Badar Khalil
Badar Khalil, also known as 'Baddo Aapa', is a Pakistani television actress. She gained popularity for her role in the TV play Bi Jamalo portraying herself as Bi Jamalo. She has appeared in TV serials on PTV since 1968. She also appeared in Mithu Aur Aapa, a comedy play on Hum TV.
Early life
Badar Khalil was born on 5 July 1945 in Delhi in British India to a Kashmiri Muslim father and a Delhite mother. Her family moved to Lahore, Pakistan, during Partition of India in 1947.Career
In Karachi, her first main appearance was in the drama Unkahi, a classic TV drama written by Pakistani playwright Haseena Moin. In July 2014, she was getting ready to move to Canada after a 46-year-long professional acting career to live with one of her sons who lives there. Although she stayed and continued working with ARY Digital and Geo Entertainment.Personal life
Badar lives in Karachi, where she had moved with her husband, the TV director Shahzad Khalil. In 1989, her husband died of cardiac arrest.Filmography
Television series
- Bi Jamalo
- Half Plate
- Teesra Kinara
- Ankahi
- Tanhaiyaan
- Dhoop Kinare
- Parosi
- Tumse Kehna Tha
- Chaandni Raatain
- Quddusi Sahab Ki Bewah
- Doraha
- Marvi
- Madiha Maliha
- Bulbulay
- Meri Behan Meri Dewrani
- Shukk
- Kitni Girhain Baqi Hain
- Shareek-e-Hayat
- Malaal
- Mere Qatil Mere Dildaar
- Shikwa
- Vasl
- Tanhaiyan Naye Silsilay
- ''Mithu Aur Aapa''
Film
- Yeh Dil Aap Ka Huwa
- ''Khulay Aasman Ke Neechay''
Awards and recognition