Sohail Ahmed

Sohail Ahmed
Born	Sohail Ahmed Gujranwala, Punjab, Pakistan
Other names	Azizi
Citizenship	Pakistani
Occupation	Actor, producer, director and writer
Known for	Comedy
Television	Hasb e Haal comedy show in 2009 - Present

Pride of Performance Award Recipient
Date	23 March 2011^[1]
Country	Islamic Republic of Pakistan
Presented by	Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan

Sohail Ahmed (Urdu: سہیل احمد‬‎), best known as Azizi (Urdu: عزیزی‬‎), is a Pakistani comedian and stage and TV actor. He is notable for comedy stage and TV dramas based in Lahore.^[2]

Career

He improvises dialogue during stage plays. In January 2009, Sohail plays the character Azizi in the show Hasb-e-Haal on Dunya News, where he does humorous commentary on current affairs and other topics.^[3] Most of the TV shows that he has acted in have been on Pakistan Television Corporation.^[2] Sohail Ahmed prefers to use unplanned dialogue during comedy shows.^[4]

Stage dramas

Shartiya Mithay^[5]
Kaali Chaadar
Feeqa In America

List of television shows

Hasb-e-Haal comedy show on Dunya News in 2016^[2]
Ullu Baraye Farokht Nahi drama on Hum TV in 2013

Films

Awards and honors

Pride of Performance Award by the President of Pakistan in 2011^[1]
Sitara-i-Imtiaz (Star of Excellence) Award by the President of Pakistan in 2013^[6]

References

1 2 Sohail Ahmed's 2011 Pride of Performance Award on The Express Tribune newspaper, Published 22 March 2011, Retrieved 26 September 2017
1 2 3 Profile of TV comedian Sohail Ahmed on tv.com.pk website, Retrieved 26 September 2017
↑ Anne Geniets (February 2011). Trust in international news media in partially free media environments (PDF) (Report). Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. p. 67. Retrieved 22 February 2014.
↑ Profile of Sohail Ahmed on urduwire.com website, Retrieved 26 September 2017
↑ Profile of TV Comedian Sohail Ahmed on pak101.com website, Retrieved 26 September 2017
↑ Sohail Ahmed's Sitara-i-Imtiaz Award listed on The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 14 August 2012, Retrieved 26 September 2017

