11 Facts About Shahid Nadeem

Shahid Mahmood Nadeem is a Pakistani journalist, playwright, screenwriter, theater and television director, and a human rights activist.

Shahid Nadeem served as the general manager, program director, and deputy managing director of the Pakistan Television Corporation.

Shahid Nadeem is currently director of the Ajoka Theater and director of the PTV Academy.

Shahid Nadeem was born to a Muslim family in 1947, during the partitioning of British India, in Sopore, Kashmir, to a well-known doctor; the family later settled in Lahore, Punjab.

Shahid Nadeem has directed and written plays for the theater as well as a number of TV series, most of them for PTV.

In 1995, Shahid Nadeem directed and wrote two television serials for the Pakistan Television Corporation including Neelay Hath.

Shahid Nadeem wrote a hit comedy television series Janjaal Pura for PTV during the 2000s.

In 2012 Shahid Nadeem wrote a play Kaun Hai Yeh Gustakh, directed by Madeeha Gauhar, which was first performed at the Alhamra Arts Council in Lahore on 14 December 2012 by the Ajoka Theater group.

In 2013, Shahid Nadeem started writing the script for the television serial Main Manto based on the life of Saadat Hasan Manto.

Shahid Nadeem has a daughter, Savera Shahid Nadeem, from his first marriage who is a television actress.

Nadeem and Gauhar first met in London when Shahid was working at Amnesty International and Gauhar was on a study scholarship from the British Council.