Shaheed Latif

Shaheed Lateef befriended Saadat Hasan Manto, but also Ismat Chughtai (1915–1991). Lateef and Chughtai married in 1941, and later had two daughters. ==Career==

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), followed by Amiya Chakravarty's Anjaan (1941) and Gyan Mukherjee's Jhoola (1941). This led to his directorial debut with Ziddi (1948), on a story by Ismat Chughtai. The film also established the career of actor Dev Anand. The husband wife duo worked together on many films, where Ismat was sometimes a scenarist, a writer or at times even producer. He died in Mumbai, Maharashtra on 16 April 1967. ==Filmography==

• Jawab Ayega (1968) - Director • (1966) - Director • Picnic (1966) - Director • Sone Ki Chidiya (1958) - Director • Society (1955) - Director • Darwaza (1954) - Director • Fareb (1953) - Director • Sheesha (1952) - Director • Buzdil (1951) - Director • Arzoo (1950) - Director • Shikayat (1948) - Director • Ziddi (1948) - Director • Anjaan (1941) - Dialogue • Jhoola (1941) - Screenwriter, Dialogue • Naya Sansar (1941) - Dialogue ==References==