Tag: Lyricist
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Who Owns Urdu? Javed Akhtar, Religion, and the Fight for a Shared Language
ahut Samjhe the Hum Is Daur Ki Firqa Parasti Ko Zubaan Bhi Aaj Shaikh -o-Brahaman Hai Ham Nhi Samjhe” (Rashid Banarsi) Around 225 years ago, in the city of Calcutta (now Kolkata), the seeds of division between the Urdu and Hindi languages were sown with the establishment of Fort William College. The British colonial administration…
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Remembering Sahir Ludhianvi: A Lyrical Centenary
Sahir Ludhianvi was having a session with S.D.Burman and Chetan Anand for Funtoosh. Chetan Anand wanted a satirical song for a party sequence to be filmed on Dev Anand. Thinking for a while the lyricist penned the lines, Dene Wala Jab Bhi Deta. Both the composer and director liked the line and Sahir Ludhianvi completed the entire…