Waseem Abbas

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Waseem Abbas Pride of Performance Award
وسیم عباس

Born	(1960-09-09) 9 September 1960 (age 65) Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan
Occupations	Actor Director Screenwriter
Years active	1978–present
Spouse	Saba Hameed
Children	Ali Abbas (son)
Parent	Inayat Hussain Bhatti (father)
Relatives	Kaifi (uncle) Hameed Akhtar (father-in-law) Aagha Ali (nephew)

Waseem Abbas (Urdu: وسِیم عبّاس; born 9 September 1960) is a Pakistani television, stage and film actor, screenwriter and director.^[1]

He is known for his roles in television dramas for the Pakistan Television (PTV), the country's public service broadcaster, and other networks, including Samundar, Raat, Ashiyana, Family Front (which he also directed), Landa Bazar and Din.

Early and personal life

Waseem Abbas was born in Lahore, Punjab on 9 September 1960.^[2]

He is the son of singer, actor and director Inayat Hussain Bhatti. His paternal uncle Kaifi (full name Kifayat Hussain Bhatti) was also an actor and director.

He has three sisters and an elder brother, Nadeem Abbas Bhatti, who worked as an actor before switching to film production and distribution.^[3]

He has four children from his first marriage. He divorced his wife and married actress Saba Hameed in 1993. His son from his marriage with Saba Hameed, Ali Abbas, is also an actor.^[4]

Through one of his sisters, his nephew is actor and singer Aagha Ali.^[5]

Career

His father, Inayat Hussain Bhatti, was against his decision to join the entertainment industry, and when he tried his luck on radio he was rejected. He then became an assistant director for a stage play, where he would also act, before getting his TV break on the PTV drama Ek Haqeeqat Ek Fasana in 1978.^[6]

Filmography

Films


Year	Title	Director	Language	Note
1981	Manzil	S. Suleman	Urdu	Lead role
1982	Aina Aur Zindagi	Zafar Shahab
1982	Zara Si Baat	Nazar Shahab
1983	Tina	Jan Mohammad Jamman
1983	Badaltay Rishtay	Shamas Chodhary
1984	Naseebon Wali	Shamas Chodhary
1985	Shah Behram	Kaifi	Punjabi	Supporting role
1985	Haq Mehar	Iftikhar Khan	Punjabi	Lead role
1986	First Blood	Nazad Ali Fartash	Urdu
1987	Jugnu	Faiz Malik	Punjabi
1988	Jatt Majhay Da	Masood Butt
1989	Taqatwar	Hasnain		Supporting role
1989	Ishq Rog	Kaifee		Lead role
1990	Sarmaya	M. Idrees Khan
1991	Action	Kaifee
1992	Mera Inteqam	Faiz Malik		Supporting role
2017	Punjab Nahi Jaungi	Nadeem Baig	Urdu/Punjabi	Supporting role

Television serials

Year	Title	Role	Channel
1983	Samundar	Yasir	PTV
1986	Hazaron Raaste	Zubair
1987	Raat	Gulrez
1990	Fishaar	Fareed
1992	Din	Faran
1995	Raiza Raiza	Qadir
1997	Ashiyana	Nouman
1997	Family Front	Azam
1998	Home Sweet Home	Kashif
2002	Landa Bazar	Mehar Charagh	STN
2005	Double Sawari	Chiraag	PTV
2006	Mr. & Misses	Saleem	PTV Home
2007	Lahori Gate		PTV Home
2008	Choki # 420		Aaj News
2010	Natak Mandi		PTV
2011	Anokhi		A-Plus TV
2011	Samundar Jheel Kaisay Ho		PTV
2012	Mera Saaein (season 2)	Malik Yawar Hayat	ARY Digital
2013	Zindagi Gulzar Hai	Mohammad Murtaza	Hum TV
	Parchaiyan	Qazim	ARY Digital
	Babar Javed	Farhan	Geo News
2014	Kala Jadoo (season 2)		ARY Digital Network
2014	Ladoon Mein Pali	Laraib's father	Geo News
2015	Mera Naam Yousuf Hai	Maulvi Noor Mohammed	A-Plus Entertainment
	Tumhari Natasha	Natasha's father	Hum TV
	Maan	Rashid	Hum TV
	Bay Qasoor	Waseem	ARY Digital
2016	Deewana	Tabraiz	Hum TV
2016	Aap Ke Liye	Imdad Hussain	ARY Digital
2017	Nazr-e-Bad	Shafiq Ur Rehman	Hum TV
	Yeh Shaadi Nahi Ho Sakti	Tasleem Butt	ARY Digital
	Dil Nawaz	Khalid	A-Plus TV
	Lal Ishq	Mehr	A-Plus TV
	Faisla		ARY Digital
2018	Do Biwiyan Ek Bechara		ARY Digital
2018	Qaid	Taufiq	Geo News
2019	Kaisa Hai Naseeban	Jamal	ARY Digital
	Meher Aur Meherban	Munawwar Hayaat	Urdu 1
	Hania	Ahsan	ARY Digital
	Mein Na Janoo	Waleed	Hum TV
	Naqab Zan	Dua's father
2020	Kashf	Imtiaz Ahmed
2020	Prem Gali	Hamza's father	ARY Digital
2021	Sila-e-Mohabbat	Tabrez's father	Hum TV
	Bebasi	Tameezuddin	Hum TV
	Mere Humsafar	Raees	ARY Digital
	Khuda Aur Muhabbat season 3	Taufeeq	Geo Entertainment
2022	Zakham	Arif
2023	Heer Da Hero	Arshad Butt
	Jinnzada
	Pyari Nimmo	Hanif
	Dooriyan		Hum TV
2024	Akhara	Chaudhry Hakim Ali	Green Entertainment
2025	Masoom	Nawab	Hum TV

