Shahid Nadeem
| Shahid Nadeem | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Shahid Mahmood Nadeem 1947 (age 70) Kashmir, British India |
| Residence | Lahore, Punjab |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
| Occupation | Human rights activist, journalist, playwright, screenwriter, theatre director, television director |
| Years active | 1970s-present |
| Employer |
PTV (DMD) Ajoka Theater (Executive Director) |
| Notable work | Toba Tek Singh (1992) Uraan (1995) Bullah (2001) Burqavaganza (2008) Kaun Hai Yeh Gustakh (2012) |
| Spouse(s) | Madeeha Gauhar |
| Children |
Savera Nadeem (Daughter) Sarang (Son) |
| Awards | List of awards |
Shahid Mahmood Nadeem (Urdu: شاہد ندیم) (born 1947 Kashmir) is an award-winning Pakistani journalist, playwright, screenwriter, theater and television director, and a human rights activist. He served as the general manager, program director, and deputy managing director of the Pakistan Television Corporation. He is currently director of the Ajoka Theater and also director of the PTV Academy.
Nadeem was born to a Muslim family in 1947 during the partitioning of British India in Kashmir; he later settled in Lahore, Punjab.
Nadeem began his career as a human rights and social activist in Lahore. During the era of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, he was imprisoned three times in 1969, 1970, and in 1979 for his political activism. In 1980, he was forced to go abroad and moved to London where he worked for Amnesty International between 1980 and 1988, and from 1991 to 1993 in Hong Kong, and after that in Los Angeles.
Nadeem has directed and written several plays for the theater as well as a number of TV series, most of them for PTV. The majority of his plays are written in Urdu and Punjabi, but he has also adapted a few English plays. Nadeem also writes for a number of newspapers, among them The Express Tribune.
In 1995, Nadeem directed and wrote two television serials for the Pakistan Television Corporation. One of them is the political drama Zard Dopehar which aired on PTV and starred Shujaat Hashmi and Samina Peerzada. The story centres around a corrupt politician who grew up in a typical middle-class family. Another of his TV series, Uraan, aired in the same year on PTV and was very popular. Its story focused on the culture and management at Pakistan International Airlines (PIA). It was shot mostly at the Jinnah International Airport, Karachi, but some of it was filmed in Kathmandu, London, Nairobi, New York City and Paris. Shakeel played the lead as a PIA aircraft captain and Faryal Gohar as a senior flight purser.
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