born on october 12, 1938, in the city of delhi, nida fazli (muqtida hasan nida fazli) did his schooling from gwalior. his father was an urdu poet himself. during the partition of india his parents migrated to pakistan, but young nida fazli decided to stay in india. he did his post graduation at gwalior college in 1954. he wrote some critical essays on the poetry of the contemporary poets of the sixties in his book mulaqatein. it ired many a poet including sahir ludhianvi, ali sardar jafri and kaifi azmi. as a result, he was boycotted in the some poetic sessions.
the course of his career took a beautiful turn when kamal amrohi, a filmmaker, approached him. jan nisar akhtar who was appointed as a lyricist of the film razia sultan, died untimely. there were two more songs to be written, and he did that so gracefully that he started getting adulated by one and all of the industry. it was the beginning of his successful career when he started receiving increasing offers to write lyrics for hindi films. his celebrated lyrics were also used in tum to aise na the, is raat ki subah nahin and gudiya.
[information courtesy : wikipedia]
one of my favourite favourite ghazals by nida fazli featured in the movie ‘ahista ahista’ – “kabhi kisi ko mukammal jahaan nahin miltaa”
tanhaa tanhaa ham ro le.nge mahafil mahafil gaaye.nge
jab tak aa.Nsuu paas rahe.nge tab tak giit sunaaye.nge
tum jo socho vo tum jaano ham to apanii kahate hai.n
der na karanaa ghar jaane me.n varanaa ghar kho jaaye.nge
bachcho.n ke chhoTe haatho.n ko chaa.Nd sitaare chhuune do
chaar kitaabe.n pa.Dh kar vo bhii ham jaise ho jaaye.nge
kin raaho.n se duur hai ma.nzil kaun saa rastaa aasaa.N hai
ham jab thak kar ruk jaaye.nge auro.n ko samajhaaye.nge
achchhii suurat vaale saare patthar-dil ho mumkin hai
ham to us din raa_e de.nge jis din dhokaa khaaye.nge
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