 Even after partition, their bond of friendship endured.One of his most famous movies was "Bazaar", released in 1949, in which he starred with Nigar Sultana.He married a Muslim, Mumtaz Qureshi (nickname "Taji"), with whom he had a daughter, Pakistani TV actress Sahira Kazmi, married to actor Rahat Kazmi, and a son named Shakir (born two months after his death), a psychiatrist based in UK.