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Shyam (actor) (Shyam Sundar Chadha) was born on 20 February, 1920 in Sialkot, Punjab, British India, is an Actor from India. Discover Shyam (actor)'s Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 31 years old?

Popular As Shyam Sundar Chadha
Occupation Actor
Age 31 years old
Zodiac Sign Pisces
Born 20 February 1920
Birthday 20 February
Birthplace Sialkot, Punjab, British India
Date of death 25 April, 1951
Died Place N/A
Nationality India

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His wife is Mumtaz Qureshi ('Taji') (m. 1949-1951)

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Children Sahira Kazmi (daughter) Shakir (son)

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1920

Shyam Sundar Chadha (20 February 1920 – 25 April 1951) better known mononymously as Shyam, was an Indian actor in Hindi cinema.

Shyam was born as Shyam Sundar Chadha on 20 February 1920 in Sialkot, Punjab but grew up in Rawalpindi.

Shyam graduated from Gordon College in Rawalpindi.

He was a close friend of Saadat Hasan Manto and was the inspiration to many of his stories.

1942

He began his career in 1942 and worked in over 30 films until his death in 1951 at the age of 31.

Shyam's film career began in 1942 with the Punjabi film Gowandhi.

1943

Some of his other notable films include Room No. 9 (1943), Aaj Aur Kal (1944), W. Z. Ahmed's Man Ki Jeet (1944), Majboor (1948), Chandni Raat (1948), Char Din (1949), Dillagi (1949), Patanga (1949), Naach (1949), Kaneez (1949), Bazar (1949), Meena Bazaar (1950) and Samadhi (1950).

1944

In 1944, he moved to Bombay and started acting in Hindi films.

He acted opposite several of the top actresses of the time such as Nargis, Suraiya, Nigar Sultana and Nalini Jaywant.

1947

Even after the independence of Pakistan in 1947, their friendship remained strong.

1949

One of his most famous movies was Bazaar, released in 1949, in which he starred with Nigar Sultana.

Dillagi (1949), opposite Suraiya was the most successful film in his career.

In 2021, National Film Archive of India, Pune added the film its collection.

Deepa Gahlot praised the film and added it in her book 50 Films that Deserve a New Audience.

1950

Some people still speculate to this day that had he lived longer, due to his good looks, he would have given stiff competition to the 1950s popular film heroes, Dilip Kumar, Dev Anand and Raj Kapoor.

Veteran film actress Suraiya reportedly said about Shyam:

"I often thought of him as the Errol Flynn of India... ...Shyam was very conscious of his height whenever he was on the sets with me, just as I was very conscious of my short stature whenever I worked with him. He was in the habit of teasing my granny often and had become almost a member of our family. "

Manto and Shyam became close friends in real life because they both worked together for Bombay Talkies.

In his book titled, 'Stars from Another Sky'; Manto dedicated a chapter to Shyam titled 'Murli Ki Dhun'.

In this book, Manto describes Shyam's attempts to flirt with fellow actresses Kuldip Kaur, Nigar Sultana as well as actress Mumtaz Qureshi.

Later, Shyam married Qureshi.

Manto found Shyam to be fun-loving, liberal in his thinking and a man with a wandering eye for good looking women.

1951

Shyam's last film was Shabistan, opposite Naseem Banu, that was released in 1951 after his death.

Shyam married Mumtaz Qureshi (also called “Taji”) and they had two children together.

The elder was a daughter, Sahira, and the younger was a son, Shakir, who was born two months after Shyam's death.

It was a troubled marriage and according to some reports, Mumtaz had reportedly moved out to live with her sister Zeb Qureshi (a small-time actress in Bombay) before Shyam's death in an accident.

However, it is also said that she had gone, as per Indian custom, to her maternal family in order to give birth to her child.

After Shyam's sudden death in 1951 in a horse-riding accident, Mumtaz migrated to Pakistan with her elder sister, Zeb Qureshi, who was her closest surviving relative, and they settled in Lahore.

Mumtaz later married a Pakistani man named Ansari, due to which Shyam's children were sometimes known by the surname Ansari.

Both of Shyam's children thus grew up in Pakistan and were raised as Muslims.

Shyam's daughter Sahira followed in her late father's footsteps and became an actress, working in Pakistani TV serials.

Shyam died while filming on the set of Shabistan in 1951 after he fell off a horse during filming and fractured his skull.

He was immediately rushed to the hospital but did not survive.

His few remaining scenes were completed with a body-double who had a similar height to him and filmed from behind without showing his face.

This film's shooting was being done in Bombay.

1974

She is married since 1974 to the Pakistani TV actor Rahat Kazmi and they are the parents of two children, Ali (son) and Nida (daughter).

Shyam's son Shakir pursued higher education and is a psychiatrist based in the United Kingdom.

2018

Tahir Raj Bhasin portrayed Shyam in the Hindi film by Nandita Das, Manto (2018), a biopic on the noted writer.