Awards and recognition

Year	Title	Presented By	Ref.
2016	Pride of Performance	President of Pakistan	^[7]

References

↑ "Profile of Waseem Abbas". Urduwire.com website. Archived from the original on 2 April 2012. Retrieved 23 August 2022.
↑ Thenweer, Suniya (3 December 2019). "25 Best Pakistani Stage Artists of All Time". DesiBlitz. Archived from the original on 18 December 2024.
↑ "Death anniversary of Inayat Hussain Bhatti observed". Business Recorder. 1 June 2009. Retrieved 25 March 2023. Bhatti's progeny includes two sons and three daughters. His elder son Nadeem abbas Bhatti a film producer, played a lead role in the movie Ishq roug (1991) but then shifted his focus to film distribution. His youngest son Waseem Abbas Bhatti is a well-known film, TV and stage artist.
↑ Ajaz, Mahwash (20 May 2018). "Ali Abbas: A man of honour". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 24 March 2023. You're father is Waseem Abbas and mother, Saba Hameed.
↑ Rehman, Maliha (16 October 2022). "THE ICON INTERVIEW: THE BIG BAD AAGHA ALI". Dawn News. [...] his maternal uncle Waseem Abbas is a well-respected veteran, his cousin Ali Abbas is also an actor [...]
↑ "FROM HIS PAST TO HIS FUTURE A LOOK INTO WASEEM ABBAS' EXTENSIVE CAREER AND EXPERIENCES". HMagPak. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 25 March 2023.
↑ Award for excellence: Over 150 people to be conferred civil awards The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 14 August 2015, Retrieved 23 August 2022

