Sheikh Mukhtar was the son of Chaudhry Ashfaq Ahmed, who was a railway police inspector and was born in Karachi, British India; now Pakistan.
Chaudhary Ashfaq Ahmed intentionally got transferred and migrated to Delhi.
[1] He had spent his childhood years in Choodi Waalan Gali (near Jama Mosque, Delhi) and received education at an Anglo-Arabic school, Ajmeri Gate, Delhi.
His father wanted his son to join the Police or Army, but Sheikh Mukhtar was keenly interested in theatre.
He produced the film Noor Jehan (1967), in which he played the role of Sher Afghan Quli Khan, the first husband of Queen Nur Jahan.