Career
Haider broke into films with the father-son duo Roshan Lal Shorey and Roop Kumar Shorey, and A.R. Kardar gave him the opportunity to compose music for the 1935 film, Swarg Ki Seerhi. But he got his first break with D.M. Pancholi's Punjabi film, Gul-E-Bakavali (1939) starring Noor Jehan. This was followed by Yamla Jat (1940). His first hit came with Khazanchi in 1941, which caused a revolution in the music industry. Khandan (1942), the first film of Noor Jehan as lead actress, was also a hit and established him as a top composer. Poonji (1943) was also successful. Then Haider moved to Bombay and composed music for many films including Humayun (1945) and Majboor (1948), the first major break of Lata Mangeshkar in Hindi films. Shaheed (1948) and Kaneez (1949) are his other big hits.
After partition, he returned to Lahore and his first Pakistani film was Shahida (1949). He composed music for many other films like Beqarar (1950), Akeli (1951) and Bheegi Palken (1952) but the films flopped. He died just a few days after the release of Gulnar (1953).
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