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Shakila is a singer-songwriter.
Shakila is an actress, best known for her roles in Guru Dutt's films: Aar Paar (1954) and C.I.D. (1956). She also starred with Shammi Kapoor in Shakti Samanta's China Town (1962). She retired from films in 1963 when she married and decided to move to the United Kingdom with her husband who was not from the film industry. Her sister Noor (short for Noorjehan) was married to Johnny Walker (actor).
The famous song baabuujii dhiire chalanaa from Aar Paar was filmed on her.
Shakila is a citizen of Afghanistan. The Bonn Conference that chose Hamid Karzai as the leader of the Afghan Transitional Administration charged him to appoint a Constitutional Loya Jirga. Karzai appointed Shakila one of 502 appointees. She sat on the first of the Loya Jirga's ten committees, chaired by Ustad Sayaf. She was a member of the Gender and Law Working Group as a representative of the Ministry of Women’s Affairs.
She was profiled in the 2005 book "Twilight of empire: responses to occupation", where she was described as a Hazara educator who has condemned fundamentalism.
Shakila is a female given name of Arabic origin meaning beautiful. It may refer to:
- Shakila, Iranian musician active 1990–present
- Shakila (actress), Indian film actress active 1949–1963
- Shakila (Kabul), member of Afghanistan Constitutional Loya Jirga