However, most of his films written before partition remained unreleased due to political instabilities in the subcontinent.

[4] Saifuddin was born on 20 March 1922 in the household of Khawaja Meraj Din and was raised in Amritsar in British India.

He also worked as a producer, director and scriptwriter in Raat Ki Baat and Saat Lakh (1957), including Lollywood's historical film Kartar Singh (1959), which is claimed to have covered real events and bloodshed of the 1947 partition.

[9] Besides films, he primarily used to write poems which were sung by the prominent Pakistani singers, including Noor Jehan, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, and Mahdi Hasan.

[2][1][4] His life is covered in a MPhil thesis book titled Shair-e-Kujkulah by Robina Shaista.