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Jaan Nisar Akhtar. Shakhs Aur Shair. 1987. Jan Nisar Akhtar. Urdu Shairon Ka Intikhabi Silsila. 1957. जां निसार अख़्तर :हयात-ओ ...
Jan Nisar Akhtar. He was the son of Muztar Khairabadi and great grandson of Fazl-e-Haq Khairabadi his career spanned four decades during which he worked with music composers including C. Ramchandra, O.P. Nayyar, Datta Naik also credited as N. Datta and Khayyam and wrote 151 songs. Notable among them were songs from his breakthrough film, AR ...
Feb 1, 2016 · That night’s event celebrated a series of letters that Safia Akhtar, an Urdu scholar, wrote to her husband, Jan Nisar Akhtar, himself an Urdu scholar, poet and Bollywood lyricist. To kick off the evening, Sharad read out a letter from April 1951, in which Safia praised the blossoming literary abilities of her six-year-old son Javed—now a famous poet and Bollywood lyricist.
Feb 18, 2023 · Like Kaifi Azmi, a contemporary, Jan Nisar Akhtar’s lyrical output wasn’t as much as some of his other peers like Sahir Ludhianvi or Majrooh Sultanpuri – approximately 310 or so songs in a 4-decade-long career. Many of his songs were written for obscure films, resulting in them not being as popular or even as well-known.
Feb 18, 2023 · In such an age, it was but natural that the film industry turned to poets who were not only fluent in word play in Hindi and Urdu, but also well-steeped in the idiom and cadence of image-rich verse. One such poet-lyricist was Jan Nisar Akhtar. He was born Syed Jan Nisar Hussain Rizvi on 18 February 1914 in a family of writers and Islamic scholars.
Dec 31, 2019 · Jan Nisar Akhtar was born a little more than two years before my favourite Shakeel, on the 18th Feb 1914 in Gwalior. Unlike Shakeel, who was the first to venture into poetry (only a distant uncle was a poet), Jan Nisar Akhtar’s father Muztar Khairabadi was poet as was his father’s elder brother, Bismil Khairabadi.
Jan Nisar Akhtar (Urdu: جان نثار اختر) was an important 20th century Indian poet of Urdu ghazals and nazms, and a part of the Progressive Writers' Movement, who was also a lyricist for Bollywood.
