Shama Zaidi was born on 25 September 1938 and is an Indian screenplay writer, costume designer, art director, theatre person, art critic, and documentary film maker.
17 Facts About Shama Zaidi
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Shama Zaidi Was Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award at ICA - International Cultural Artifact Film Festival in 2021.
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Shama Zaidi is the daughter of Bashir Hussain Zaidi, a politician and educationist, and his wife Qudsia Zaidi.
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Shama Zaidi's mother Qudsia was an associate of Habib Tanvir, the communist ideologue and theatre personality.
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Shama Zaidi was educated at Woodstock School, Mussoorie, and then at Miranda House, New Delhi.
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Shama Zaidi has a bachelor's degree in English from Delhi University, and a diploma in stage design from the Slade School of Art, London.
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Shama Zaidi became interested in costume design while in school at Woodstock, Mussoorie, which had extensive theatre activities.
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Also due to the influence of her mother Qudsia Shama Zaidi, who started the Hindustani Theatre in the late 1950s with Habib Tanvir and other friends.
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Shama Zaidi then worked in Germany at the Frankfurt Municipal Theatre as an apprentice and for some time as an observer in the Berliner Ensemble.
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Shama Zaidi returned to Delhi in 1961 and designed costumes for Hindustani Theatre before shifting to Bombay in 1965 where she worked as Writer, Designer, Performer and Director for Indian People's Theatre Association, Mumbai.
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Shama Zaidi had been associated with the IPTA's Inter collegiate Drama Competition since 1972 as a jury member.
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Shama Zaidi has worked as Costume Designer and Art Director.
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Direction Shyam Benegal; Screenplay Shama Zaidi Based on Habib Tanvir's retelling of a famous Rajasthani folk tale.
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Direction Satyajit Ray; Costume Design Shama Zaidi Also assisted Ray with research on the background material and translated dialogues with Javed Siddiqi for the Indian characters in Urdu.
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Direction M S Sathyu; Script Shama Zaidi Based on the exploits of a legendary dacoit of the Malnad region in Karnataka.
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Direction Shyam Benegal; Art direction Shama Zaidi Based on the biography of Hansa Wadkar, a star of the Marathi folk theatre and cinema of the 1940s.
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Direction Shyam Benegal; Script Shama Zaidi Based on a famous land dispute case.