Rahat Kazmi

Rahat Kazmi راحت ڪاظمي
Born	June 30, 1946 Simla, East Punjab , British India
Occupation	Teaching, Acting
Known for	Acting, Arts and Literature
Spouse(s)	Sahira Kazmi

Rahat Kazmi (born 1946) is a Pakistani television actor, a talk-show anchor, a professional speaker and an academician. He is married to Pakistani actress, producer and director Sahira Kazmi, with whom he fell in love when he started his acting career. He has two children, both associated with the show business industry of Pakistan.

Education

Degree	University
MA Political Science	Government College, Lahore
MA English Literature	University of Punjab
Legum Baccalaureus (LLB)	University of The Punjab

Early career

Rahat joined the Pakistani Civil Services in 1968 as an Information Officer. In 1976 he resigned from his job and pursued acting.

Acting career

Television shows

Show Name	Year
Mayaar	1967
Rahat Kazmi show	1970
Comedy Comedy	1990

Drama and plays

Drama / Play	Year	Writer / Producer / Director
Goonge	1967	N/A
Koltar	N/A	N/A
Anarkali	N/A	Fatima Suriyya Bajiya
Auraaq	N/A	Fatima Suriyya Bajiya
Qurbatain aur faaslay	1974	Rahat Kazmi
Ghazanfar	N/A	N/A
Teesra kinara	N/A	Rahat Kazmi (Writer), Shahzad Khalil (Director)
Dhoop Kinare	1987	Haseena Moin
Karavan	N/A	Iqbal Ansari
Nangey paaon	N/A	Shahid Kazmi (Writer), Haider Imam Rizvi (Director)
Ragoan mein andhera	N/A	Yunus Javed (Writer), Mohammad Nisar Hussain (Director)
Parchaiyan	N/A	Haseena Moin
Ehsaas	N/A	Shahid Kazmi (Writer), Shahzad Khalil (Director)
Saraab	N/A	Bano Qudsia
Zikr Hai Kai Saal Ka	1996	Sahira Kazmi
Kaise Kahoon	2006	Sahira Kazmi

Films

Film Name	Year
Aaj aur kal	1976
Insaniyat	N/A
Suraj bhee tamashai	1977
Mehmaan with cast Rahat Kazmi,Babra Sharif, Nayyer Sultana, Najma, Meena Shori etc	1977
Muthi bhar chawal	1978
Khandaan	1980
Saima	1980
Aazmaish	1980
Aas paas	1982
Jaan-e-mun	1982

Family

Rahat married Sahira Kazmi, an accomplished actress and daughter of the Muslim Taji Qureshi and her Hindu paramour, actor Shyam , in 1974. They have a son and a daughter, both of them are actors.

Other activities

Currently Rahat is working as an administrative director for L'ecole for Advanced Studies(LAS), an academic institute in Karachi. He also teaches English Literature and Drama to A level students at LAS, Karachi. Rahat Kazmi is also an IDJIT director at the National Academy of Performing Arts. He has previously taught at Avicenna School and Hamdard University (Clifton Campus, Karachi) in 2001.

See also

• List of Lollywood actors

References

• Rahat Kazmi at the Internet Movie Database
• A tribute to Rahat Kazmi
• Leading personalities Archived 9 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
• An interview with Rahat Kazmi