Shyam (actor)


Sunder Shyam Chadda was an Indian actor in Hindi cinema. He began his career in 1942 and worked in various films until his death during the shoot of the 1951 film Shabistan.
He originally hailed from Sialkot but grew up in Rawalpindi. Shyam graduated from Gordon College in Rawalpindi. He was a close personal friend of Saadat Hasan Manto and was the inspiration of many of his stories. Even after partition, their bond of friendship endured. One of his most famous movies was Bazaar, released in 1949, in which he starred with Nigar Sultana. He married a Muslim, Mumtaz Qureshi, with whom he had a daughter, Pakistani TV actress Sahira Kazmi, married to actor Rahat Kazmi, and a son named Shakir, a psychiatrist based in UK. Mumtaz migrated to Lahore, Pakistan, after his premature death in 1951, along with her elder sister, Zeb Qureshi, who was an actress in Bombay. She later married a gentleman, Ansari after Shyam's death.
Shyam acted in many memorable films: Man ki jeet, Majboor, Dillagi , Patanga , Chandni Raat, Meena Bazaar and Samadhi .

Death

Shyam died on the set of the film Shabistan in 1951 after he fell off a horse during filming. His few remaining scenes were completed with a body-double who had a similar height to him and filmed from behind without showing his face.

In film

was seen portraying Shyam in the film Manto, a biopic on Saadat Hasan Manto. The film was released in September 2018.