Meesha Shafi

Some Lesser Known Facts About Meesha Shafi

• Does Meesha Shafi smoke?: Not Known

• Does Meesha Shafi drink alcohol?: Not Known

• Her grandfather, Hamid Akhtar, was a novelist and newspaper columnist. He was the president of Progressive Writer’s Movement, a progressive literary movement in pre-partition British India. He was also an editor of Urdu daily newspapers, including Imroz and Nawa-e-Waqt.

• She hails from a family which is connected to the television world. Her mother, Saba Hameed, is a Pakistani TV actress.

• While at school, Meesha actively participated in a number of athletic sports. She was a competitive swimmer and had won a gold medal in diving.

• When 17, Meesha entered the modelling world with the music video of the song, ‘Bin Tere Kya Hai Jeena,’ starring Fawad Ahmad opposite her.

• She has featured in a number of Pakistani Magazines and in international publications, including L’Officiel and Vogue India.

• LOreal Paris Pakistan named her as their brand ambassador in the year 2009.

• Other than that of Sprite, she was featured in commercials of Coca-Cola, Fanta, Mobilink, Lipton Tea, LG Mobile Phones.

• Paper Magazine awarded her the ‘Best Show Stopper’ Award at the 2013 Paper Awards.

• ‘Hello!,’ a weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news, first published in the United Kingdom in 1998, an English edition of a Spanish weekly magazine, ‘¡Hola!,’ named her among the 100 most influential people in Pakistan, in 2013.

• She appeared in Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra’s 2013 film ‘Bhaag Milkha Bhaag,’ a film based on the life of an Indian Athlete, Milkha Singh. Meesha played the role of Perizaad, a swimmer who was romantically attracted towards Farhan Akhtar, one who played the character of Singh. 

• The character of Laxmi, a spy for the Indian intelligence agency, Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), for the film, Waar, bagged her the ‘Best Supporting Actress’ award at ARY Film Awards function, 2014.