External links

Waseem Abbas at IMDb

v t e Recipients of the Pride of Performance for Arts
1950s	Abdur Rehman Chughtai (1958) Zainul Abedin (1958) Hafeez Jalandhari (1958) Professor Abdus Salam (1958)
1960s	Roshan Ara Begum (1960) Fateh Ali Khan (Qawwali singer) (1960) Tassaduq Hussain (1960) Sadequain (1962) Mehdi Ali Mirza (1962) Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum (1962) Ahmed Mohiuddin (1962) Allah Bakhsh (1963) Shahid Ahmad Dehlvi (1963) Noor Jehan (1965) A.S.M. Qamarul Hasan (1965) Zubaida Agha (1965) Ferdausi Begum (1965) Sharif Khan Poonchwaley (1965) Imtiaz Ali Taj (1965) Salimuzzaman Siddiqui (1966) Shakir Ali (1966) Khwaja Moinuddin (1966) Ayat Ali Khan (1966) Ustad Haji Mohammad Sharif (1967) Munshi Raziuddin (1967) Rafi Peer (1967) Ali Imam (1968) Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi (1968) Amanat Ali Khan (1969) Bade Fateh Ali Khan (1969) Leila Arjumand Banu (1969) Umeed Ali Khan (1969) Mohammad Kibria (1969) Anna Molka Ahmed (1969)
1970s	Ismail Gulgee (1970) Farida Khanum (1970) Naheed Niazi (1970) Muslehuddin (1970) Ustad Gul Mohammad Khan (1971) S. M. Ikram (1971) Iqbal Bano (1974) Salamat Ali Khan (1977) Munir Sarhadi (1978) Ahmed Parvez (1978) Ustad Manzoor Ali Khan (1978) Sabri Brothers (1978) Ibn-e-Insha (1978) Molvi Ahmed Mallah (1978) Faiz Mohammad Baloch (1979) Khamiso Khan (1979) Kishwar Sultan (1979) Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (Sitar Nawaz) (1979) Ghulam Ali (1979) Alam Lohar (1979) Mureed Buledi (1979) Misri Khan Jamali (1979) Pathanay Khan (1979) Mohammad Azam Chishti (1979) Ashfaq Ahmed (1979) Nabi Bakhsh Baloch (1979)
1980s	Mohammad Qavi Khan (1980) Ustad Khyal Muhammad (1980) Allan Fakir (1980) Sohail Rana (1980) Khalid Iqbal (1980) Aazar Zubi (1980) Malika Pukhraj (1980) Muhammad Juman (1980) Qari Shakir Qasmi (1981) Nasir Jahan (1981) Mansoor Tabish (1981) Qari Syed Ali Sharfuddin Yemni (1981) Nanhe Ali Khan (music performer))(1981) Roohi Bano (1981) Alexander Robert (1981) Mai Bhagi (1981) Mirza Adeeb (1981) Uzma Gillani (1982) Qari Ubaidur Rehman (1982) Talat Hussain (1982) Tufail Niazi (1982) Reshma (1982) Arsh Muneer (1983) Ustad Nazar Hussain (1983) Atta Shad (1983) Begum Khurshid Mirza (1984) Abida Parveen (1984) Muhammad Ali (1984) Sayed Nafees al-Hussaini, Nafees Raqam (1985) Ustad Chhote Ghulam Ali Khan (1985) Bundu Khan (1985) Mehdi Hasan (1985) Shaukat Hussain (1985) Qari Ghulam Rasool (1985) Siddiq Ismail (1985) Abid Ali (1985) Syed Mehmood Ali (1985) Sabiha Khanum (1986) Shahzad Khalil (1986) Suraiya Multanikar (1986) Firdous Jamal (1986) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1986) Azhar Lodhi (1986) Riaz Batalvi (1986) Intizar Hussain (1986) Amjad Islam Amjad (1987) Ustad Abdul Majeed Dehlvi (1987) Haseena Moin (1987) Aadil Salahuddin (1987) Sain Akhtar Hussain (1987) Qari Izhar Ahmed Thanvi (1987) Shaista Zaid (1988) Ghulam Hassan Shaggan (1988) Mustafa Qureshi (1988) Muzaffar Warsi (1988) Qazi Wajid (1988) Ustad Kabir Khan (1989) Ghulam Ahmed Chishti (1989) Musarrat Nazir (1989) Shafi Mohammad Shah (1989) Kamal Ahmed Rizvi (1989) Jameel Bismil (1989) Bushra Ansari (1989) Ameer Khan (1989) Amjad Hussain (1989) Ustad Salamat Ali Khan (1989) Aziz Mian (1989) Talish (1989) Maharaj Ghulam Hussain Kathak (1989) Jamil Naqsh (1989) Enver Sajjad (1989)
