[1] Babu Baral was born Ayub Akhtar in Ghakar Mandi, Punjab, Pakistan during 1964.
[3][4] After Baral's death his family struggled financially, pushing his elder daughter Tabeer to take up stage performances at the age of 17.
Over the next 20 years, the artist worked in over a thousand plays, with Shartiya Mithay and Bhukay Haatha Bataira being some of his biggest hits.
In fact, it was not just Lahore that Babu had taken over; he went on to perform around the world and had become an asset for Pakistani theater during the peak of his career [6] He not only acted but also wrote and directed plays, most famously Shartiya Mithay.
Babu had been suffering from various health issues, including cancer and kidney problems, for a long time before his death.