Pride of Performance for Arts
1958–1959	Abdur Rehman Chughtai (1958) Zainul Abedin (1958) Hafeez Jalandhri (1958)
1960–1969	Roshan Ara Begum (1960) Sadequain (1962) Mehdi Ali Mirza (1962) Ghulam Mustafa Tabassum (1962) Ustad Allahbaksh (1963) Noor Jehan (1965) A.S.M. Qamarul Hasan (1965) Zubaida Agha (1965) Ferdausi Begum (1965) Sharif Khan Poonchwaley (1965) Imtiaz Ali Taj (1965) Shakir Ali (1966) Khwaja Moinuddin (1966) Ayat Ali Khan (1966) Ustad Haji Mohammad Sharif (1967) Ustad Munshi Raziuddin (1967) Rafi Peer (1967) Ali Imam (1968) Ahmad Nadeem Qasmi (1968) Ustad Amanat Ali Khan (1969) Bade Fateh Ali Khan (1969) Leila Arjumand Banu (1969) Umeed Ali Khan (1969) Mohammad Kibria (1969)
1970–1979	Ismail Gulgee (1970) Farida Khanum (1970) Abul Qasim Mohammad Moslehuddin (1970) Naheed Niazi (1970) Maqbool Ahmed Sabri (1970) Ustad Gul Mohammad Khan (1971) Munir Sarhadi (1978) Ahmed Pervez (1978) Iqbal Bano (1978) Ustad Manzoor Ali Khan (1978) Ghulam Farid Sabri (1978) Ibn-e-Insha (1978) Faiz Mohammad Baloch (1979) Anna Molka Ahmed (1979) Khamiso Khan (1979) Kishwar Sultan (1979) Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (Sitar Nawaz) (1979) Ghulam Ali (1979) Alam Lohar (1979) Mureed Buledi (1979) Misri Khan Jamali (1979) Pathane Khan (1979) Mohammad Azam Chishti (1979) Ashfaq Ahmed (1979)
1980-1989	Mohammad Qavi Khan (1980) Ustad Khyal Muhammad (1980) Allan Faqir (1980) Sohail Rana (1980) Aazar Zubi (1980) Malika Pukhraj (1980) Muhammad Juman (1980) Qari Shakir Qasmi (1981) Nasir Jehan (1981) Mansoor Tabish (1981) Qari Syed Ali Sharfuddin Yemni (1981) Nanhe Ali Khan (music performer))(1981) Roohi Bano (1981) Alexander Robert (1981) Mai Bhagi (1981) Uzma Gillani (1982) Qari Ubaidur Rehman (1982) Talat Hussain (1982) Tufail Niazi (1982) Reshma (1982) Arsh Muneer (1983) Ustad Nazar Hussain (1983) Atta Shad (1983) Qari Waheed Zafar Qasmi (1984) Begum Khursheed Mirza (1984) Abida Parveen (1984) Mohammad Ali (1984) Syed Anwar Hussain, Nafees Raqam (1985) Ustad Chhote Ghulam Ali Khan (1985) Bundu Khan (1985) Mehdi Hasan (1985) Qari Ghulam Rasool (1985) Siddiq Ismail (1985) Abid Ali (1985) Syed Mehmood Ali (1985) Sabiha Khanum (1986) Shahzad Khalil (1986) Suraiya Multanikar (1986) Firdous Jamal (1986) Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (1986) Azhar Lodhi (1986) Ustad Abdul Majeed Dehlvi (1987) Haseena Moin (1987) Aadil Salahuddin (1987) Ghulam Hassan Shaggan (1987) Sain Akhtar Hussain (1987) Qari Izhar Ahmed Thanvi (1987) Shaista Zaid (1988) Mustafa Qureshi (1988) Muzaffar Warsi (1988) Ustad Kabir Khan (1989) Ghulam Ahmed Chishti (1989) Musarrat Nazir (1989) Shafi Mohammad Shah (1989) Kamal Ahmed Rizvi (1989) Jameel Bismil (1989) Bushra Ansari (1989) Ameer Khan (1989) Amjad Hussain (1989) Ustad Salamat Ali Khan (1989) Aziz Mian (1989) Talish (1989) Maharaj Ghulam Hussain Kathak (1989) Mian Shaukat Hussain (1989) Jamil Naqsh (1989)
1990-1999	Salim Nasir (1990) Daud Kamal (1990) Khalid Hameed (1990) Shaukat Ali (1990) Ustad Sadiq Ali Khan Mando (1990) Ustad Hamid Ali Khan (1990) Ustad Fateh Ali Khan (1990) Mushtaq Gazdar (1990) * Ahmed Saeed Nagi (1990) Qari Mohammad Fida (1990) Iftikhar Arif (1990) Jamiluddin Aali (1991) Khursheed Alam known as Gohar Qalam (1991) Khayyam Sarhadi (1991) Attaullah Khan Essa Khailwi (1991) Ata ul Haq Qasmi (1991) Nayyar Ali Dada (1992) Shakeel (Yousuf Kamal) (1992) Noor Mohammad Lashari (1992) Tariq Aziz (1992) Mustansar Hussain Tarar (1992) Pervez Malik (1992) Jawed Iqbal (1992) Mian Ijazul Hasan (1992) Dr. Atta-ur-Rahman (1992) Munir Niazi (1992) Naseem Hijazi (1992) Waheed Qureshi (1993) Ismail Shahid (1993) Saeed Akhtar (1993) Ali Ejaz (1993) S.H. Hashmi (1993) Syed Manzoorul Kaunain (1993) Qari Syed Buzurg Shah Al-Azhari (1993) Agha