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Sahir Ludhianvi was an Indian poet and lyricist. He wrote in Hindi and Urdu languages. Sahir influenced the music of Bollywood. His poems exalted expression of affection or propelled social points. He is likely one of the most celebrated poets and lyricists of India.

Wiki/Biography

Sahir Ludhianvi was born as ‘Abdul Hayee’ on Tuesday, 8 March 1921 (age 59 years on the time of his dying) in a purple sandstone haveli in Karimpura, Ludhiana, Punjab, British India. His zodiac signal was Pisces. He did his education from Khalsa Excessive College in Ludhiana. He realized Urdu and Parsi from Maulana Faryaz Haryanvi. He attended S.C.D. Authorities Faculty, Ludhiana.

Reportedly, he was expelled from faculty for speaking with a woman named Ishar Kaur within the faculty garden. Nonetheless, in keeping with Kewal Dheer, a famous poet, he was not expelled however was requested to depart. In line with one other story, he was in disagreement along with his precept ACC Hervey (British man), who was irked by his anti-British rule poetry. The auditorium of S.C.D. Authorities Faculty is known as after him.

He moved to Lahore in 1943, the place he joined Dayal Singh Faculty. There, he was elected because the President of the Pupil Federation. In 1949, after Partition of India, he fled from Lahore, Pakistan to Delhi, India because the Authorities of Pakistan had issued an arrest warrant towards Sahir for making controversial statements, which promoted communism. After residing in Delhi for 8 months, he moved to Bombay (now, Mumbai). He later moved to Andheri suburb of Mumbai, the place his neighbours had been Gulzar, a poet and lyricist and Krishan Chander, an Urdu litterateur.

Household, Caste & Spouse

Sahir Ludhianvi was born right into a Muslim Household. His father, Fazal Mohammed was a landlord.

Sahir Ludhinvi’s Father

His mom’s title is Sardar Begum.

Sahir Ludhianvi’s Mom

He was in a relationship with Amrita Pritam (poet) and Sudha Malhotra (actress & singer).

Amrita Pritam

Sudha Malhotra

Profession

Whereas Sahir was residing in Lahore, he revealed his first work in Urdu, titled “Talkhiyaan (Bitterness) in 1945.” Talkhiyan was accomplished in 1943 however took him two years to discover a writer for the ebook.

Sahir Ludhianvi’s Talkhiyaan

He then began working as an editor of the well-known magazines like Adab-e-Lateef, Shahkaar, Prithlari, and Savera and have become a member of the ‘Progressive Author’s Affiliation.’ He made his debut in Bollywood with 4 songs from the movie “Azadi Ki Raah Par (1949).”

Nonetheless, the movie and its songs went unnoticed. Sahir earned recognition after “Naujawaan (1951),” with music by S. D. Burman. His first main success was with the movie “Baazi (1951).” Sahir and S. D. Burman labored collectively till “Pyaasa (1957),” and later, parted methods attributable to contractual and creative variations.

Sahir Ludhianvi With S. D. Burman

He has labored with many famous composers akin to Ravi, Roshan, Mohammed Zahur Khayyam, Datta Naik, Shankar-Jaikishan, and Laxmikant-Pyarelal. He has written songs for a number of hit films together with Aa Gale Lag Jaa (1973), Kabhi Kabhi (1976), Laila Majnu (1976), Naya Daur (1957), Neelkamal (1968), Sadhana (1958), The Burning Practice (1980), Trishul (1978), and Waqt (1965). He has penned down the well-known lyrics for the songs ‘Tu Hindu Banega Na Musalman,’ ‘Allah Tero Naam,’ ‘Fundamental Pal Do Pal Ka Shayar Hoon,’ ‘Kabhi Kabhie Mere Dil Mein,’ and ‘Abhi Na Jaao Chhod Kar.’

Controversies

• He was all the time in a rift with composers as a result of he stored on insisting the composers that they need to adapt their tunes to his lyrics and never vice versa.

• He and S. D. Burman stopped working collectively after the movie “Pyaasa (1957)” as each of them took the credit score for the songs they created collectively. Burman stated that it was his music that the tune was hit and Sahir stated that it was his lyrics that the tune went hit. Thus, they each grew aside and ultimately, stopped making music collectively.

• Sahir insisted on being paid with a rupee greater than Lata Mangeshkar, which created a rift between each of them.
  

  Sahir Ludhianvi With Lata Mangeshkar

• He imposed a diktat to AIR and HMV to incorporate the names of lyricist of their programmes and albums.

