one page slider wordpress

Hi,

I am using roots theme with and I implemented one page slider in to it. so this is my front page now -(see the code)
- the problem is that when i insert some shortcode in page or post doesnt working. Just shows me the shortcode from front-end.




<div id="container">
<a name="top"></a>
<?php
$args = array(
'sort_order' => 'ASC',
'sort_column' => 'menu_order', //post_title
'hierarchical' => 1,
'exclude' => '',
'child_of' => 0,
'parent' => -1,
'exclude_tree' => '',
'number' => '',
'offset' => 0,
'post_type' => 'page',
'post_status' => 'publish'
);
$pages = get_pages($args);
//start loop
foreach ($pages as $page_data) {
$content = apply_filters('the_content', $page_data->post_content);
$title = $page_data->post_title;
$slug = $page_data->post_name;
?>
<div class='<?php echo "$slug" ?>'><a name='<?php echo "$slug" ?>'></a>

<?php echo "$content" ?>
</div>




<?php
}
get_footer();
?>