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Amrita Pritam at Heathrow Airport, London in 1971. In 1935, Amrita married Pritam Singh, son of a hosiery merchant of Lahore's Anarkali bazaar. They had two children together, a son and a daughter. She had an unrequited affection for poet Sahir Ludhianvi. The story of this love is depicted in her autobiography, Rasidi Ticket (Revenue Stamp).
Although the love story of Amrita and Sahir Ludhianvi was famous at that time. Both were open about their love towards each other. Sahir was a famous poet and lyricist in Hindi Cinema. He never lived with her. He was too busy in his professional and personal life. A new women singer Sudha Malhotra came into Sahir's life and Amrita was in disunion.
Sahir's life has been chronicled by Sabir Dutt [28] and by Chander Verma and Dr. Salman Abid in "Main Sahir Hoon" [9] Sahir Ludhianvi: the People's Poet by Akshay Manwani is the product of interviews and writings about Sahir by his friends such as Yash Chopra, Dev Anand, Javed Akhtar , Khayyam, Sudha Malhotra , Ravi Chopra and Ravi Sharma . [ 29 ]
It is also surmised that the story is based on the life of the film's lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi who had a failed affair with poet and writer Amrita Pritam. [ 10 ] Till the project was started in 1956, several changes were made in the original story in assistance with Abrar Alvi like originally the protagonist was to be a painter.
The title song of the film written by Sahir Ludhianvi was performed by Mukesh and Lata Mangeshkar. [1] [2] The song was recorded at Mehboob Studio of noted producer-director, Mehboob Khan, [3] and remains one of the finest creations of both its music director and lyricist, both of whom later won Filmfare Awards in their respective categories ...
The Progressive Writers' Association or the Progressive Writers' Movement of India or Anjuman Tarraqi Pasand Mussanafin-e-Hind (Urdu: انجمن ترقی پسند مصنفینِ ہند) or Akhil Bhartiya Pragatishil Lekhak Sangh (Hindi: अखिल भारतीय प्रगतिशील लेखक संघ) was a progressive literary movement in pre-partition British India.
Among his contemporaries were poets like Kaifi Azmi, Amrita Pritam, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Sahir Ludhianvi, Majaz Lucknawi, Tanvir Naqvi, Saifuddin Saif, Ahmad Faraz and Muhammad Hasan Askari. [6] In 1988, Qateel Shifai started work on his autobiography "Ghungroo Toot Gaye" with the assistance of his pupil, now a famous Urdu poet, Naeem Chishti.
Angarey or Angaaray (translated alternatively as "Embers" or "Burning Coals") is a collection of nine short stories and a one act play in Urdu by Sajjad Zaheer, Rashid Jahan, Mahmud-uz-Zafar and Ahmed Ali first published in 1932 and generally considered to have marked the beginning of the Progressive Writers' Movement in Indian literature.