Shama Zaidi
| Shama Zehra Zaidi | |
|---|---|
| Born |
25 September 1938 Delhi |
| Occupation | screenwriter, costume designer |
| Spouse(s) | M. S. Sathyu |
Shama Zaidi (born 25 September 1938, at Rampur, India) is an Indian screenplay writer, costume designer, art director, theatre person, art critic, and documentary film maker. She is the wife of M S Sathyu, a filmmaker, designer, and art director who made the Urdu cult film Garam Hawa.
Shama Zaidi is the daughter of Bashir Hussain Zaidi, a politician and educationist, and his wife Qudsia Zaidi. Her mother Qudsia was an associate of Habib Tanvir, the communist ideologue and theatre personality. Shama was the only daughter of the couple and she has two brothers. Both her parents were closely associated with the "progressive" communist movement in India, and Shama grew up in a strongly left-wing environment. She was educated at , Mussoorie, and then at Miranda House, New Delhi. She has a bachelor's degree in English from Delhi University, and a diploma in stage design from the Slade School of Art, London.
Zaidi became interested in costume design while in school at Woodstock, Mussoorie, which had extensive theatre activities. Also due to the influence of her mother Qudsia Zaidi, who started the Hindustani Theatre in the late 1950s with Habib Tanvir and other friends. In her college days at Miranda House she started helping out with the stage productions there, apart from taking active interest in Hindustani Theatre.
After B A Shama went to Slade School of Art, London, for a one-year course in stage design and costume design. Then worked in Germany at the Frankfurt Municipal Theatre as an apprentice and for some time as an observer in the Berliner Ensemble. (Apprentice in stage, film and TV design to Herr Hein Heckroth, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. Herr Heckroth was the designer of Red Shoes Hoffman's Tales, etc.)
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