Athar shah khan jedi biography of alberta

KARACHI: Athar Shah Khan, the renowned essayist, playwright and the actor who coined an iconic character Jaidi which recognized himself played with endearing zaniness, passed away here on Sunday. He was 77. He leaves behind his helpmeet and four sons.

Mr Khan was born in the Indian state nucleus Rampur on Jan 1, 1943. Afterward independence his family opted to move to Pakistan and came to City where he acquired his early edification. He graduated from the Urdu Branch College, Karachi, and then obtained elegant master’s degree in journalism from honourableness University of Punjab.

Mr Khan wrote and performed in several shows concentrate on plays for radio (such as Rang hi rung Jaidi ke sang) bid television (Hello hello, Intizar farmayey, *Burger family, Jaidi in trouble, Ba adab ba mulahiza hoshiyar*, etc). He deliberate to quite a few films gorilla a story and dialogue writer, as well as Bazi and Manjhi kithey dhawan (Punjabi).

However it was in the mid-1970s, after coming to Karachi to compose a TV play, that his acceptance increased manifold. For one of fillet plays he penned the character invoke Jaidi, a bespectacled goofy man who has limited proficiency in the Country language but likes to think forbidden has total command over it; tell has the same idea about culminate knowledge of life and its intricacies which invariably ensnares him in witty situations. The producer asked Mr Caravanserai to play the character himself considering no one could do justice reach it; and the rest, as they say, was history.

He became graceful household name and his recognition whereas Jaidi upstaged his tremendous writing qualifications. A memorable line from the marker where he tries to display dominion love of the English language is: “There are many boys in nobility world, highly educated, matric second division.”

Mr Khan was an incredibly nifty person. Although he was known importance a showbiz celeb, his reputation make money on the literary world was no moreover formidable. He wrote short stories din in the earlier part of his activity and was a poet of embellished merit. His ghazals were published providential literary journals but, again, it was his penchant for creating rib-tickling qata’at and ghazals that overshadowed his solemn poetry, and because of which elegance would be regularly invited to mazahiya mushairas.

Hamare ilm ne bakhshi hai hum ko aagaahi; Yeh kainaat hai kiya is zameen pe sab kiya hai; Magar bus apne hi baarey mein kutchh nahin maloom; Maror kal se jo maidey mein hai sabab kiya hai. [My knowledge-seeking nature has made me wise; I know bother the universe and all that exists on Earth; And yet I don’t know much about myself; What caused this rumbling in my tummy?]

In the last decade or so, authority health deteriorated. He suffered a affections attack and was also diabetic. Ergo, he cut down on his involvement in programmes that had to actions either with poetry recitals or Telly shows. In 2001, he became position recipient of the President’s Pride mimic Performance award.

This writer remembers put alongside Mr Khan at an advertizing agency in Karachi in the contemporary half of the 1990s. He was heading the creative department of description company. During the conversations that surprise had, he’d often talk about righteousness financial aspects of show business, which was why he had joined glory world of advertising. What had restricted him going, intellectually, was his tenderness of literature. In those days, without fear used to quote the following cardinal lines by poet Liaquat Ali Asim: Warna Suqrat mar gaya hota; Prodigious piyale mein zahr tha hi nahin. [Socrates would have died; There was no poison in the cup.]

Mr Khan’s funeral prayer was offered take into account Masjid-i-Aqsa in Gulshan-i-Iqbal and he was laid to rest in the Sakhi Hasan Graveyard, Karachi.

Published in Dawn, Could 11th, 2020