What is Hakim Ahmad Shuja?
'''Hakim Ahmad Shuja''' [[MBE]] (1893-1969) was an [[List of Urdu language poets|Urdu poet]], [[playwright]], [[scholar]] and early [[screenwriter|movie writer]] and [[lyricist]] of [[British India]], later [[Pakistan]].<ref>[http://www.celebritynetworth.com/view/m/00hnc342/ Celebrity net worth]{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Retrieved 21 Oct 2012</ref> He was born in [[Lahore]]'s old 'walled city'. Shuja wrote about the [[history]] and [[ethos]] of its [[Bhaati Gate]] and Bazaar i Hakiman areas in his [[memoir]]s ''Lahore ka Chelsea''(circa 1960s). He is accounted to be one of the old city's notable [[List of notable Lahoris|Lahoris]]. He is best known today for writing the screenplays for many early Indian and Pakistani [[movie]]s and for composing [[love|romantic]] lyrics and [[song]]s for some of them. His son, [[Anwar Kamal Pasha]], later became a major Pakistani film director and producer.<ref>A Mooraj, Pakistani Film Industry, 1947-1997' Lahore, 1997</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{bio-stub}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Shuja, Hakim Ahmad}} [[Category:1893 births]] [[Category:1969 deaths]] [[Category:Indian Muslims]] [[Category:Urdu poets]] [[Category:Indian screenwriters]] [[Category:Writers from Lahore]] [[Category:Lyricists]] [[Category:Cinema of Pakistan]] [[Category:Members of the Order of the British Empire]] [[Category:Pakistani poets]]