简介： Nasir Husain Khan was born in Bhopal, India. He was the fourth of five children born to Jaffar Husain Khan, a history teacher, and Aamna, a housewife. He grew up a mischievous child in an orthodox family that looked down on films and theatrical works. Nevertheless, Nasir found himself working on skits in the local area, much to the dismay of his family. He was also an avid reader. His father died when he was a teenager, which allowed him to pursue his interest in the arts more freely. He moved to Lucknow where he earned his BA degree. He wrote many short stories and radio plays and occasionally performed in them. He won a first-prize for a short story that he had submitted to a Urdu magazine "Aaj Khal". (He would much later adapt it into the stark drama Baharon Ke Sapne (1967)). He worked as a secretary for a year before moving to Bombay where he met people in the film industry. He told film producer Sasadhar Mukherjee about his writing credentials, who then hired him for his Filmistan studios. He was there for a decade writing films, such as Chandni Raat (1949), Shabnam (1949), Shabistan (1951), Shart (1954). He had a huge hit with history drama Anarkali (1953), but it was comedies Munimji (1955) and Paying Guest (1957) that started bringing him attention. It was on Munimji (1955) that he met an assistant choreographer named Margaret Francina Lewis. They fell in love and married, and she changed her name to Ayesha Khan, and they would have two children: Mansoor Khan and Nuzhat Khan. S. Mukherji gave him a chance to direct a comedy that Husain wrote titled Tumsa Nahin Dekha (1957). The lighthearted musical made a box-office star out of Shammi Kapoor, and cemented Husain's career as a writer and director, when the film became a big hit. The film set the foundation for his future films, that of a happy-go-lucky hero who woos the heroine by singing catchy songs and defeats the villain, and then the hero and heroine live happily ever after. He cast Kapoor again in Dil Deke Dekho (1959), which introduced a former child actress named Asha Parekh as the heroine. The film made a star out of Parekh and she remained Husain's heroine in his next six
