Meesha Shafi is a Pakistani-born Canadian singer, actress and model.
25 Facts About Meesha Shafi
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Meesha Shafi made her film debut with a supporting role in the 2013 Mira Nair's film The Reluctant Fundamentalist.
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Meesha Shafi achieved further critical success for her role of Laxmi, an Indian spy agency Research and Analysis Wing's operative, in Bilal Lashari's action thriller film Waar, which ranks among the highest-grossing Pakistani films of all time in Pakistan.
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Meesha Shafi did her A Levels from Lahore Grammar School and graduated with a degree in fine arts from National College of Arts in 2007.
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Meesha Shafi entered the modelling industry at the age of 17, when she starred opposite Jawad Ahmed in the music video for the song "Bin Teray Kya Hai Jeena".
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In 2009 Meesha Shafi became the brand ambassador for L'Oreal Paris Pakistan.
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Meesha Shafi has featured in many Pakistani magazines and in international publications such as L'Officiel and Vogue India.
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Meesha Shafi made her screen debut with the 2006 serial Muhabbat Khawab Ki Soorat on Hum TV.
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Meesha Shafi then appeared in Geo TV serial Ye Zindagi To Woh Nahi in 2007.
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Meesha Shafi made her film debut with Mira Nair's 2012 Hollywood film, The Reluctant Fundamentalist, alongside Kate Hudson and Riz Ahmed.
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Meesha Shafi had a minor role and appeared in only two scenes in the film in the role of the male lead's sister.
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Meesha Shafi then acted in Bilal Lashari's Pakistani film Waar, alongside Shaan Shahid.
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In 2016, Meesha Shafi has a lead role in the TV costume drama Mor Mahal which is set in the mid-19th century.
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In 2023, Meesha Shafi appeared in the film Mustache, which premiered at the South by Southwest film festival.
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Meesha Shafi started her singing career with the band Overload with her husband, but left in 2011.
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Meesha Shafi sang along with the internationally acclaimed folk singer Arif Lohar on Coke Studio Pakistan Season 3, with the song "Alif Allah ".
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Meesha Shafi sang a rendition of the folk song "Chori Chori", which received mixed reviews.
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Meesha Shafi returned to Coke Studio in 2012 when she sang "Ishq Aap Bhi Awalla" with the Chakwalees and sang a ghazal by Faiz Ahmad Faiz, "Dasht-e-Tanhai".
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In 2014, Meesha Shafi returned to the Coke Studio floor for a third time to perform "Sun Ve Balori" with the composer and tabla guru Ustad Tafu and producers Strings.
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In July 2017, Meesha Shafi joined Fawad Khan and Farooq Ahmed in the audition round as judge while Khan, Shafi, Atif Aslam and Shahi Hasan were the judges in the knockout round of Pepsi Battle of the Bands Season 2.
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Meesha Shafi's maternal grandfather, Hameed Akhtar, was a novelist and newspaper columnist, president of the Progressive Writers' Movement, and editor of Urdu daily newspapers including Imroz and Nawa-e-Waqt.
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Meesha Shafi filed a case with the Punjab Ombudsperson, who declined to hear the case because she "did not have an employer-employee relationship" with Zafar.
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Meesha Shafi's case helped in spotting out loophole in Pakistani justice system according to which a woman cannot make harassment allegations against someone unless she's employed by the accused party.
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Meesha Shafi denied these accusations, arguing that she was already a celebrity as well as a Canadian citizen at the time of the original complaint.
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Meesha Shafi won an appeal against Lahore High Court's decision to stop her defamation case in favor of Zafar's on 19 January 2022.