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“Shahida”, one of the first pakistani movies, from 1949.

Released a year after the first pakistani movie “Teri Yaad”, this muslim social was directed by Luqman, and starred Shamim, Nasir Khan, Begum Parveen, Shakir and Himalayawalla, and with Music by Ghulam Haider, with songs by Munawar Sultana (not to be confused with the indian actress of the same name).

Shamim (1920-1984) had two years earlier, shortly before partition, starred in the muslim social “Nateeja”, and “Shahida” was one of her first movies in Pakistan. A few years later she married the director Anwar Kemal Pasha, and would retire from acting all together.

“Shahida” would also be the last movie of Nasir Khan in Pakistan, as he shortly after its release returned to India. In India, he would marry the actress Begum Para and act till his death in the 70s, though he never would get past the shadow of his older brother Dilip Kumar.

Himalayawalla would also not find that big of a success in Pakistan outside of character roles and villains. Two years earlier he had his most famous role pre-partition, in the Mehboob Khan directed muslim social Elan, opposite Munawar Sultana and Surendra.

Like all of the 7 movies from the 40s in Pakistan, the movie is very rare and hard to get, except for its soundtrack.

Notice that the title on the poster is in devanagari as well - this would continue until the early 50s, when the devanagari would be replaced by bengali script, as a token for the bengali speaking population of East Pakistan, a trend that continued till Bangladesh got independent from Pakistan in the early 70s.