self composed poetry writing and recitation on life of nehruji
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☘On his 99th birth anniversary, read how noted Hindi film lyricist and poet Majrooh Sultanpuri got arrested for reciting poetry against Jawaharlal Nehru at a meeting organised for mill workers in Mumbai and how his left leanings often got him in trouble.
☘October 1 is the birth anniversary of famed poet and lyricist Majrooh Sultanpuri.
☘“Majrooh” is an Urdu word which means wounded or injured.
☘Besides writing many popular songs for Bollywood in a career spanning half a century, Sultanpuri was a Leftist communist who read Marx and Lenin and was also jailed for two years in Mumbai for reciting poetry against Jawaharlal Nehru.
☘Just a year before his 100th birth anniversary, a national seminar on Majrooh Sultanpuri’s life and achievements has been organised in the Kalina Campus of Mumbai University on September 30 followed by a music show celebrating his greatest hits.
☘Sultanpuri was born in 1919 as Asrar ul Hasan Khan to a police officer who did not want English education for him.
☘He was sent to a madrasa where he completed a seven-year course of Dars-e-Nizami along with Arabic and Persian.
☘He studied Unani medicine
☘As luck would have it, his poetry recitation was much appreciated at a Mushaira in his hometown.
☘He became famous Urdu poet Jigar Moradabadi’s 'shagird' who brought him to Mumbai to write songs for Hindi films.
☘In 1945, he got his first break in A R Kardar’s “Shahjehan”.
☘To think that he was reluctant to join the film industry at first, only to write more than 3000 songs for about 700 films.
☘He was the first lyricist to receive the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1994, that too at the age of 75 after spending more than 50 years in the industry.
☘He was the only lyricist who wrote in all the styles right from a Qawwali, bhajan, mujra, cabaret to Ghazals and folk songs.
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