A. Hameed (born Shaikh Abdul Hameed; 1924 â 20 May 1991) was a Pakistani film score composer and music director.
He started his career in Bombay cinema (in modern-day Bollywood) and later worked in Lollywood, the Pakistan film industry originally based in Lahore. The first Pakistani film he worked on as a director was Anjaam (1957). However, he earned his recognition in Pakistani film industry as a music composer.
Shaikh Abdul Hameed was born in 1924 in Amritsar, British India (now India). He initially worked in Hindi film industry with the veteran music composer Ghulam Haider as a pianist, and subsequently composed music in Pakistan for the films Anjaam (1957) and Bharosa (1958).
His family later migrated to Pakistan following the partition of India in 1947 and worked in Pakistani films as a composer. His first hit film song that became very popular was in Raat Ke Rahi (1960). The same year, the widely popular film Saheli gained him a lot of recognition as a music composer. Another popular film Aulad (1962) followed with notable songs, "Naam le le ke tera hum to jiye jaen ge" (Naseem Begum), and Tum mile pyar mila ab koi armaan nahin (Naseem Begum - Munir Hussain). His next musical creation was film Tauba (1964). It made a great impact with its melodious tracks. Munir Hussain and Saleem Raza's Qawwali, "Na milta gar ye tauba ka sahaara hum kahaan jaate" and Noor Jehan's song "O re sanam dil yeh kaise bataye" became very popular.
A. Hameed died in Rawalpindi, Pakistan on 20 May 1991.