Nadeem Baig

He started his film career as a playback singer. His debut film as playback singer is Kaise Kahoon (1965), directed by acclaimed director Sadiq Khan, singing alongside legendary singer Ferdausi Rahman.

Nadeem Baig is a Pakistani actor, who has acted in Plaza SquareJln films, television films,TV serials and TV drama. He also anchored a quiz show on Ary Digital TV channel and has played leading roles in more than 200 films in Pakistan. Nadeem, along with artists _Talat Hussain (I)_, M. Zaheer Khan, Aftab Azeem, Saleem Jafry, and TV producer Iqbal Haider, were all discovered at the Islamia Club,Karachi, Pakistan. He and his friends, Ameer Ahmed Khan and Qasim Siddiqui, won Ambon Plaza SquareJln music award. At one of his musical kit presentations, he was noticed by the then famous singer _Firdousi Begum_. She was impressed by his singing talent and encouraged him to try playback singing in Dhaka 's film industry. Because of his singing talent, he sang a song for an Urdu film called Sehra , the music was composed by _Nisar Bazmi_. Unfortunately, the film was never released. Nadeem traveled to Dhaka for a cultural trip, organized by the Islamia Club,Karachi, where he got a chance to sing a song in Captain Ehtisham's new film Chakori (1967). Captain was making a low budget black and white film, because his previous color film, Sagar ,had flopped at the box-office. At the time of casting, he chose Shabana as the heroine and an East Pakistani ( Bengali ) film actor Azeem as the hero. But Azeem refused to work in the film because he was offered a very small amount of money to act in the film. So _Ehtesham (I)_ decided to cast Nadeem in his film as the hero, which was contrary to his brother Mustafeez's will.

The film was released on May 19, 1967, in both East and West Pakistan and became a hit partly due to its superb music by _Robin Ghosh_. Nadeem's film career spans more than 40 years.

He started his career in 1967 and appeared in his first film Chakori (1967) in a lead role opposite actress Shabana.

He won the prestigious Nigar Award in the best actor's category for film Chakori (1967). With consecutive hit films, like Chotay Sahab and Sangdil , he became one of the leading film actors of Pakistan.

The film was produced and directed by Captain Ehtesham, who, in real life, became his father-in-law in 1968. The film did well in both circuits of Pakistani film industry, i. e; West Pakistan and East Pakistan.

He married Farzana Baig on 28th September, 1969, the only daughter of acclaimed film director Ehtesham, who was also the director of his debut film Chakori (1967). He has two sons with her, Faisal and Farhan.

Nadeem's commercially successful films include Nadan (1973), Anari , Pehchan (1976) , Talash (1976), Aina (1977), Hum Dono (1980), Lajawab, Qurbani (1981), Sangdil (1982), and Dehleez (1983).

Nadeem has worked in not one but three films with the same name. While the first 'Anari' and 'Sangdil' were black and white flicks, and the others were in colour, the first 'Talash' was released in 1976 and the other one a decade later. Not only were the stories of all these flicks different but also the directors.

In 1980, an Indian film, Noor Jahan, was granted special permission for an exhibition in Pakistan which turned into a challenge for Pakistani Film industry.

Well-known Pakistani film director _Pervez Malik_accepted that challenge and produced film Hum Dono (1980) , presenting Nadeem in a double role. The film did well in Pakistani cinemas. Besides acting, Nadeem has sung many songs for films, in fact he started his career by singing a song for a West Pakistani film, but the song got canceled by the director and later was sung by Mehdi Hassan.