Whole showbiz industry is sad as our favorite novelist and Drama writer Bajiya api has been hospitalized. She has been admitted to Aga Khan Hospital Karachi. She is in Intensive care unit majority of showbiz celebrities have gone for meeting Great Suriya Bajiya but so far doctors haven’t let anybody to meet her as she is going through intensive care. Suriya Bajia has written lot of novels and dramas. She is master of her work, she has given us some great entertainment through her tremendous work and many famous drama serials of PTV are on her credit.
She also worked as an actress in start of her career but she left it and after that she started writing for PTV. She has many successful dramas to her name like Shama 1974,Tasveer-e-Kainaat, Asaavari , Tasweer, Sassi Punno, Aabgeenay, Anarkali, Auraq, Afshaan, Aroosa, Babar,Tareekh-o-Tamseel, Ghar aik Nagar, Faraz Aik Karz and many many more. It wont be wrong if one call her the most talented female writer of Pakistan showbiz industry. She was born on 1 September 1930 and is almost 84 years of age.
She started her career from PTV Islamabad and never looked back after that, about her childhood she said in an interview that “I never attended a formal school. The elders of the family decided that all my education should take place at home. The teacher lived in our home where we were taught discipline along with our education. My family was settled in Hyderabad Deccan, which was then a paramount cultural center in undivided India. Although there were a few prominent schools e.g. Saint Josephs School, although my grandfather could afford the fee (which was Rs. 20), he still preferred to educate us at home.
These schools were primarily attended by pampered girls from the elite families of nawabs and jagirdars. From the beginning we were taught self-sufficiency, although we employed 60 to 70 servants, we were not allowed to ask anyone of them for water. There was a huge difference between girls of the elite families and us. My grandfather felt that if we attended such schools, we would suffer from an inferiority complex, but since proper upbringing is not possible without coaching, he decided to carry out our education at home.
Nevertheless, we were taught all the subjects that were taught in the formal Hyderabad schools with separate teachers for every subject e.g. calligraphy and maths.”Her prominent siblingas are Anwar Maqsood and Zubaida Apa. We pray that Allah Almighty bless her with good health and long life Ameen.
