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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{for|the Pakistani air vice-marshal and geostrategist|Shahid Lateef}}<br />
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|birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1913|06|11}}<br />
|birth_place = [[Chandausi]], [[Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
|death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1967|04|16|1913|06|11}}|death_place =<br />
|years_active= 1941-1967<br />
|spouse = [[Ismat Chughtai]]<br />
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|occupation = [[film director]], [[screenwriter]], [[film producer]]<br />
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'''Shaheed Lateef''' (11 June 1913 - 16 April 1967) was [[Hindi film]] director, writer, and producer. He was the maker of films like ''[[Ziddi (1948 film)|Ziddi]]'' (1948) which launched [[Dev Anand]]'s career and ''[[Arzoo (1950 film)|Arzoo]]'' (1950) starring [[Dilip Kumar]] and [[Kamini Kaushal]]. Noted Urdu poet [[Kaifi Azmi]] started his career as a lyricist with his film ''[[Buzdil]]'' in 1951.<br />
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==Early life and background==<br />
He was born in [[Chandausi]], [[Uttar Pradesh]] and studied at [[Aligarh Muslim University]], here he not just befriended [[Saadat Hasan Manto]],<ref name="Manto2012">{{cite book|author=Saadat Hasan Manto|title=Stars from Another Sky: The Bombay Film World of The 1940s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HbNstgAACAAJ|date=2012|publisher=Penguin Books, Limited|isbn=978-0-14-341536-7}}</ref> but also [[Ismat Chughtai]] (1915–1991), who also went to become a noted Urdu writer. They married in 1941, and later had two daughters.<ref name="Samiuddin2007">{{cite book|author=Abida Samiuddin|title=Encyclopaedic Dictionary of Urdu Literature (2 Vols. Set)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-otQriwQ9z4C&pg=PA132|year=2007|publisher=Global Vision Publishing Ho|isbn=978-81-8220-191-0|pages=132}}</ref><br />
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==Career==<br />
Lateef shifted to Bombay (now Mumbai) and started his career with [[Bombay Talkies]], a noted film studio of Hindi film industry, where he wrote dialogues for [[Ashok Kumar]]-starrer, ''[[Naya Sansar (1941 film)|Naya Sansar]]'' (1941), followed by [[Amiya Chakravarty (director)|Amiya Chakravarty]]'s ''Anjaan'' (1941) and [[Gyan Mukherjee]]'s ''[[Jhoola (1941 film)|Jhoola]]'' (1941). This led to his directorial debut with ''[[Ziddi (1948 film)|Ziddi]]'' (1948), on a story by [[Ismat Chughtai]]. The film also established the career of actor [[Dev Anand]].<ref name="Patel2012">{{cite book|author=Bhaichand Patel|title=Bollywood's Top 20: Superstars of Indian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RQL4dkVAnPIC&pg=PA103|year=2012|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-670-08572-9|pages=103}}</ref> The husband wife duo worked together on many films, where Ismat was sometimes a scenarist, a writer or at times even producer.<br />
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He died in Mumbai, Maharashtra on 16 April 1967.<br />
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==Filmography==<br />
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* ''Jawab Ayega'' (1968) - Director<br />
* ''[[Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi]]'' (1966) - Director<br />
* ''Picnic'' (1966) - Director<br />
* ''[[Sone Ki Chidiya]]'' (1958) - Director<br />
* ''Society'' (1955) - Director<br />
* ''Darwaza'' (1954) - Director<br />
* ''[[Fareb (1953 film)|Fareb]]'' (1953) - Director<br />
* ''Sheesha'' (1952) - Director<br />
* ''[[Buzdil]]'' (1951) - Director<br />
* ''[[Arzoo (1950 film)|Arzoo]]'' (1950) - Director<br />
* ''Shikayat'' (1948) - Director<br />
* ''[[Ziddi (1948 film)|Ziddi]]'' (1948) - Director<br />
* ''Anjaan'' (1941) - Dialogue<br />
* ''[[Jhoola (1941 film)|Jhoola]]'' (1941) - Screenwriter, Dialogue<br />
* ''[[Naya Sansar (1941 film)|Naya Sansar]]'' (1941) - Dialogue<br />
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==References==<br />
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==External links==<br />
* {{IMDb name|id=0490178|name=Shaheed Latif}}<br />
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[[Category:1913 births]]<br />
[[Category:1967 deaths]]<br />
[[Category:Indian Muslims]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian film directors]]<br />
[[Category:Hindi-language film directors]]<br />
[[Category:Indian male screenwriters]]<br />
[[Category:Film producers from Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:Aligarh Muslim University alumni]]<br />
[[Category:People from Sambhal district]]<br />
[[Category:Film directors from Uttar Pradesh]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian screenwriters]]<br />
[[Category:20th-century Indian male writers]]</div>->Ser Amantio di Nicolao