Salman Shahid (Urdu: سلمان شاہد) is a Pakistani film, theatre, television and voice actor.
[2][3][4] In 1976, Pakistan National Council of the Arts (PNCA) gave Salman a scholarship to study film-making in Moscow for four years.
Salman has been directing plays since his college days, such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman in 1973 and later Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters In Search of an Author in 2007, and, when it comes to television, he wrote, directed and acted in the serial Bano Ko Pehchano (Geo TV) for which he received nominations in all departments of his work at the 2006 Lux Style Awards.
[5] His production Tassadum was selected at the Cairo International Festival of Experimental Theatre.
[6] Salman has acted in films in India, playing a main protagonist in Kabul Express (2006) and the main antagonist in Ishqiya (2010), both films having run the international festival circuit.