This Women’s Day, here’s honouring 6 female actors

International Women’s Day is a global day celebrated on March 8th every year to commemorate the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. It’s also a day to raise awareness about gender inequality and advocate for women’s rights. The day has been observed for over a century and is an opportunity to honor the contributions of women to society and recognize the work that still needs to be done to achieve gender equality. International Women’s Day is marked by various events, rallies, and conferences worldwide, and its theme changes each year to reflect current issues affecting women’s lives.

Women’s Day — a day to respect and admit all the remarkable women around us. While we celebrate all the inspiring womanish numbers in our lives, let’s also take a look at the important women we see onscreen and hail the actors who have portrayed them. From Sarwat Gilani’s gutsy depiction of Sara in Churails to Alina Khan’s gut-wrenching definition of Biba in Joyland, showbiz is full of talented womanish actors who put their heart and soul into their craft and laboriously uptake places that are empowering, thoughtful and hold substance. 

Hadiqa Kiani

Hadiqa Kiani is a Pakistani singer, Songwriter, Guitarist, composer, actress, and philanthropist. She has received numerous local and international awards and also has performed at the Royal Albert Hall and The Kennedy Center. Besides Urdu and Punjabi, she has also sung several songs in the Pashto language. In 2006, Kiani received the fourth-highest Pakistan civilian award, the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, for her contributions to the field of music. In 2010, she was appointed as a United Nations Development Programme Goodwill Ambassador, making her the first woman in Pakistan to be a Goodwill ambassador to the United Nations.

Kiani’s sweats to appreciatively impact and empower people around her do not stop then. The songster- cum- the actor has time and again decided for unconventional places on television since making her acting debut. Pinjra, in which Kiani plays the mama , entered positive reviews due to its focus on problematic parenthood ways and children. Her rearmost immolation, Dobara, also depicts the story of a widow, Mehrunisa, who gets a alternate chance at life after the death of her controlling hubby, Hidayatullah.

Sarwat Gilani

Being a  Pakistani model, film, television, and voice actress. Gilani made her movie debut in Jawani Phir Nahi Aani where she played a pregnant Pashtun woman opposite Vasay Chaudhary  She made a stage directorial debut with Kiski Topi Kiskay Sar. She also starred in Jawani Phir Nahi Ani 2, where she reprised her role as Gul opposite Vasay Chaudhry.

Lately, Gilani has also starred in Noor, a Pakistani short film that confronts the smirch girding weak sight and wearing traditional spectacles. The Umer Adil managerial has formerly won the Best Health Film award in the January online edition of the Cannes World Film Festival and also proves Gilani’s determination to address important issues of society onscreen.

Alina Khan

known for her lead roles in the short film Darling in 2019 and the feature film Joyland in 2022. She is the first transgender person to have a lead role in a major Pakistani film. Khan made her debut at the 75th Cannes Film Festival in the role of Biba in Joyland, the first Pakistani feature film screened at Cannes, and “the first major Pakistani motion picture to feature a trans actor in a lead role”, according to The Guardian.^[4] Khan, the director, and other cast members were present during the Cannes screening where they received a standing ovation that lasted almost ten minutes. Siddhant Adlakha writes in a review for IndieWire that in the film, Khan “has an immediately commanding presence — when she walks into a room, she makes it hers” and “as Biba grows closer to Haider, inadvertently threatening what little footing he has left as a man in society’s eyes, a deep vulnerability begins to emerge, which Khan wields with precision.

Saba Qamar

Qamar first received positive media attention for the role of Fatima Jinnah in the historical drama Jinnah Ke Naam (2007), and this breakthrough was followed by further success in several television series, including the pre-partition drama Dastaan, the melodrama Uraan (both 2010), the romantic dramas Maat and Pani Jaisa Piyar (both 2011), the socio Thakan (2012), thriller Sannata, the romantic Bunty I Love You (both 2013), family drama Digest Writer (2014), crime thriller Sangat (2015) and Besharam (2016), receiving Best Actress awards and nominations for each of them. She has also appeared in the acclaimed biographical film Manto (2015), the romantic comedy Lahore Se Aagey (2016), and the Hindi educational drama Hindi Medium (2017), for which she received a nomination of the Filmfare Award for Best Actress.

Qamar’s most recent immolation, Sar-e-Rah is also being lauded by observers for its stimulating take on gender places. The commanding character, Rania, breaks numerous gender conceptions by getting a hack motorist to earn a living. The television show also portrays caring, open-inclined men which is a rare sight to see with all the angry and vituperative men on TV.

Samina Peerzada

Samina started her career as model in 1974 and then she acted in several films including Nazdikiyan, Mukhra, Bazar-e-Husn, Shaadi Mere Shohar Ki and Bulandi. She has traveled widely and has also performed in Oslo at The International Ibsen Festival. Her notable stage performances include productions such as Raaz-o-Niaz and Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Television plays to her credit include Zindagi Gulzar Hai, Meri Zaat Zarra-e-Benishan, Rehaai, Durr-e-Shahwar, Dastaan and Karobi.

Yumna Zaidi

She has established her career as one of the leading television actresses in the Urdu television industry and is known for portraying diverse characters in social to romantic dramas. Zaidi is the recipient of three Lux Style Awards.

While it’s the norm to only see dolled- up women on TV, Yumna Zaidi shatters the norms and prospects of beauty with her part in Bakhtawar. Her character is a youthful, willful girl who changes her appearance to escape rigors in life and earn plutocrat. The starlet has wowed drama observers this time with her inconceivable amusement prowess and has gained numerous suckers for portraying colorful characters in social and romantic dramatizations. To name a many, Sinf-e-Aahan, Dil Na Umeed Tou Nahin and Parizaad remain one of her most memorable performances onscreen, which also include strong-conscious womanish characters.