Master Inayat Hussain (Punjabi, Urdu: ماسٹر عِنایَت حُسَین; 1916 – 26 March 1993) was a Pakistani film music composer.
[4] After receiving some basic education, he became a formal student of Ustad Bade Ghulam Ali Khan of Patiala gharana for learning the traditional classical music.
In the early part of his career, he worked in several theatrical organisations in Calcutta and Bombay in British India, both as a singer and as an actor.
In 1950, he got a breakthrough with his first super-hit song in film Shammi (1950) which was produced by the famous ghazal singer Malika Pukhraj.
And the next year in 1955, he even got attention from a highly-recognized personality in the Indian subcontinent in the field of classical music Amir Khan who made a special stopover in Lahore on his way back from his scheduled Afghanistan tour, just to meet him in Lahore and compliment him in person for composing the film song Ulfat Ki Nai Manzil Ko Chala for Anwar Kamal Pasha's film Qatil (1955), lyrics written by Qateel Shifai and skillfully sung by Iqbal Bano under his music direction.