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Shama Zaidi was born on 25 September, 1938 in Rampur, Rampur State, British India, is an Indian screenwriter. Discover Shama Zaidi's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is she in this year and how she spends money? Also learn how she earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Occupation Screenwriter · costume designer
Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Libra
Born 25 September, 1938
Birthday 25 September
Birthplace Rampur, Rampur State, British India
Nationality India

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1938

Shama Zaidi (born 25 September 1938) is an Indian screenplay writer, costume designer, art director, theatre person, art critic, and documentary film maker.

She is married to director M. S. Sathyu.

Shama Zaidi Was Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award at ICA - International Cultural Artifact Film Festival in 2021.

Shama Zaidi is the daughter of Bashir Hussain Zaidi, a politician and educationist, and his wife Qudsia Zaidi.

Her mother Qudsia was an associate of Habib Tanvir, the communist ideologue and theatre personality.

Shama was the only daughter of the couple and she has two brothers.

Both her parents were closely associated with the "progressive" communist movement in India, and Shama grew up in a strongly left-wing environment.

She was educated at Woodstock School, Mussoorie, and then at Miranda House, New Delhi.

She has a bachelor's degree in English from Delhi University, and a diploma in stage design from the Slade School of Art, London.

She is praised for her excellent screen writing in T.V serial "Bharat Ek Khoj".

Zaidi became interested in costume design while in school at Woodstock, Mussoorie, which had extensive theatre activities.

1940

Based on the biography of Hansa Wadkar, a star of the Marathi folk theatre and cinema of the 1940s.

Direction Muzaffar Ali; Script Shama Zaidi & Javed Siddiqi

1950

Also due to the influence of her mother Qudsia Zaidi, who started the Hindustani Theatre in the late 1950s with Habib Tanvir and other friends.

In her college days at Miranda House she started helping out with the stage productions there, apart from taking an active interest in Hindustani Theatre.

After her B.A., Shama went to Slade School of Art, London, for a one-year course in stage and costume design.

She then worked in Germany at the Frankfurt Municipal Theatre as an apprentice and for some time as an observer in the Berliner Ensemble.

(Apprentice in stage, film and TV design to Herr Hein Heckroth, Frankfurt am Main, West Germany. Herr Heckroth was the designer of Red Shoes Hoffman's Tales, etc.)

1961

She 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 (IPTA), Mumbai.

1972

She had been associated with the IPTA's Inter collegiate Drama Competition since 1972 as a jury member.

She has written scripts/dialogues for documentaries and feature films with Satyajit Ray, Shyam Benegal, M. S. Sathyu and others.

She has also worked as Costume Designer and Art Director.

Direction Shyam Benegal; Screenplay Shama Zaidi

Based on Habib Tanvir's retelling of a famous Rajasthani folk tale.

Songs were by Habib Tanvir and most of the dialogues were improvised by the folk artistes.

Based on a short story by Ismat Chugtai, which she expanded into a film treatment.

Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay (shared with Kaifi Azmi).

Direction Shyam Benegal; Art direction Shama Zaidi

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.

Direction M S Sathyu; Script Shama Zaidi

Based on the exploits of a legendary dacoit of the Malnad region in Karnataka.

Direction Shyam Benegal; Art direction Shama Zaidi

1980

Since 1980 she has designed more for films and television than theatre.

She worked as a writer, director, costume designer or art director for the following stage productions –

2019

Based on a 19th-century Urdu novel.

Direction Robin (Rabindra) Dharmraja; Script & Dialogues Shama Zaidi & Javed Siddiqi

Based on the novel by Jaywant Dalvi.

Direction M S Sathyu; Screenplay & Dialogues Shama Zaidi & Javed Siddiqi

Based on a short novel by U R Ananthamurthy.