Urdu poet Sahir Ludhianvi, who had just begun writing lyrics for Hindi films, was taken aback when he found his ghazal, with ...
Sahir Ludhianvi, one of the speakers, got on stage and raised an important question: when Urdu was being mistreated as the language of the enemy, why was the government felicitating a poet of the ...
I was familiar with Sahir Ludhianvi as a poet and beyond. In 2017, I was invited to a Jashn-e-Rekhta programme where I was to speak about the lives of the poets involved in the Progressive Writers ...
The highlight of the evening was the story of Sahir Ludhianvi and Amrita Pritam, narrated artfully by Acharjya and Sujoy ...
The author examines the influence of power, charisma, and sanity/insanity in the making of an autocrat and believes so long ...
His lyrical exploits in Hindi films spanned over half a century, starting from K.L. Saigal to the Khan trio, but were versati ...
When his younger brother and collaborator Vijay 'Goldie' Anand wanted to work on suspense thrillers, after the ambivalent ...
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He wrote ‘Jab dil hi toot gaya’ for ‘Shahjehan’, which singer KL Saigal liked so much that he wanted it to be played at his ...
Dev Anand was among the greatest cine-stars of Hindi cinema, leaving behind millions of admirers when he passed away in 2011.
As we celebrate International Women’s Day, here are five Sahir songs that express the sad condition of the exploited woman, the tormented mother and the much-abused courtesan. Advisory Alert ...