Biography of nasir hussain indian film director

Indian film director and screenwriter

This article is about the film producer. For the cricketer, see Nasser Hussain. For the actor, see Nazir Hussain.

Mohammad Nasir Hussain Khan (16 November 1926 – 13 March 2002), better known as Nasir Hussain, was an Indian film producer, film director, and screenwriter.^[4] With a career spanning decades, Hussain has been credited as a major trendsetter in the history of Hindi cinema.

For example, he directed Yaadon Ki Baraat (1973), which created the Hindi languagemasala film genre that defined Hindi cinema in the 1970s and 1980s,^[5] and he wrote and produced Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988), which set the Hindi language musicalromance template that defined Hindi cinema in the 1990s.^[6][7] Akshay Manwani wrote a book on Hussain's cinema titled Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Husain.^[8]

Early life

Hussain was born in Bhopal State on 16 November 1926