Sahir Ludhianvi - The People's PoetSahir Ludhianvi is probably the only songwriter in Hindi films whose poetry was accepted in its purest form and incorporated as a film song. So great was his stature as an Urdu poet that he never had to mould his poetry to suit the demands of film songwriting; instead, producers and composers adapted their requirements to his poetry. His songs in films like Pyaasa, Naya Daur and Phir Subah Hogi have attained the status of classics. This exhaustive biography traces the poet's rich life, from his troubled childhood and his equally troubled love relationships, to his rise as one of the pre-eminent personalities of the Progressive Writers Movement and his journey as lyricist through the golden era of Hindi film music, the 1950s and 1960s. |
Contents
1701 | |
1707 | |
1708 | |
Alma Martyr | 1723 |
Of Poetry and Progressive Literature | 1738 |
Partition Woes | 1757 |
Bada Songwriter Banoonga | 1770 |
The Lyrical Platinum Standard | 1783 |
New Peaks New Associations | 1867 |
On His Own Terms | 1881 |
The Poet as a Peoples Conscience | 1898 |
A Man of Contradictions | 1924 |
A PoetLyricist Like No Other | 1936 |
Epilogue | 1948 |
Timeline | 1950 |
List of Film Songs Select Bibliography | 1952 |
Finding Love in the Shadow of Oedipus | 1800 |
The Chopras Come Calling | 1832 |
Good but Only Kabhi Kabhie | 1853 |
Index of Poems and Film Songs | |
Acknowledgements | |
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