Kaifi Azmi Ghazals, Shayari, P

Kaifi Azmi Ghazals, Shayari, Poems | कैफ़ी आज़मी कैफ़ी आज़मी की मशहूर गीत, गजल, कविता और शायरी

Kaifi Azmi Hindi, Ghazal Poetry & ghazal. One of prominent progressive poets with popular appeal. Also film lyricist famous for his lyrics in films like Heer Ranjha, Kaghaz ke Phool etc.

Urdu has a magical feeling attached to it. The soulful and refined language makes every verse appealing and enduring. One literary genius to write in this delicate language was Kaifi Azmi saheb, who expressed feelings of a lovelorn heart, advocated for a progressive society, and rebelled against the societal orthodoxies through his words. He was only 11-year-old when he penned his first ghazal. No wonder that he went on to rule a million hearts with his effortless and perfect phrases.

The renowned Urdu poet also contributed to Bollywood and gave us some timeless and evergreen lyrical gems, like 'Tum itna kyun muskura rahe ho'. He was a radical poet who wrote on a range of subjects, and his poems and ghazals are going to be remembered for a long time to come.

Kaifi Azmi, original name Syed Athar Hussain Rizvi, (born c. 1919, Mizwan, Azamgarh, United Provinces, British India [now Uttar Pradesh, India]—died May 10, 2002, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India), one of the most renowned Indian poets of the 20th century, who sought to inspire social change through his passionate Urdu-language verse. He was also a noted lyricist for some of Bollywood’s best-known films. His cinematic work, though not extensive, is regarded as timeless for its touching simplicity, eternal optimism, and lyrical grace.

Though Azmi belonged to a landed family, he was drawn, from an early age, to communism. His family wanted him to become a cleric, and he was enrolled in a seminary. However, he gave up formal education in the wake of the Quit India movement (in which Mohandas Gandhi urged the British to “quit [leave] India”) and joined the Communist Party of India.

Azmi moved to Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1943 to work as a trade unionist and write for the party’s Urdu papers, including Qaumi Jung (“People’s War”). He also published his first volume of poetry, Jhankar, that year. During this period he became closely associated with the Progressive Writers Association and the Indian Peoples’ Theatre Association, and he even acted in plays with other leftists such as the actor Balraj Sahni (1913–73).