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Javed Akhtar in Dec 2014. Javed Akhtar was born in 1947 in Gwalior. [8] His father Jan Nisar Akhtar was a Bollywood film songwriter and Urdu poet. [9] His paternal grandfather Muztar Khairabadi was a poet as was his grandfather's elder brother, Bismil Khairabadi, while his great great grandfather, Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi, was a religious scholar of Islam who declared the Indian Rebellion of 1857 ...
He spent his life in Khairabad, Gwalior, and Rampur. He received the titles Eitbar-ul-Mulk, and Iftikhar-ul-Shaura. [4] He died in 1927 in Gwalior, and is buried there. [4] He was the father of poet and lyricist Jan Nisar Akhtar and grandfather of Javed Akhtar and Salman Akhtar.
Sahir's life has been chronicled by Sabir Dutt [26] and by Chander Verma and Dr. Salman Abid in "Main Sahir Hoon" [10] Sahir Ludhianvi: the People's Poet by Akshay Manwani [27] The book 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 ...
Like most of the Urdu poets, Azmi began as a ghazal writer, cramming his poetry with the repeated themes of love and romance in a style that was replete with clichés and metaphors. However, his association with the Progressive Writers' Movement and Communist Party made him embark on the path of socially conscious poetry.
Javed Akhtar was born on 17 January 1945. Early influences on Akhtar included Urdu novels by Pakistani author Ibn-e-Safi, such as the Jasoosi Dunya and Imran series of detective novels, as well as films like the Dilip Kumar starrers Arzoo (1950) and Aan (1952), Bimal Roy's Do Bigha Zameen (1953), Shree 420 (1955) directed by Raj Kapoor and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, and Mehboob Khan's ...
A. Imran Abbas; Waseem Abbas; Hamza Ali Abbasi; Shamoon Abbasi; Adeeb; Syed Mohammad Ahmed; Javed Akhtar; Masood Akhtar (actor) Moin Akhter; Khawaja Akmal; Mehboob Alam (actor)
Asrar-ul-Haq (19 October 1911 to 5 December 1955), better known as Majaz Lakhnawi, was an Indian Urdu poet. He is known for his romantic and revolutionary poetry. He composed ghazals and nazms in Urdu. He was the maternal uncle of poet and screenplay writer Javed Akhtar and Indian-American psychoanalyst Salman Akhtar. [1]
Jan Nisar Akhtar (18 February 1914 – 19 August 1976) was an Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, and a part of the Progressive Writers' Movement, who was also a lyricist for Bollywood. [ 1 ] He was the son of Muztar Khairabadi and great grandson of Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi , who were both Urdu poets.