Hussain was born in
Shahabad on 19 September 1938 to Mohammed Jaffar Hussain Khan, a schoolteacher who belonged to a
zamindar family of
Pashtun descent, and Aamna, who traced her
Arab roots to
Jeddah (modern-day
Saudi Arabia) and was the niece of first education minister of India
Maulana Azad, and he was the youngest of five children. Tahir Hussain was the father of
Nikhat Khan, Farhat Khan,
Aamir Khan and
Faisal Khan.
Nasir Hussain - the hit film producer, director, writer - was Tahir Hussain's elder brother and mentor. Aamir acted in
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak, produced by his uncle Nasir Hussain and directed by his cousin
Mansoor Khan. Tahir Hussain directed his son Aamir for the first (and only) time in his directorial debut
Tum Mere Ho in 1990. On 2 February 2010, he died in
Mumbai following a severe heart attack. ==Filmography==