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Saturday, November 6th, 2010 by admin

Lata Mangeshkar – Statistics with Lyricists

____________________ Back to Legends – Lata Mangeshkar ____________________ The following table lists Lata’s collaboration with Lyricists (1945 – 1992) in Hindi Movies. Songs in regional languages and non-film Hindi-Urdu songs are excluded. The list is arranged as follows – Name of the Lyricist, total number of songs of Lata with that lyricist, total number of ...

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Saturday, October 30th, 2010 by admin

Shailendra

While the constant composition of songs based on the fragile conundrums of love reduced most lyricists to retail merchants of words, Shailendra’s songs always dazzled with their lyrical lustre. In more than 170 films, he wrote warm souled poetry. Like the straight-from-the-heart `Aaja re pardesi … main toh kab se khadi is paar’, Shailendra’s songs ...

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Saturday, October 30th, 2010 by admin

Kaifi Azmi

Amongst the greatest Urdu poets of the 20th century, Kaifi Azmi also penned lyrics and scripts for some of Hindi cinema’s masterworks. His cinematic work, though not voluminous, is regarded as timeless for its touching simplicity, eternal optimism, and lyrical grace. Azmi was born Athar Husain Rizvi in Mijwan, a village in the Azamgarh district ...

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Sunday, July 4th, 2010 by admin

Pradeep

Best remembered for his inspirational and patriotic songs, lyricist Kavi Pradeep, as he was commonly known, wrote over 1,500 songs for films. He was born Ramchandra Narayanji Dwivedi in Badnagar, Madhya Pradesh. A graduate from Lucknow University, Pradeep aimed to be a schoolteacher rather than a professional poet. However, he was discovered by Himansu Rai ...

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