Syed Shaukat Hussain Rizvi (1914 – 19 August 1999) was a Pakistani actor, film producer and director. He is widely considered to be a pioneer of the

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Early life and career

Shaukat Hussain Rizvi was born in the city of

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, Uttar Pradesh in 1914. He began his career as an assistant projectionist in

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in the early 1930s. Then he was given a job in the editing department of ''Madan Theatres''. By 1942, Rizvi was promoted to a film director and was assigned by the producer Dalsukh M. Pancholi to direct a film named

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(1942) starring

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and

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in the lead roles. The script of this film was written by

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. After the huge success of this film, Shaukat Hussain Rizvi later married Noor Jehan in 1944. Their marriage produced three children: Akbar Hussain Rizvi, Asghar Hussain Rizvi and a daughter

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. After the

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in 1947, Rizvi along with his wife

and their 3 children moved to Pakistan and later made several films in Pakistan. His marriage to Jehan ended in 1953 with a divorce. He later married a Pakistani actress

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. He had two children with Yasmin: Shehnshah Hussain Rizvi and Ali Hussain Rizvi.

Death and legacy

Shaukat Hussain Rizvi died on 19 August 1999 at

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, Pakistan at age 85. Pakistani actors

Sonya Jehan Sonya Rizvi (; born 24 April 1980), better known by her stage name Sonya Jehan, is a French and Pakistani film actress who predominantly works in Urdu and Hindi-language films. She is the granddaughter of legendary singer Noor Jehan and filmm ...

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are his grandchildren.

Filmography

Following are his notable works:

Director

* (1942) * '' Naukar'' (1943) * '' Dost'' (1944) * '' Zeenat'' (1945) * '' Jugnu'' (1947) * ''

Chanway ''Chanway'' or ''Chan Wey'' () is a 1951 Pakistani Punjabi-language film directed Noor Jehan (in her directorial debut) with the supervision of Shaukat Hussain Rizvi. It was written by Syed Imtiaz Ali Taj. Feroz Nizami provided the music ...

'' (1951) (a Punjabi language Pakistani film) * ''Gulnar'' (1953) * ''Jaan-e-Bahar'' (1958)

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hussain, Shaukat 1914 births 1999 deaths Muhajir people Pakistani film directors Pakistani male film actors Pakistani film producers Hindi film editors Film directors from Uttar Pradesh People from Azamgarh Hindi-language film directors Punjabi-language film directors Punjabi film editors Film editors from Punjab, India Mass media people from Lahore Indian emigrants to Pakistan