[note 1] She was the wife of prominent Pakistani film director and producer Anwar Kamal Pasha, and thus daughter-in-law of poet, writer and scholar Hakim Ahmad Shuja.
[2] Shamim Bano was born in Lahore, British India, in 1920 to a family of Pathan farmers and small landowners.
Later they settled in the Punjab region but her parents sold most of their birthright and shifted to Lahore and later Bombay (now Mumbai), soon after the end of the First World War.
[4] Another milestone of her career was Kishore Sahu's Sindoor (1947), which became quite controversial at the time of its release because it dealt with the topic of remarriage of Hindu widows.
[6][7][2][8] Bano married director and producer Anwar Kamal Pasha with whom she had worked in the movie Do Ansoo.