Samina Peerzada

Birth : 1955-08-09, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan

History

Samina was born into a Kashmiri family in Lahore, but was raised in Karachi, Sindh Pakistan. After graduating in commerce she chose to pursue a career in acting. After many successful years of acting in television dramas and minor roles in television advertisements Samina was cast in starring roles in several films. She married Usmaan Peerzada, a fellow media personality, in 1975. The couple have two daughters, Anum and Amal. Their younger daughter Amal is a miniature artist.

Profile

Movies

The Valley

Didi

Devastated by his daughter's suicide, an immigrant entrepreneur working in high-tech seeks answers to his lingering questions.

Motorcycle Girl

Julie June

Based on the boundary-breaking motorcycle journeys of Zenith Irfan who, at 20 years of age, is the first Pakistani woman to have made a solo motorcycle journey through the northern regions of the country.

Noor

Waleed's Step-Mother

The telefilm weaves a story between Noor played by Noor Khan and Waleed played by Asim Azhar. Whilst belonging to two different worlds, the pair is shown to have a very similar nature. Both of them have step-parents and dwell in a state of inferiority, waiting for something extraordinary to happen in their life. As Waleed is trying tooth and nail to excel in his musical career, Noor vies to be a doctor and struggles against the injustice of her stepmother.

Mutthi Bhar Mitti

Jamaal recounts to himself the events that led to him leaving India and migrating to Pakistan after The Great Indian Partition, which explains the title and allows for a narration in the past tense.

Shararat

Director

An oversea Pakistani girl come to Pakistan

Inteha

Director

Sara, a young, romantically inclined girl, comes from a well-off background and studies in a prestigious arts college. Her life couldn't get any better, but then, all is shattered when she is forced to marry her feudal cousin, Zafar.

Bulandi

Shaan gives a doll to a crying little girl Reema, when he was only around four years of age and after that both become friends.Their families then split for good due to hatred among them but Shaan and Reema meet each other again without knowing their past.

Mukhra

A coward man tries to take his life after the death of his mother and some criminals try to take the advantage of the situation but than a girl comes in his life and everything changes.

The Blood of Hussain

General's Daughter

A dramatic depiction of the life of Hussain, with allegorical references to the history of the Prophet Muhammad and his descendants. It is prophesied that Young Hussain will one day lead the impoverished masses to a better life. It is his brother, Hasan, however who gains in prominence and when the government is overthrown in a military coup, he tries to adapt. Hussain in the meanwhile gets married and leads a small band of rebels in an attempt to fight the military dictatorship.