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===Personal life===
He belongs to the family of great freedom fighters, [[Mohammad Ali Jouhar]] and his brother [[Maulana Shaukat Ali]] well known as the Ali brothers. His great grandfather Hafiz Ahmed Ali Shauq was a historian and had written a number of books, he was the first librarian of Shahi Qutub Khana now known as [[Raza Library]]. His father ShujatShujaat Ali, had served in the same library as an assistant librarian for a long time.
 
His early education was in [[Rampur Samastipur|Rampur]]’s Hamid High School and Jaame-ul-uloom, Furqaniah. He passed his high school in English in [[Aligarh Muslim University]].
At a very early age of 17, he migrated to Bombay, now Mumbai and under the able guidance of his uncle Maulana Zahid Shaukat Ali started his career as a journalist in his Urdu Newspaper ‘Khilafat Daily’; he then proceeded to work in newspapers like ‘Inquilaab’ and ‘[[Hindustan]]’ and soon started his own newspaper called the ‘Urdu Reporter’
 
He started his career in films as a Dialoguedialogue writer and assistant Special Assistant Directordirector to Mr [[Satyajit Ray]] in ‘[[Shatranj Ke KhiladiKhilailri (film)|Shatranj Ke KhiladiKhilari]]’. & heHe also assisted [[James Ivory (director)|James Ivory]] as his chief Assistantassistant Directordirector.
 
SiddiquiSiddiqi has four children: Murad, Lubna, Sameer, and Zeba. [[Lubna Salim]], and [[Sameer Siddiqui]] are both involved in the film and theatre arena. Lubna is a stage actor-singer and married to theatre and television director Salim Arif. Murad has a production company and ishas a Director of many ofdirected TV Programs, whileprogrammes. Sameer has followed in his father's footsteps, and writes for Hindi films and TV soaps.
 
==Urdu literature==