Nasir (1993) Farooq Qaiser (1993) Bashir Mirza (1994) Ahmad Bashir (1994) Shahid Jalal (1994) Qari Mohammad Younus (1994) Qari Syed Ali Abid Naqvi (1994) Nisar Bazmi (1994) Hamid Ali Bela (1994) Zareena Baloch (1994) Naheed Siddiqui (1994) Shujaat Hashmi (1994) Qateel Shifai (1994) Allah Rakha (sarangi) (1995) Ustad Talib Hussain Khan (1995) Colin David (1995) Shoaib Hashmi (1995) Begum Khursheed Shahid (1995) Khursheed Ahmad (1995) Laila Shahzada (1995) Mashooq Sultan (1996) Safeerullah Lehri (1996) Qari Noor Mohammad (1996) Fatima Surayya Bajia (1996) Sehba Akhtar (1996) Ahmed Ghulam Ali Chagla (1997) Nadeem Baig (1997) Abdul Hameed (1997) Mumtaz Mirza (1998) Dilawar Figar (1999) Salima Hashmi (1999) Anwar Masood (1999) Anita Ghulam Ali (1999) Zafar Iqbal (poet) (1999)
2000-2009	Amjad Parvez (2000) Jamil Fakhri (2002) Nazia Hassan (2002) Askari Mian Irani (2002) Himayat Ali Shair (2002) Shoaib Mansoor (2002) Iftikhar Ahmad (2003) Syed Afzal Hussain (2003) Syed Munawwar Saeed (2003) Abdul Aziz Baloch (2003) Ghulam Mustafa (2003) Majeed Khan (sarangi player) (2003) Moneeza Hashmi (2003) Muhammad Ali Siddiqui (2003) Imdad Hussaini (2003) Yousuf Khan (actor) (2004) Mahtab Akbar Rashdi (2004) Chishty Bin Subh-o-Mujahid (2004) Navid Shahzad (2004) Salahuddin Toofani (2004) S. M. Naqi (2004) Haji Atta Muhammad (2004) Moin Niazi (2004) Shahida Parveen (2004) Tina Sani (2004) Niaz Ahmed (2004) Samiur Rahman (2004) Tariq Rahman (2004) Arfa Karim (2005) Rais Khan (2005) Arif Lohar (2005) Saeed Khan Rangeela (2005) Shafqat Tanvir Mirza (2005) Muhammad Mansha Yaad (2005) Shabnam Shakeel (2005) Tassawar Khanum (2005) Abdul Rauf Rufi (2005) Ustad Badar uz Zaman (2006) Ustad Qamar uz Zaman (2006) Zehra Nigah (2006) Naheed Akhtar (2007) Shaan (2007) Asad Amanat Ali Khan (2007) Hamid Ali Khan (2007) Faakhir Mehmood (2007) Munnu Bhai (2007) Allah Bukhsh (2008) Munni Begum (2008) Akhtar Munir (2008) Gopal Das (2008) Haji Mehr Ali (2008) Haji Sher Ali (2008) Nahid Raza (2008) Gul Bahar Bano (2008) Mujahid Hussain (2008) Late Rasheed Malik (2008) Sultana Siddiqui (2008) Abdul Karim Balouch (2008) Abdul Qadir Junejo (2008) M. Hanif Raza (2008) Nasreen Askari (2008) Shafqat Amanat Ali Khan (2008) Mansoor Rahi (2008) Tari Khan (2008) Rasheed Naz (2009) Ustad Shafqat Ali Khan (2009) Muhammad Younus Khan (2009) Emanuel Philip (2009) Rehana Siddiqui (2009) Shabbir Hussain (2009) Manzoor Hussain (2009) Parveen Nazzar (2009) Javaid Tufail Niazi (2009) Babar Ali Niazi (2009) Hajra Mansoor (2009) Behroze Sabzwari (2009) Obaidullah Baig (2009) Khalifa Muhammad Irshad Beg (2009)* Naseem Sultan (2009) Ghous Bux Brohi (2009) Sahib Dino Mallah (2009) Satish Chandra Anand (2009) Rubeena Malik (2009) Badar Munir (2009) Muhammad Gul (2009) Mehnaz Hyat (2009) Abdul Qadir (2009) Ghayyur Akhtar (2009)
2010-Present	Masarrat Misbah (2010) Rabia Zuberi (2010) Zulfiqar Ali (2010) Habib-ur-Rehman (2011) Khan Tehsil (2011) Abdul Rahim Nagori (2011) S. Amjad Bukhari (2011) S. B. John (2011) S.H. Qasim Jalali (2011) Samina Ahmad (2011) Sohail Ahmed (2011) Ustad Hussain Bukhsh Gullu (2011) Khalid Ahmad (2011) Ustad Muhammad Alam (2011) Ustad Sharafat Ali Khan (Late) (2011) Wazir Afzal (2011) Zafar Kazmi (Late) (2011) Moin Akhter (2011) Saira Kazmi (2012) Mohsin Gillani (2012) Noman Ijaz (2012) Saba Hameed (2012) Javed Sheikh (2012) Meera (2012) Rahat Naveed Masud (2012) Lutfullah Khan (2012) Tahira Syed (2013) Muhammad Ajmal Khan (2013) Alamgir (2013) Shahida Mini (2013) Naghma (2013) Shahid Abdullah (2014) Ustad Shafiquz Zaman Khan (2014) Aurangzeb Leghari (2014) Nazir Leghari (2014) Ayub Khawar (2014) Sarmad Khoosat (2017) Aslam Pervaiz (2018) Master Ghulam Haider (musician) (2018)

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