazzar (2009) Javaid Tufail Niazi (2009) Babar Ali Niazi (2009) Hajra Mansoor (2009) (2009) (2009) Khalifa Muhammad Irshad Beg (2009) Naseem Sultan (2009) (2009) Sahib Dino Mallah (2009) Satish Chandra Anand (2009) Rubeena Malik (2009) (2009) Muhammad Gul (2009) Mehnaz Hyat (2009) Abdul Qadir (2009) (2009) (2009) (2009)
2010s	(2010) (2010) (2010) Zulfiqar Ali (2010) (2010) (2010) (2010) (2010) (2010) (2010) (2010) (2011) (2011) (2011) (2011) S. Amjad Bukhari (2011) (2011) S.H. Qasim Jalali (2011) (2011) (2011) Ustad Hussain Bukhsh Gullu (2011) (2011) Ustad Muhammad Alam (2011) Ustad (2011) Wazir Afzal (2011) Zafar Kazmi (2011) (2011) (2012) Mohsin Gillani (2012) (2012) (2012) (2012) (2012) Rahat Naveed Masud (2012) (2012) (2012) (2013) Muhammad Ajmal Khan (2013) (2013) (2013) (2013) (2013) (2013) Shahid Abdullah (2014) Ustad Shafiquz Zaman Khan (2014) (2014) (2014) (2014) (2015) (2015) (2015) (2016) (2016) (2016) (2016) (2016) (2016) (2017) (2017) (2017) Rashid Mehmood (2017) (2017) (2017) (2018) (2018) (2018) (2018) (2018) (2018) (2018) (2018) (2018) (2018) (2019) (2019) (2019) (2019) (2019) (2019)
2020s	Deeba (2020) Ghulam Mohiuddin (2020) Sahir Ali Bagga (2020) Waris Baig (2020) Ghulam Abbas 2020 Saieen Zahoor (2020) Fareed Ayaz (2020) Sarmad Sehbai (2021) Resham (2021) Khalid Masud Gondal (2021) Muhammad Javed (2022) Hafeez Tahir (2023) Sangeeta (2023) Sher Miandad Khan (2023) Ustad Tafu (2023) Anjuman (2023)

v t e Nigar Award for Best Actor
Urdu films	Santosh Kumar (1957) Habib (1958) Darpan (1959) Darpan (1960) Habib (1961) Santosh Kumar (1962) Santosh Kumar (1963) Waheed Murad (1964) Muhammad Ali (1965) Muhammad Ali (1966) Nadeem (1967) Muhammad Ali (1968) Waheed Murad (1969) Muhammad Ali (1970) Muhammad Ali (1971) Nadeem (1972) Muhammad Ali (1973) Muhammad Ali (1974) Nadeem (1975) Shahid (1976) Nadeem (1977) Muhammad Ali (1978) Nadeem (1979) Nadeem (1980) Nadeem (1981) Nadeem (1982) Nadeem (1983) Nadeem (1984) Nadeem (1985) Nadeem (1986) Nadeem (1987) Javed Sheikh (1988) Nadeem (1989) Javed Sheikh (1990) Nadeem (1991) Umer Shareef (1992) Umer Shareef (1993) Ghulam Mohiuddin (1994) Javed Sheikh (1995) Saud (1996) Shaan (1997) Shaan (1998) Shaan (1999) Shaan (2000) Ajab Gul (2001) Moammar Rana (2002) Fahad Mustafa (2017)
Punjabi films	Sudhir (1970) Waheed Murad (1971) Sultan Rahi (1972) Yousuf Khan (1973) Sudhir (1974) Sultan Rahi (1975) Kamal (1976) Yousuf Khan (1977) Asif Khan (1978) Ali Ejaz (1979) Ali Ejaz (1980) Mustafa Qureshi (1981) Ali Ejaz (1982) Mustafa Qureshi (1983) Ayaz Naik (1984) Ghulam Mohiuddin (1985) Afzal Ahmad (1986) Sultan Rahi (1987) Nadeem (1988) Sultan Rahi (1989) Nadeem (1990) Jawed Sheikh (1991) Sultan Rahi (1992) Jawed Sheikh (1993) Yousuf Khan (1994) Sultan Rahi (1995) Izhar Qazi (1996) Izhar Qazi (1997) Moammar Rana (1998) Moammar Rana (1999) Moammar Rana (2000)
Television	Noor Muhammad Lashari (1983) Jameel Fakhri (1984) Zulqarnain Haider (1985) Abid Ali (1986) Rahat Kazmi (1987)

Authority control databases
International	VIAF WorldCat
National	United States