Nasir Hussain
Film director · Scorpio
About
Mohammad Nasir Hussain Khan, better known as Nasir Hussain, was an Indian film producer, film director, and screenwriter. 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 language masala film genre that defined Hindi cinema in the 1970s and 1980s, and he wrote and produced Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988), which set the Hindi language musical romance template that defined Hindi cinema in the 1990s. Akshay Manwani wrote a book on Hussain's cinema titled Music, Masti, Modernity: The Cinema of Nasir Hussain.
Family
Parent
- Jaffar Husain Khan not in the catalogue yet
Child
- Mansoor Khan not in the catalogue yet
- Nuzhat Khan not in the catalogue yet
Personal details
- Also known as
- Mohammad Nasir Hussain Khan
- Born
- November 16, 1926
- Birthplace
- Bhopal
- Nationality
- India
- Years active
- 1948–2002
Awards
- Filmfare Awards
