Shyam (actor)

Shyam (born 20 Feb 1920 in Sialkot) was a Hindi film actor of the 1940s.^[1] He originally hailed from Sialkot and his full name was Sunder Shyam Chadha, but he grew up in Rawalpindi.

Shyam graduated from Gordon College in Rawalpindi. He was a close personal friend of Sadat Hasan Manto and was the inspiration of many of his stories.^[2] Even after partition their bond of friendship endured. One of his famous movies was Bazar, released in 1949 where he starred with Nigar Sultana. He married a Muslim, Mumtaz Qureshiin, with whom he had a daughter Saira Kazmi. She is a Pakistani television artist who is married to fellow artist Rahat Kazmi. Shyam died on the set of the film Shabistan.^[1]

References

^ ^a ^b Mishra, Vijay (2002). Bollywood Cinema. Routledge. pp. xiii. ISBN 9780415930147. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=N5Z9_ysSgW8C&pg=PR13&dq=shyam++%2Bsuperstar&num=100.
^ Mufti, Aamir (2007). Enlightenment in the Colony. Princeton University Press. pp. 206. ISBN 9780691057323.

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Name	Shyam
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Date of birth	20 February 1920
Place of birth	Sialkot
Date of death	1951
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