 He worked in 30 films during his stay in India including "Mehndi", "Pak Daman" (1956) and "Jung", before migrating to Pakistan in 1962, on the insistence of director Akbar Ali Akku and actor/director Iqbal Yusuf, son of Adeeb's close friend, director S.M.Yusuf.He settled in Karachi and later moved on to Lahore in search of roles which kept pouring in from the 1960s until his very last film – Syed Noor's super-hit Majajan (2006).