Bashir Niaz (9 July 1936 – 5 August 2002) was a Pakistani film story, dialogue, and screenwriter.
He is known for writing scripts/dialogues for blockbuster movies like Diya aur tofaan (1969), Aina (1977), and Bandish (1980).
[1] Niaz started his career as a screenwriter in 1963 by writing a script for the movie Chhoti Behan.
[1] In 1980, he was asked to write a Pakistani version of the Hollywood film Random Harvest (1942).
[2][3] During his long career as a screenwriter, he wrote stories and dialogues for many successful Urdu and Punjabi films.