S. M. Yusuf

Shaikh Muhammad Yusuf ( 17 August 1994), known professionally as S. M. Yusuf, was a Pakistani film director and producer.

He made fourteen films in British India and later after the split of India subcontinent, he worked in Pakistani cinema and made thirteen films, including the blockbuster Saheli (1960) and Aulad (1962).

He was the recipient of 3 Nigar Awards for Best Director in Pakistan and earlier in India, he had become the recipient of an award conferred by the first prime minister of India Jawahar Lal Nehru.

Biography S. M. Yusuf was born in 1910 in Bombay (in modern-day Mumbai), and then moved to Pakistan in the 1950s. Before the partition of India in 1947, he was active in Hindi cinema. He made his professional debut in Bollywood industry around 1936 with the film Bharat Ka Lal. During the 1950s, he made six films in India.

S. M. Yusuf also introduced two important actors, Waheed Murad and Qavi Khan, to the Pakistani film industry in his films.

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Death He died in Lahore, Pakistan on 17 August 1994 at age 84.

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