Awards & Honours

• On 8 March 2013, the 92nd anniversary of his delivery, a commemorative stamp was issued in his honour
  

  Sahir Ludhianvi Postal Stamp

Filmfare Awards

• Finest Lyricist for the tune ‘Jo Wada Kiya’ from the movie “Taj Mahal” in 1964

• Finest Lyricist for the tune ‘Kabhi Kabhie Mere Dil Mein’ from the movie “Kabhi Kabhie” in 1977

Signature

Sahir Ludhianvi’s Signature

Loss of life

Sahir Ludhianvi died on 25 October 1980 attributable to sudden cardiac arrest. He was buried within the Juhu Muslim Cementary, Mumbai. In 2010, his tomb was demolished to create space for the brand new interments.

Sahir Ludhianvi Mendacity Lifeless

Details

• Sahir cherished to learn and journey.

• Sahir Ludhianvi was an atheist.

• When Sahir was 13, regardless of being married to his mom Sardar Begum, his father married one other girl. After Fazal’s second marriage, his spouse Sardar Begum divorced him. His father filed a case towards his mom to realize custody of Sahir however he misplaced. When this occurred, he confronted home and monetary disaster, which affected him vastly.

• His mom and his maternal uncle took care of his schooling.

• He began writing when he was nonetheless at school. He not solely received accolades from his friends but in addition from his seniors.

• Throughout his struggling days, he was pressured to promote his mom’s gold bangles to pay electrical energy and water payments. To make his ends meet, he even rewrote Krishna Chander’s incomprehensible handwriting from his scripts and earned a sum of Rs. 150.

• Whereas Sahir was a pupil within the S.C.D. Authorities Faculty, he was well-known for his ‘Ghazals’ and ‘Nazms.’
  

  Sahir Ludhianvi In His Faculty Picture

• He later adopted the nom de plume, Sahir Ludhianvi, which suggests ‘a wizard from Ludhiana.’

• In 1944, he met Amrita Pritam for the primary time at a mushaira in Lahore. Amrita was married at the moment. She was impressed by Sahir’s method of reciting his couplets and have become an enormous fan of him.
  

  Sahir Ludhianvi And Amrita Pritam

• Amrita left her husband for Sahir. She used to name him “Mera Shayar”, “Mera Mehboob”, “Mera Khuda,” and “Mera Devta”. They used to alternate letters and had met only some occasions in secrecy. Amrita, in her autobiography, “Rasidi Ticket,” described their assembly as ‘silent ones with only some phrases.’ In line with Amrita, they might sit in silence and stare upon one another whereas Sahir smoked a cigarette. After he had left, Amrita would accumulate the stubs left by him and smoked them. Speaking about it, she said-
  

  Once I would maintain one in every of these cigarettes between my fingers, I’d really feel as if I used to be touching his arms. That is how I took to smoking. Smoking gave me the sensation that he was near me. He appeared, every time, like a genie within the smoke emanating from the cigarette.”

• In her autobiography, she gave a glimpse of Sahir’s aspect of the story. She writes-
  

  Sahir additionally advised me, a lot later in life, “When each of us had been in Lahore, I’d usually come near your home and stand on the nook the place I’d generally purchase a paan, or gentle a cigarette or maintain a glass of soda in my hand. I’d stand there for hours collectively watching that window of your home which opened in direction of the road.”

  

• Reportedly, Sahir and Amrita ended their relationship after Sahir fell in love with Sudha Malhotra. Nonetheless, he by no means bought married to anybody. The filmmaker, Vinay Shukla, believed that the rationale for Sahir to be single was his obsession along with his mom and Amrita was the one girl to obtain that sort of affection from Sahir. As soon as, Sahir advised his mother-
  

  Woh Amrita Pritam thi. Woh aapki bahu ban sakti thi. (That’s Amrita Pritam. She may have been your daughter-in-law).”

• Sahir’s writings had been totally different from his contemporaries as he didn’t glorify ‘Khuda’ (God), ‘Husn’ (an individual’s magnificence), and ‘Jaam’ (wine). Not like different writers, his writings had been based mostly on the values of the society, the futility of wars and politics, and the domination of consumerism on love.

• His writing pertains to youth pissed off by unemployment, ladies pressured to promote her physique, a soldier gone to combat the warfare for another person, a farmer crushed by debt, and so forth. This was the rationale that he was usually thought-about as ‘Bard for the Underdog.’

• It’s believed that his poetry incorporates ‘Faizan High quality.’ Like, Faiz Ahmad Faiz, he gave the mental component to Urdu poetry. He would choose on the self-appointed custodian of faith, the self-serving politician, the exploitative capitalist, and the war-mongering super-powers.

