Badar Khalil

Badar Khalil, also known as 'Baddo Aapa', is a Pakistani television actress. She gained popularity for her role in the TV play Bi Jamalo portraying herself as Bi Jamalo. She has appeared in TV serials on PTV since 1968. She also appeared in Mithu Aur Aapa, a comedy play on Hum TV.

Early life
Badar Khalil was born on 5 July, 1945 in Delhi in British India to a Kashmiri Muslim father and a Delhite mother. Her family moved to Lahore, Pakistan, during Partition of India in 1947.

Career
In Karachi, her first main appearance was in the drama Unkahi, a classic TV drama written by Pakistani playwright Haseena Moin. Badar Khalil started her career in 1968 as an anchor in children's shows on PTV. Initially, Badar Khalil gained recognition for the performance she gave in the play Bi Jamalo, in which she played Bi Jamalo herself, directed by Shahzad Khalil whom she had married (in real life) a few years before the drama hit screens.

In July 2014, she was getting ready to move to Canada after a 46-year-long professional acting career to live with one of her sons who lives there. Although she stayed and continued working with ARY Digital and Geo Entertainment.

Personal life
Badar lives in Karachi, where she had moved with her husband, the TV director Shahzad Khalil. In 1989, her husbanddied of cardiac arrest.

Television series

 * Bi Jamalo (1969) – PTV
 * Half Plate – PTV
 * Teesra Kinara (1980) - PTV
 * Ankahi (1982) – PTV
 * Tanhaiyaan (1985) – PTV
 * Dhoop Kinare (1987) – PTV
 * Parosi (1992) – NTM
 * Tumse Kehna Tha (1995)
 * Farar (1996)
 * Peela Jora (1997)
 * Pyar Agar Kabhi Phir Hua (PTV long Play)
 * Chaandni Raatain (2002) – PTV
 * Quddusi Sahab Ki Bewah (2012) – ARY Digital
 * Khali Haath
 * Malal
 * Dil Dard Dhuan
 * Kuch Ankahi Batein
 * Roza Kay Rozay
 * Colony 52
 * Aa Mere Pyar ki Khusboo
 * Khandan-e-Shughliya
 * Rait Hawa aur Aangan
 * Haroo Tou Piya Teri
 * Phir Youn Love Hua
 * Bezaban
 * Doraha
 * Marvi
 * Umrao Jan Ada
 * Sheeshay ka Mahal
 * Kinara Mil Gaya Hota
 * Rani Beti Raaj Karey
 * Chand Parosa
 * Veena
 * Hum Se Juda Na Hona
 * Qutubuddins
 * Boond Boond Tanhai
 * Tum Jo Miley
 * Faiz Manzil Kay Rozedar
 * Perfume Chowk
 * Madiha Maliha
 * Meri Behan Meri Dewrani
 * Shukk
 * Kitni Girhain Baqi Hain
 * Shareek-e-Hayat
 * Malaal
 * Mere Qatil Mere Dildaar
 * Shikwa
 * Yeh Shaadi Nahi Ho Sakti
 * Vasl
 * Tanhaiyan Naye Silsilay
 * Mithu Aur Aapa
 * Tum Milay
 * Khuda Gawah
 * Dil Jalta Hai

Film

 * Way to Hope
 * Yeh Dil Aap Ka Huwa
 * Khulay Aasman Ke Neechay