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Celebrities / Actor

Javed Sheikh

Actor, director and producer

Javed Sheikh, also spelled Jawed or Javaid, is an actor, director and producer whose career covers half a century. He was born in Rawalpindi and made his debut in Dhamaka, released on 14 December 1974 and written by the novelist Ibn-e-Safi. Over the following decades he acted in more than 100 films in Urdu, Punjabi and Sinhala.

He is one of the few performers with a real second career in Hindi cinema. His Indian credits include Om Shanti Om, Namastey London, My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves and Money Hai Toh Honey Hai. At home he moved between eras: Na Maloom Afraad (2014), Bin Roye, Wrong No. and Jawani Phir Nahi Ani (all 2015), Mehrunisa V Lub U and Na Maloom Afraad 2 (both 2017), Saat Din Mohabbat In and the action comedy Teefa in Trouble (both 2018).

Behind the camera, he directed his first film, Mushkil, in 1995, and Yeh Dil Aap Ka Huwa in 2002. He has also worked in television on PTV, Hum TV, Geo Entertainment and A-Plus. In 2026 he is in the cast of Hurmat, which is on air now.

His directing career has had highs and lows. Khulay Aasman Ke Neechay, shot in four countries, lost Rs 80 million. In 2018 he directed and acted in Wujood. In India he played Ranbir Kapoor's father in Tamasha (2015) and appeared in Happy Bhaag Jayegi (2016), a film that also featured his daughter, the actress Momal Sheikh.

Credits in detail

Hurmat (2026) on air now on HUM TV. Javed Sheikh is in the cast; the serial is written by Kashif Anwar and directed by Nadeem Siddique. Also in the cast: Dananeer Mobeen, Shahveer Jafry and Ali Tahir.

Known for

Om Shanti Om · Namastey London · Hurmat

Now and next

Work on ShowBuzz

  • Hurmat

    Drama · HUM TV · 2026. Hurmat, played by Dananeer Mobeen, is a young woman from a conservative house whose education takes her into a city and a university. Published previews say she meets a fellow student there, played by Shahveer Jafry. HUM TV’s own episode titles do not print a plot recap, so this page does not invent one.

  • Ankahi

    Drama · PTV · 1982. Sana Murad is young, ambitious and broke. Her father died early, and her younger brother Jibran needs heart surgery the family cannot pay for. She fails a job interview because she has no experience, then meets the company chairman by chance and lands a job in his office, where she cannot type or take dictation, to the despair of her boss, Taimoor.

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