Samiya Mumtaz is one of those actors whom people love purely for their talent and strong performances. They are not in the game for fame or glamour, it is just their love for art that brings them onto the screen. From Meri Zaat Zara e Benishan to Udaari and Sang e Mah, Samiya Mumtaz has always shown the world how great an actor can be without traditional spices of glitz and glamour and success ultimately depends on your hard work and how you perform.
Samiya Mumtaz is the daughter of prominent Pakistani architect Kamil Khan Mumtaz and renowned women’s rights activist/writer Khawar Mumtaz. She was raised in Lahore in a family intellectually engaged in art, architecture, and social activism, and is known for keeping her private life, including her children, out of the spotlight.
Samiya Mumtaz is grandniece of the veteran actress Uzra Butt and Zohra Segal. They both started their careers in late 1930s and worked with the legendary theatre and film personality Prithavi Raj Kapoor, the patriarch of the famous Kapoor clan of Bollywood. The two sisters, who belonged to Muslim nobility of Northern India, created a sensation in British India for adopting acting and dancing as a career. In the late ’40s, their careers were violently disrupted by the Partition of India. Uzra moved to Pakistan with her husband, but Zohra decided to stay in India and pursue her acting and dancing career, working with great dancer Uday Shankar, brother of Sitar maestro Ravi Shankar. There wasn’t much use (or respect) for Uzra’s acting talent in Pakistan where performing arts were regarded as anti-Islamic. She abandoned her acting career and became a housewife, until Shahid’s Ajoka Theatre rediscovered her in 1984. Since then, Uzra, now 85, has been a regular and leading member of Ajoka and has appeared on television as well. Zohra, 88, is a leading theatre, TV and film actor in India, and her daughter Kiran Segal is a prominent Indian classical dancer.
In 1993, the two sisters starred in Granny, acting together for the first time since their separation at the time of Partition. The play has since been performed in Pakistan, India and the UK, to great acclaim.
Samiya Mumtaz is a mother to two kids. She already had her kids when she acted in Meri Zaat Zara e Benishan.Her son name is Hatim and daughter name is Naval,Her son Hatim once appear with Samiya on sets of good morning Pakistan host by Nida Yasir.
Samiya Is coming in Hum Tv’s mega budget show Zanjeerain,its a show revolves around people of tribal areas, Samiya is playing powerful role of Bibi Jaan.These are some beautiful pictures of Samiya Mumtaz with her parents and children.
