Shahid Latif

Shahid Lateef was a Director, Writer, and Producer in the Hindi Film industry. He was born on 11th June 1913 in Chandausi, Uttar Pradesh. He was the son of a zamindar. Shahid Lateef studied at Aligarh Muslim University. He joined the college as a science student but soon lost his interest and gave up his studies. Later, he started writing for a few Urdu journals. After a year, the editor of an Urdu journal advised him to carry out his education. As per the editor's advice, he went to Aligarh and joined the university as an Arts student. He was studying and had also worked as a part-time journalist, writing fiction for a correspondent for National Call, Hindustan Times, and the Statesman. In 1938 he completed his BA degree and then MA.

He got married in 1941 and had two daughters. He moved to Bombay to start his career with Bombay Talkies Click to look into! >> Read More... , a noted film studio. After some time, he left Bombay Talkies. He founded a production house named ‘Filmistan.’ He also worked in Jayant Desai Productions as a writer, where he wrote Lalkar and Samrat Chandragupta. He has directed many films like Jawab Ayega (1968), Picnic (1966), Sone Ki Chidiya (1958), and much more. But at the age of 53 in Bombay, when he finished directing ‘Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi (1966),’  he succumbed to a cardiac arrest on 16th April 1967.