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Kaifi and Shabana

Kaifi Azmi (Urdu: کیفی اعظمی) (1919 - May 10, 2002) was an Urdu and Hindi lyricist, poet and songwriter.

At age eleven, Kaifi Azmi wrote his first ghazal "Itna To Zindagi Mein Kisi Ki Khalal Pade" and somehow managed to get himself invited to a mushaira and over there, he recited a ghazal, rather a couplet of the ghazal which was very much appreciated by the president of the mushaira, Mani Jaisi, but most of the people, including his father, thought he recited his elder brother's ghazal. When his elder brother denied it, his father and his clerk decided to test his poetic talent. They gave him one of the lines of a couplet and asked him to write a ghazal in the same meter and rhyme. Azmi accepted the challenge and completed a ghazal. This particular ghazal was to become a rage in undivided India and it was immortalized as it was sung by legendary ghazal singer, Begum Akhtar.

Kaifi's Poetry

Kaifi’s first collection of poems, Jhankar was published in 1943. His important works including anthologies of poetry were Aakhir-e-Shab, Sarmaya, Awaara Sajde, Kaifiyaat, Nai Gulistan, an anthology of articles he wrote for Urdu Blitz, Meri Awaaz Suno, a selection of his film lyrics, and the script of Heer Ranjha in Devanagari.

His best known poems are Aurat, Makaan,Daaera,Saanp, and Bahuroopni. " Kar chale hum fida jan-o-tan sathion".

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