Shaukat Hashmi was a film journalist who became film writer and director.
He started his film career in India but moved to Pakistan in the late 1950s.
Shaukat Hashmi made six films in Pakistan. Hamsafar (1960), Doctor (1965), Darinda & Jalay Na Kyun Parwana (1970), Veena-o-Meena (1977) and Bandhan (1980).