Yasmeen Khan a pashto veteran film actress

 

Yasmeen Khan is a popular name in the Pashto film industry.

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She played the role of Sherbano in the famous second generation Pashto film Yusuf Khan and Sherbano and gained a lot of fame from this film. Yusuf Khan and Sherbano is a popular romance story in Pashto language and literature, which was picturized in 1965. Yasmeen Khan came to the film industry before the making of Yusuf Khan and Sherban He also played minor extras characters in Urdu and Punjabi films.

But when Yousuf Khan and Sherbano film project start, Yasmeen Khan was chosen as heroine in the film and after the release of the film, it became very popular in the Pashto film industry and thus began her successful film journey.

Buder munir played the main role in Yousuf Khan and Sherbano opposite Yasmeen Khan in the film, which was one of the reasons why both the actors became so popular.

Who was Yasmin Khan? Where did she live? And where is Yasmeen Khan's grave? This and much more information you will read in this post.

Yasmeen Khan's real name was Shamshada and she was famous as yasmeen khan in the world of film industry. Like other Pashtun actresses, Yasmin Khan's life was full of difficulties.

Yasmeen Khan belonged to jamrud area of ​​Khyber district and was born in the year 1950.

Some people say that Yasmeen Khan belonged to Afghanistan and Yasmeen Khan's father emigrated from Afghanistan and settled in Khyber Jamrud area.

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 Yasmin Khan was still young when her mother died and her father remarried. When Yasmeen Khan's father remarried, Yasmeen Khan's grandmother took her to Karachi and raised him there.

It is said that Yasmeen Khan first brought her uncle into the world of showbiz and for the first time she played a small extra role in an Urdu film.

In the year 1968, when the first Pashto film "Yousuf Khan and Sherbano" was started, Yasmeen Khan was given the role of heroin in this film and also the famous Pashto actor Badar Munir was the hero in this film.

Yousuf Khan Sherbano's film director Aziz Tabassum was the one who made countless Pashto super hit films. Yasmeen Khan was only 15 years old and a teenage girl at that time.

 And when the Urdu movie "Dilhan Ek Raat Ki" was released in 1975, Yasmin Khan played the role of a heroine in that movie too. And she also gained a lot of fame.

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Yasmeen Khan's Urdu movie was also a super hit movie like Yusuf Khan and Sherbano movie. Yasmeen Khan's second film was "Mah Jabeen" which was made with the personal help of Qawi Khan but unfortunately the film did not hit and failed.

Orbel, Adam Khan and Durkhani, Didan, Khan Badosh, Arman and a number of other successful films were made in this movie in which Yasmeen Khan played the role of heroin and all these films became super hit films of Pashto film industry. Is

After these super hit movies, Yasmeen Khan got married to an actor named Saqi and gave birth to a daughter. Shortly after, differences arose between Yasmin Khan and Saqi and Yasmin Khan divorced Saqi and remarried shortly after. Yasmeen Khan got married for the second time to Hurram Bari, owner of Bari Studios in Lahore and they had a daughter named Qura tul Ain.

Yasmin Khan's second marriage also failed and she got married for the third time to a man named Arifullah.

Arifullah loved Pashto movies very much and he tried to make a Pashto movie. During the making of the movie, Arifullah and Yasmeen Khan fell in love and they got married.

After her marriage to Arifullah, Yasmeen Khan withdrew from the film industry due to Arifullah's tough nature and she banned Yasmeen Khan from working in films.

According to Yasmeen Khan's neighbors, she was a very generous and compassionate woman. After marrying Arifullah, she left the Pashto film industry and spent the rest of her life at home.

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It is said that Arifullah was not a good man and he used to be very cruel and unjust to Yasmeen Khan.

Yasmeen Khan's first film, Yousuf Khan Sherbano, which was released in around bout 1960 s, did a lot of business not only in Peshawar but also in Karachi. Yasmeen Khan has acted in 150 films in her entire film career in which Badr Munir has acted as a hero in most of the films.

Apart from Badr Munir, she has acted as a heroine with Asif Khan, Jamil Babar, Aimal Khan, Bidar Bakht and many other famous heroes.

Yasmeen Khan has also acted in Urdu and Punjabi films but her role was that of a traditional Pashtun girl so she did not have much success in Urdu and Punjabi films and turned to Pashto films and gained fame.

Asif Khan, a popular actor in Pashto films, says that Yasmeen Khan was a brave girl and often wore cold clothes and a red hat on her head, which was one of the reasons why most people in the film industry would call her. "Khan Sahib," he said.

It is said that when a Yasmin Khan fan came and got an autograph from Yasmin Khan, he would write a sentence like "Life is a struggle".

Yasmeen Khan came to Peshawar from Lahore when she married Arifullah and spent the rest of her life behind the

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scenes. According to her neighbors, she was very generous and would help the poor in any way she could.

The famous Pashto film actress was assassinated on April 15, 1997. Her husband was accused of murder, but when it became a mystery, the government dug up her grave and buried her. An autopsy was performed on her body and after the post-mortem, her husband Arifullah was arrested in her murder case.

Her tomb is located in the Kakshal Cemetery in Peshawar area, which was constructed by the Department of Culture KPK, may her soul rest in peace.

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