riaz shahid (1927 - october 1, 1972) was a noted pakistani filmmaker, movie writer, and journalist. his real name was "sheikh riaz", but was called by his nickname "shahid". riaz was from lahore where he started his career as a journalist for newspaper "chataan" and later joined faiz ahmed faiz's "lail-o-nihar". he also wrote a novel named "hazar dastaan".