Acting
Jan 12, 1969
London, England
Rehan Sheikh
Acting
Biography
Rehan Sheikh (born January 13, 1969) is a British-Pakistani filmmaker, actor, director, writer, playwright, producer, and former television host. He is best known for The Castle: Aik Umeed (2001), Inkaar (2019), for which he was nominated for Best Actor at Lux Style Awards, and Sanjha (2011-2012), which earned him a Hum Awards nomination. Sheikh started his career on stage in South London, notably working in Tamasha Theatre Company's Women of the Dust in 1992. While visiting Pakistan during holidays the next year, he wrote, directed, and acted in a play in Rawalpindi, where he was spotted by renowned playwright and theatre director Sarmad Sehbai. Sehbai got him his first television role in Aaghosh (1993). Sheikh remained in Pakistan and went on do a number of popular drama serials and also hosted the short-lived travel show Travel Guide of Pakistan.
Feature Films (9)
A contemporary boy returns to his traditional hometown for his sister's wedding, soon discovering his own proposal finalized with a girl he's never seen. Challenging family customs, his sole mission is to at least see the face of his future bride-to-be.
Poppay Ki Wedding
An aspiring actor succumbs to pressure from his father and takes up the role of lawyer.
Actor in Law
A story of a mother, in village of Thar desert in border area, who sacrificed her motherhood for the justice to her country and for a soldier whom she also said to be her son. She did not even thought for a single minute for her only son who could get into difficulty.
Mother of Desert
The controversial and troubled Indo-Pakistani writer Saadat Hasan Manto finds his artistic choices challenged by censors.
Manto
An off beat comedy drama set in modern day Pakistan about a free spirited RJ who hosts a morning show until a chance encounter leads him to confront his own ideas of freedom.
Azad
Inept kidnappers need both luck and logic to stay one step ahead of the determined cop who is hot on their trail, but are laughably lacking both.
Chupan Chupai
A rich business man with the aid of a corrupt police unit attempt to hunt down in order to kill and an ex-business associate and family member after he escapes a failed execution.
Driven
Ayesha is a widow with a secret past, living with her beloved son Saleem in a small town in Pakistan close to the Indian border. When the fires of Islamic nationalism invade their tranquil lives, Saleem and a few of the town's other young men are soon gripped by a religious fervour, and they attempt to bring radical Islamic law to their friends and neighbours. After a group of Sikh pilgrims arrive in town, tensions reach boiling point as Ayesha's haunted past comes rushing back.
Silent Waters
A British Asian Mancunian is drawn in to the criminal underworld by his notorious uncle. Everything is at stake as his competition with his cousin reaches a deadly level.
Apnas
Television & Series (12)
The story is about Meesha who lives with her two step sisters and step mother. She is mistreated by her step mother and does all the house hold work. Meesha meets the rich and dashing Mayer. Meesha, thinking that he is her prince charming, who has come to rescue her and put an end to all her troubles, tries to win his heart.
Aik Nayee Cinderella
A romantic comedy about two sisters and their journey from a western to Oriental life.
Akbari Asghari
Story deals with the social issues of glamor industry, upper-class family, and its struggles.
Besharam
Series narrates the story of a young and fun-loving girl Jugnoo, who had lost her father at an early age. She along with her mother Shah Jahan, lives with her maternal aunt Jahangir. Despite facing a lot of troubles and hardships in her life, Jugnoo always proves to be confident and jolly girl.
Jugnoo
Each episode features a Pakistani celebrity interviewed by Peerzada about their journeys, struggles, challenges and success.
