Riaz Shahid

Riaz Shahid, whose real name was Sheikh Riaz, was born in 1927 in Quetta, into a Kashmiri family. A journalist in Lahore and close to the poet Habib Jalib, he entered the cinema as a screenwriter and then moved on to directing, devoting his films to the political causes of his time, from Palestine to Kashmir. In 1965 he married the actress Neelo, who had just refused to dance before the Shah of Iran; their son Shaan became an actor. He died in October 1972.

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• CinemaZarqaRiaz Shahid · 1969Cinema