• Even Jawaharlal Nehru was moved by his lyrics used within the movie Pyaasa, which reads-
  “ये कूचे, ये नीलामघर दिलकशी के,
  ये लुटते हुए कारवां ज़िंदगी के,
  कहाँ है कहाँ है मुहाफ़िज़ खुदी के?
  जिन्हें नाज़ है हिंद पर,वो कहाँ हैं?”

• Sahir was a agency critic of Taj Mahal. He expresses it by way of his lyrics-
  “मेरे महबूब कहीं और मिला कर मुझसे,
  बज़्म- ए-शाही में ग़रीबों का गुज़र क्या माने
  सबत जिन राहों पर है सतबते शाही के निशां
  उसपे उल्फत भरी रूहों का गुज़र क्या माने?”
  Taj Mahal by Sahir can be one in every of his most remembered poems of all occasions.

• Sahir wrote his legacy as-
  “कल और आयेंगे नगमो की खिलती कलियाँ चुनने वाले,
  मुझसे बेहतर कहनेवाले,
  तुमसे बेहतर सुननेवाले;
  कल कोई उनको याद करे,
  क्यूँ कोई मुझको याद करे?
  मसरूफ ज़माना मेरे लिए क्यूँ वक़्त अपना बर्बाद करे?”

• The longest poem that he ever wrote is “Parchaiyaan.”
  

  Sahir Ludhianvi’s Parchaiyaan

• In 1970, Sahir bought a bungalow inbuilt Bombay and named it ‘Parchaiyaan’ (shadows). He lived there till his dying.
  

  Sahir Ludhianvi’s Residence-Pachaiyaan

• Sahir was good associates with Yash Chopra (filmmaker), Mahendra Kapoor (playback singer), and Datta Naik (music composer).
  

  Sahir Ludhianvi With Yash Chopra, Mahendra Kapoor, and Dutta Naik

• Other than his business associates, his different associates had been Shiv Kumar, Bhalla, and Samman Gupta.
  

  Sahir Ludhianvi With His Mates Shiv Kumar, Bhalla, And Samman Gupta

• One among his associates Amar Verma, who’s a writer needed to publish Sahir’s writings. When Amar took Sahir’s permission for a similar, Sahir replied that many publishers had revealed his ebook ‘Talkhiyan’ and even he may publish it. After which, Amar advised Sahir that he needed to publish some new work by him. Then Sahir provided him to publish his new assortment of movie songs. They made a deal that 1000 books could be revealed and Sahir would get a royalty of 6.25%. For the division of 1000 books, his paycheck was of Rs. 62.50. Amar was ashamed to present him the quantity because it was too much less. To this, Sahir replied that it was not only a small quantity, because it was the primary royalty of his life.
  

  Sahir Ludhiavi’s Buddy- Amar Verma

• Sahir Ludhianvi wished his work to be revealed in English, which additionally his final want. He contacted Amar Verma for this. Sadly, Sahir died earlier than that would have occurred. After his dying, Amar Verma employed an individual from Pakistan to translate his Urdu work to English.

• Sahir Ludhianvi felt hesitant to face the gang. Every time he used to go for his talks or occasions, he would freeze on the stage.

• In line with Sahir’s sister, Sahir was all the time confused. Earlier than going out he would spend hours deciding about what he ought to recite or not recite. Sahir would even have problem in deciding his apparel for the day earlier than going out for work or occasions.
  

  Sahir Ludhianvi’s Garments

• Sahir’s life has been recorded in lots of works together with the ebook “Fundamental Sahir Hoon” by Sabir Dutt, Chander Verma and Dr Salman Abid, “Sahir Ludhianvi: The Folks’s Poet” by Akshay Manwani, and  Sahir (a stage play) by Danish Iqbal.
  

• In line with the stories of BBC, when Sahir and Chander had been going to Ludhiana, their automotive bought hijacked by Maan Singh, the decoit of Madhya Pradesh. At the moment, Sahir advised Maan Singh that he had written the lyrics of all of the songs of the movie “Mujhe Jeene Do (1963),” a movie based mostly of the lifetime of the decoits, after which, Singh launched the duo with nice respect.

• Reportedly, the movie ‘Pyaasa’ and ‘Kabhi Kabhie’ are based mostly on the lifetime of Sahir Ludhianvi.

• He was an intense drinker and smoker.

• Gulistan-e-Sahir, a botanical backyard at S. C. D. Authorities Faculty was created by late Urdu poet Bhupinder Aziz Parihar, a lecturer on the faculty. It’s stated that when the Backyard was created, a floriculturist from Punjab Agricultural College (PAU), developed a particular number of flower, which was named after ‘Sahir.’
  

  Gulistan-e-Sahir