
Surprisingly most of the winners (and nominees) won big in their respective debut year.
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On the other hand, there are names like Saba Qamar, Mahira Khan, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Atif Aslam, Ali Zafar and Fawad Khan who cracked the code and made quite a mark in the competitive play-field of Bollywood.Īs Filmfare Awards 2018 are going to start in a few hours from now, we dig into the archives and track the many Pakistani artists who brought the coveted trophy home, or were nominated in the main categories.

If the footsteps of Pakistani talent across the border is traced, one comes across names like Mohammad Ali, Zeba, Talat Hussain, Humayun Saeed, Moammar Rana, Sana, Meera and Veena Malik, who, at one point in their careers, tried to taste the salt of the Bollywood sea but were not successful.

Pakistani talent brimming in the Indian film industry may sound like a recent phenomenon but this exchange started decades ago. The extremely talented Saba Qamar has managed to get nominated in the Best Actress category which was announced earlier this week. Many Indian critics have highlighed how unfair Filmfare Best Actor nominations are because surprisingly the supremely talented Raj Kumar Rao is completely sidelined, despite credible releases like Trapped and Newton. 2017 was a year where major actors from Pakistani Television debuted in Bollywood. It witnessed the much talked about debut of Mahira Khan in Raees followed by Saba Qamar in Hindi Medium, and then came Adnan Siddiqui and Sajal Ali in Mom.
