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LYRICS:
wohi aablay hain wohi jalan koi soz e dil mein kami nahi
jo laga ke aag gaye they tum woh lagi hui hai bujhi nahi
Shakeel Badayuni was born in Badayun, Uttar Pradesh.
His father, Mohammed Jamaal Ahmed Sokhta Qadiri,
wanted him to have a good career, thus he arranged Arabic,
Urdu, Persian, and Hindi tuition for Shakeel at home.
His inclination towards poetry was not hereditary like other
shayars. One of his distant relatives, Zia-ul-Qadiri Badayuni,
was a religious shayar. Shakeel was influenced by him and
the contemporary environment of Badayun led him to poetry.
When he joined Aligarh Muslim University in 1936, he started
participating in inter-college, inter-university mushairas and won
frequently. In 1940, he married Salma, who was his distant relative
and had been living in a common house with him since childhood,
however, the purdah system was vogue in their family and they
were not close. After completing his BA, he moved to Delhi as a
supply officer, but continued participating in mushairas, earning
fame nationwide. Those were the days of shayars who wrote
about the downtrodden sections of society, their upliftment,
the betterment of society and all. But Shakeel had an altogether
different taste – his poetry was romantic and close to the heart.
Shakeel used to say.
During Aligarh days, Shakeel Badauni started getting lessons of
Urdu poetry from Hakim Abdul Waheed 'Ashk' Bijnori.
Career :
Shakeel moved to Bombay in 1944, to write songs for films. He met
film producer, A.R. Kardar and music composer, Naushad Ali, who
asked him to sum up his poetic skills in one line. Shakeel wrote,
Hum Dard Ka Afsana Duniya Ko Suna Denge, Har Dil Main Mohabbat
Ki Ek Aag Laga Daingay. Naushad immediately retained him for
Kardar's film, Dard (1947). The songs of Dard proved to be very
successful, especially Uma Devi (Tun Tun)'s Afsana Likh Rahi Hoon.
Only a few are so lucky that they attain success in their first film,
but Shakeel deserved success which started with Dard and
continued on over the years.
Together, he and Naushad became one of the most sought after composer/lyricist duos in the industry. Among the scores they
churned out together, are those of Deedar (1951), Baiju Bawra (1952),
Mother India (1957), and Mughal-e-Azam (1960), that stand out.
Other films they scored together include Dulari (1949), Shabab (1954),
Ganga Jamuna (1961), and Mere Mehboob (1963).
Although Shakeel Badayuni worked most extensively with Naushad, he also
collaborated with Ravi and Hemant Kumar as well. His lyrics for the
song Husnwale Tera Jawab Nahin and Ravi's music score both won
Filmfare Awards for the hit film Gharana. His other notable film with
Ravi is Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960), while Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962)
is his biggest hit with Hemant Kumar. The title song from
Chaudhvin Ka Chand, rendered by Mohammed Rafi, won Badayuni the
Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist in 1961.
Shakeel penned numbers for around 89 films. In addition, he wrote many popular ghazals sung by Begum Akhtar, and which are still sung by vocalists like Pankaj Udhas and others.
The Indian government had honoured him with the title Geet Kar-e-Azam.
Association with Naushad
Shakeel shared a close friendship with Naushad, Ravi and Naushad's
former assistant, Ghulam Mohammed, with whom he enjoyed his life to
the fullest. Naushad used Shakeel as the lyricist for his tunes for most
of his films for a period of 24 years. Baiju Bawra, which was a milestone
in both of their careers, was supposed to go to Kavi Pradeep. Vijay Bhatt,
the director of the movie was insistent of using Kavi Pradeep as lyricist,
since the film was supposed to have many devotional songs. Naushad
requested Vijay Bhatt to hear the lyrics written by Shakeel. Vijay Bhatt
agreed, and the rest was history.
When Shakeel Badayuni was diagnosed with TB, he was put up in a
sanitorium in Panchgani for treatment. Naushad knowing that his
financial condition was not well, took 3 films to him, getting the lyrcis
written in the sanatorium, and got him a payment of nearly 10 times
more than his normal fees.
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