# Salman Shahid

Salman Shahid (Urdu: سلمان شاہد) is a Pakistani film, theatre, television and voice actor.
The son of producer Saleem Shahid and the late veteran actress Khursheed Shahid, he has worked in Lollywood, Bollywood as well as in theatre and television.
He has appeared in the Pakistani television (PTV) TV programme Such Gup (1975), the TV shows Taal Matol (1975), Teen Bata Teen (1995) and Hoo Bahoo (2006).

## Career
### Media education and early work

In 1976, Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) gave Salman a scholarship to study film-making in Moscow for four years. He eventually completed his film studies at the prestigious Moscow Film School.
On his return to Pakistan, he work to help establish various drama groups and a drama school.
His series Ababeel (PTV Lahore) and Seerhian (PTV Karachi) were noted, while he also did several noteworthy individual plays as well as direct episodes for the successful TV comedy series Family Front, which aired on PTV in 1997.

### Direction and screenwriting

Salman has been directing plays since his college days, such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman in 1973 and later Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters In Search of an Author in 2007, and, when it comes to television, he wrote, directed and acted in the serial Bano Ko Pehchano (Geo TV) for which he received nominations in all departments of his work at the 2006 Lux Style Awards.
His production Tassadum was selected at the Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre.

### Career in India

Salman has acted in films in India, playing a main protagonist in Kabul Express (2006) and the main antagonist in Ishqiya (2010), both films having run the international festival circuit.

## Filmography
### Films

| Year | Title | Role | Country |
| 2004 | Khamosh Pani | Amin | Pakistan |
| 2006 | Kabul Express | Imran Khan Afridi / Subedar M.J. Mohammad | India |
| 2010 | Ishqiya | Mushtaq Bhai | India |
| 2014 | Dedh Ishqiya | Mushtaq Bhai | India |
| 2014 | Tamanna | Mian Tariq Ali | Pakistan |
| 2014 | Na Maloom Afraad | Gogi | Pakistan |
| 2016 | Teri Meri Love Story | Rana Saheb | Pakistan |
| 2017 | Azad | | Pakistan |
| 2018 | Altered Skin | Imtiaz | Pakistan |
| 2019 | Ready Steady No | Chaudhry Saheb | Pakistan |

### Television serials

| Year | Title | Role | Channel |
| 1975 | Such Gup | | PTV |
| 1975 | Taal Matol | | PTV |
| 1982 | Dhoop Dewar | Asad | PTV |
| 1985 | Apnay Log | Iqtedar Ali | PTV |
| 1986 | Ababeel | | PTV |
| 1988 | Seerhian | Kamal | PTV |
| 1997 | Family Front | | PTV |
| 2005 | Jaye Kahan Yeh Dil | | Geo TV |
| 2005 | Bano Ko Pehchano | | Geo TV |
| 2009 | Na Jane Kyun | | PTV Home |
| 2010 | Noor Bano | | Hum TV |
| 2011 | Khuda Aur Muhabbat | Maulvi Aleem | Geo TV |
| 2012 | Mi-Raqsam | | Geo TV |
| 2013 | Aseerzadi | Peer Jalal | Hum TV |
| 2016 | Faltu Larki | Anwar-ul-Haq | A-Plus TV |
| 2017 | Shadi Mubarak Ho | | Ary Digital |
| 2017 | Mujhay Jeenay Do | Khuda Baksh | Urdu 1 |
| 2017 | Bhai | Munner; Ashraf's father | A-Plus TV |
| 2019 | Bewaja | | PTV Home |
| 2019 | Tu Zindagi Hai | | PTV Home |
| 2021 | Raqeeb Se | Masood | Hum TV |
| 2023 | Tumhare Husn Ke Naam | Qureshi Sahab | Green Entertainment |
| 2023 | Nauroz | | Green Entertainment |

### Web series

| Year | Title | Role | Director | Country | Notes |
| 2024 | Barzakh | Jafar Khanzada | Asim Abbasi | Pakistan | Web series on ZEE5 |

## Awards and nominations

| Year | Award | Nominated Work | Category | Result |
| 2006 | 5th Lux Style Awards | Bano Ko Pehchano | Best TV Actor (Satellite) | Nominated |
| 2006 | 5th Lux Style Awards | Bano Ko Pehchano | Best TV Director (Satellite) | Nominated |
| 2015 | 14th Lux Style Awards | Na Maloom Afraad | Best Film Actor | Nominated |
| 2019 | 18th Lux Style Awards | Ready Steady No | Best Film Actor | Nominated |