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Saeed Ahmed is a distinguished playwright, senior journalist and author based in Lahore. He has served as the editor of 'Daily Mashriq' and has been writing columns for media outlets such as 'Daily Aaj Kal' and 'Daily Pakistan'. He was part of the scriptwriting team for Nandita Das' film "Manto".

Besides a career in journalism, he has been penning drama serials for Pakistani TV channels since 1994. His critical appreciation of films includes a book on Dilip Kumar's contribution to Indian cinema. He is also well known for his political satire, including his popular lampooning of Pakistani General and dictator Zia-ul-Haq. He established Naya Zamana in 1988 as a groundbreaking socio-political literary magazine that introduced unorthodox new journalism deemed unconventional during that time.

Book on Dilip Kumar
The book is a critical appreciation of different departments of film through the author’s understanding of filmmaking. From Milan to Saudagar, Saeed Ahmed explored forty-one film stories providing an in-depth commentary on the screen plays, dialogues, music, and direction.

Spanning around six decades of the Indian cinema, the book embodies a sharp critique of the works by stalwart film directors like Amiya Chakravarty, Nitin Bose, Ramesh Sehgal, Kidar Sharma, Bimal Roy, B.R. Chopra, Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Subhash Ghai.

The author analysed the roles of lead female co-stars of Dilip Kumar such as Noor Jehan, Nargis, Meena Kumari, Madhubala, Kamini Koshal, Suchitra Sen, Vaijantimala.

The book also explicitly studies the acting craft of Dilip Kumar's exceptional co-stars: from Prithvi Raj Kapoor, Ashok Kumar, Raj Kapoor, Raj Kumar, Moti Laal, Praan to Manoj Kumar and Amitabh Bachan.

After reading the manuscript, Dilip Kumar penned down a letter to the author, saying:  'The writer's profound depiction of his body of work and the characters; his interest to simplicity and clarity while analyzing the stories; and how he has voiced the long acoustic intervals during the dialogues and painted them with color strokes, compelled him to watch his long forgotten movies all over again.

Drama Serials
He has written TV serials for the leading channels in Pakistan such as GEO, PTV, ARY Digital, HUM and PRIME TV. Released in the year 2000, his record-breaking drama serial, SHANAKHT, earned 5 Crore 36 Lakhs and created a new benchmark by earning 254 commercial minutes in all time history of Pakistani dramas. It also eventually received an official award from the government of Pakistan.

Manto film ban in Pakistan
Saeed Ahmed, a key consultant for "Manto", started a petition urging the Imran Khan government to allow the film's release in December, 2018. In collaboration with the Manto Memorial Society, the peaceful protests were held in Lahore, Karachi, Peshawar and Multan.