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Shamim Ara (1938-2016) ... August 5th, 2016... Pakistan's foremost movie actress, Shamim Ara passed away today in a hospital in London, UK after a protracted illness. She was born in 1938 at Aligarh, British India and starred in her first Pakistani movie in 1956. Her photogenic face and coy acting style soon made her the object of adoration in every Pakistani household. She will always be remembered for her moving portrayals of the young, urban Pakistani woman of the 1950s and 1960s who belongs to a lower middle class background and whose identity and need for personal love are brutally repressed by a conservative society and social control mechanisms emanating from society's power structures. Shamim Ara's most remembered Pakistani movies are Nylaa, Saalgirah and Laakhon Mein Aik.