Urdu film
Shahida
Released date: Friday, 18 March 1949
Genre: Social film
Color: Black & White
Film company: Indo-American Pictures
Made in Lahore
Box office: Average
Title role(s):
ShamimDebut:
Anwar Kemal Pasha,
Shamim,
Himalayawala
According to the director of this film Luqman, it was first produced film in Pakistan, and the dialog on Shamim Allah meri izzat teray Haath mein hay.. was first ever recorded dialog for any Pakistani film, which was written by Hakeem Ahmad Shujaa (father of Anwar Kemal Pasha, famous film director). This film was started as Shafaq and its director was Fazal Shah but due to some untold facts, Luqman took over and made this romantic film as Shahida, which celebrated silver jubilees in Delhi and Lucknew, but had an average business in Pakistan.
It was also the second and the last film of Nasir Khan in Pakistan, and first film of Shamim who later married Anwar Kemal Pasha and left film industry.
Film Shahida (1949)
Main artists in film
Shahida
(Urdu - 1949)
Film credits of
Shahida
(Urdu - 1949)
| Actors | Shamim, Nasir Khan, Shammi, Himalayawala, Begum Parveen, Shakir, G.N. Butt, Nafees Begum, Rani Momtaz, Khalil Aftab |
| Director(s) | Luqman |
| Producer(s) | M. Akbar Shah |
| Writer(s) | Hakeem Ahmad Shuja, (also dialogues: Anwar Kemal Pasha) |
| Musician(s) | G.A. Chishti, Master Ghulam Haider |
| Poet(s) | Hakeem Ahmad Shujaa |
| Singer(s) | Munawar Sultana, Abdul Shakoor Bedal |
| Camera | Ahmad Ullah Ajmeri |
| Other's | Ass. director: Anwar Kemal Pasha |
Film songs in film
Shahida
(Urdu - 1949)
Box office reports of film
Shahida
(Urdu - 1949)
Lahore circuit
Released date: Friday, 18 March 1949
Film status: Average
Weeks: 7 weeks
Main theatre: Capital cinema
Karachi circuit
Released date: Friday, 18 March 1949
Film status: Flop
Weeks: 4 weeks
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