1990s	Salim Nasir (1990) Daud Kamal (1990) Khalid Hameed Baig (1990) Shaukat Ali (1990) Ustad Sadiq Ali Khan Mando (1990) Ustad Hamid Ali Khan (1990) Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (Gwalior gharana) (1990) Ahmed Saeed Nagi (1990) Qari Mohammad Fida (1990) Parveen Shakir (1990) Iftikhar Arif (1990) Ibrahim Jalees (1990) Jamiluddin Aali (1991) Khursheed Alam known as Gohar Qalam (1991) Khayyam Sarhadi (1991) Attaullah Khan Esakhelvi (1991) Ata ul Haq Qasmi (1991) Nayyar Ali Dada (1992) Shakeel (Yousuf Kamal) (1992) Noor Mohammad Lashari (1992) Tariq Aziz (1992) Mustansar Hussain Tarar (1992) Pervez Malik (1992) Jawed Iqbal (1992) Mian Ijazul Hasan (1992) Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman (1992) Munir Niazi (1992) Naseem Hijazi (1992) Mian Sheheryar (1992) Mushtaq Gazdar (1992) Waheed Qureshi (1993) Ismail Shahid (1993) Saeed Akhtar (1993) Ali Ejaz (1993) S. H. Hashmi (1993) Syed Manzoorul Kaunain (1993) Qari Syed Buzurg Shah Al-Azhari (1993) Agha Nasir (1993) Farooq Qaiser (1993) Bashir Mirza (1994) Ahmad Bashir (1994) Shahid Jalal (1994) Qari Mohammad Younus (1994) Qari Syed Ali Abid Naqvi (1994) Mehr Abdul Haq (1994) Nisar Bazmi (1994) Hamid Ali Bela (1994) Zareena Baloch (1994) Anwar Maqsood (1994) Shujaat Hashmi (1994) Qateel Shifai (1994) Zamir Niazi (1994)) Tufail Hoshiarpuri (1994) Nahid Siddiqui (1994)) Laeeq Ahmed (1994) Abdus Salam (newscaster) (1994) Allah Rakha (sarangi) (1995) Ustad Talib Hussain Khan (1995) Colin David (1995) Shoaib Hashmi (1995) Rauf Khalid (1995) Laila Shahzada (1995) Hajra Masroor (1995) Khursheed Ahmad (1996) Mashooq Sultan (1996) Safeerullah Lehri (1996) Afzal Ahsan Randhawa (1996) Qari Noor Mohammad (1996) Rubina Khalid (1996) Fatima Surayya Bajia (1996) Sehba Akhtar (1996) Mohammad Ali Shah (surgeon) (1996) Ahmad Rahi (1997) Ahmed Ghulam Ali Chagla (1997) Nadeem Baig (1997) Abdul Hameed (1997) Masroor Anwar (1997) Ahmad Ali Khan (1997) Akhtar Chanal Zahri (1998) Mumtaz Mirza (1998) Suhrab Faqir (1999) Dilawar Figar (1999) Salima Hashmi (1999) Anwar Masood (1999) Anita Ghulam Ali (1999) Zafar Iqbal (poet) (1999) Khalid Abbas Dar (1999) Khatir Ghaznavi (1999) Mujahid Kamran (1999) Raza Mir (1999)
2000s	Amjad Parvez (2000) Sharif Kunjahi (2000) Shamsher-ul-Hyderi (2000) Jaun Elia (2000) Kajjan Begum (2001) Kamaluddin Ahmed (2001) Athar Shah Khan Jaidi (2001) Jameel Fakhri (2002) Nazia Hassan (2002) Deena M. Mistri (2002) Askari Mian Irani (2002) Himayat Ali Shair (2002) Shoaib Mansoor (2002) Jilani Kamran (2002) Ajmal Khan (botanist) (2002) Kanwal Naseer (2002) Iftikhar Ahmad (2003) Ada Jafri (2003) Syed Afzal Hussain (2003) Syed Munawwar Saeed (2003) Abdul Aziz Baloch (2003) Ghulam Mustafa (2003) Majeed Khan (sarangi player) (2003) Muneeza Hashmi (2003) Muhammad Ali Siddiqui (2003) Imdad Hussaini (2003) Muhammad Usman Diplai (2004) Yousuf Khan (actor) (2004) Mahtab Akbar Rashdi (2004) Chishty Bin Subh-o-Mujahid (2004) Navid Shahzad (2004) Salahuddin Toofani (2004) S. M. Naqi (2004) Haji Atta Muhammad (2004) Moin Niazi (2004) Shahida Parveen (2004) Tina Sani (2004) Niaz Ahmed (2004) Samiur Rahman (2004) Tariq Rahman (2004) Rais Khan (2005) Arif Lohar (2005) Rangeela (2005) Muhammad Mansha Yaad (2005) Shabnam Shakeel (2005) Abdul Rauf Rufi (2005) Khawaja Najmul Hassan (2005) Amir Adnan (2006) Asghar Nadeem Syed (2006) Arshad Mehmood (2006) Arfa Karim (2006) Fareed Ayaz (2006) Nayyar Kamal (2006) Tassawar Khanum (2006) Ustad Badar uz Zaman (2006) Ustad Qamar uz Zaman (2006) Shafqat Tanvir Mirza (2006) Zehra Nigah (2006) Khalida Hussain (2006) Ghazi Sial (2006) Nayyara Noor (2006) Masood Akhtar (2006) Aftab Iqbal Shamim (2006) Naheed Akhtar (2007) Shaan (2007) Ustad Mubarak Ali Khan (Kirana gharana) (2007) Asad Amanat Ali Khan (2007) Hamid Ali Khan (2007) Faakhir Mehmood (2007) Munnu Bhai (2007) Munni Begum (2008) Akhtar Munir (2008) Gopal Das (2008) Haji Mehr Ali (2008) Haji Sher Ali (2008) Nahid Raza (2008) Gul Bahar Bano (2008) Mujahid Hussain (2008) Rasheed Malik (2008) Sultana Siddiqui (2008) Abdul Karim Balouch (2008) Abdul Qadir Junejo (2008) M. Hanif Raza (2008) Nasreen Askari (2008) Shafqat Amanat Ali (2008) Mansoor Rahi (2008) Tari Khan (2008) Noorul Huda Shah (2008) Rasheed Naz (2009) Ustad Shafqat Ali Khan (2009) Muhammad Younus Khan (2009) Emanuel Philip (2009) Rehana Siddiqui (2009) Shabbir Hussain (2009) Manzoor Hussain (2009) Parveen Nazar (2009) Javaid Tufail Niazi (2009) Babar Ali Niazi (2009) Hajra Mansoor (2009) Behroze Sabzwari (2009) Obaidullah Baig (2009) Khalifa Muhammad Irshad Beg (2009) Naseem Sultan (2009) Ghous Bux Brohi (2009) Sahib Dino Mallah (2009) Satish Chandra Anand (2009) Rubeena Malik (2009) Badar Munir (2009) Muhammad Gul (2009) Mehnaz Hyat (2009) Abdul Qadir (2009) Ghayyur Akhtar (2009) Aslam Farrukhi (2009) Ali Moeen Nawazish (2009)
2010s	Afzal Tauseef (2010) Musarrat Misbah (2010) Rabia Zuberi (2010) Zulfiqar Ali (2010) Mahmood Shaam (2010) Hameed Akhtar (2010) Fahmida Riaz (2010) Shahid Nadeem (2010) Muhammad Ibrahim Joyo (2010) Masood Mufti (2010) Masood Ashar (2010) Habib-ur-Rehman (2011) Khalida Inayat Noor (2011) Khan Tehsil (2011) Abdul Rahim Nagori (2011) S. Amjad Bukhari (2011) S. B. John (2011) S.H. Qasim Jalali (2011) Samina Ahmad (2011) Sohail Ahmed (2011) Ustad Hussain Bukhsh Gullu (2011) Khalid Ahmad (2011) Ustad Muhammad Alam (2011) Ustad Sharafat Ali Khan (2011) Wazir Afzal (2011) Zafar Kazmi (2011) Moin Akhter (2011) Sahira Kazmi (2012) Mohsin Gillani (2012) Nauman Ijaz (2012) Saba Hameed (2012) Jawed Sheikh (2012) Meera (2012) Rahat Naveed Masud (2012) Lutfullah Khan (2012) Kazim Pasha (2012) Tahira Syed (2013) Muhammad Ajmal Khan (2013) Alamgir (2013) Shahida Mini (2013) Naghma (2013) Pervaiz Iqbal Cheema (2013) Cecil Chaudhry (2013) Naseeruddin Saami (2013) Shahid Abdullah (2014) Ustad Shafiquz Zaman Khan (2014) Aurangzeb Leghari (2014) Nazir Leghari (2014) Ayub Khawar (2014) Mir Mohammad Ali (TV comedian) (2015) Ayesha Haroon (2015) Saleem Kausar (2015) Saba Qamar (2016) Waseem Abbas (2016) Wajahat Masood (journalist) (2016) Gulab Chandio (2016) Nathoo Khan (2016) Khalid Butt (2016) Sarmad Khoosat (2017) Humaira Channa (2017) Ghazi Salahuddin (2017) Rashid Mehmood (2017) Shakir Shuja Abadi (2017) Zulfiqar Bhutta (2017) Aslam Pervaiz (2018) Ghulam Haider (musician) (2018) Amin Hafeez (2018) A. Nayyar (singer) (2018) Bilqees Khanum (2018) Rauf Parekh (journalist) (2018) Amanullah (comedian) (2018) Nighat Chaudhry (classical dancer) (2018) Nighat Butt (2018) Zareen Panna (2018) Ishrat Fatima (newsreader) (2019) Reema Khan (2019) Arshad Sharif (journalist) (2019) Nasir Adeeb (2019) Shabbir Jan (2019) Iftikhar Thakur (2019)
2020s	Deeba (2020) Ghulam Mohiuddin (2020) Sahir Ali Bagga (2020) Waris Baig (2020) Ghulam Abbas 2020 Saieen Zahoor (2020) Fareed Ayaz (for qawwali group member Abu Muhammad) (2020) Sarmad Sehbai (2021) Resham (2021) Sakina Samo (2021) Khalid Masud Gondal (2021) Humayun Saeed (2021) Ayaz Gul (2022) Hafeez Tahir (2023) Sangeeta (2023) Sher Miandad Khan (2023) Ustad Tafu (2023) Anjuman (2023) Naghma (2023) Agha Hasan Askari (2024)