Sahir Ludhianvi - The People's Poet

Akshay Manwani

Dec 2013 · Sold by HarperCollins

About this ebook

Sahir 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.

Ratings and reviews

The book has been really well written by the efficient writer about the life story of Sahir Ludhianvi- ji. Beautiful and informative. Thousands of respects for the author Akshay sir and Ludhianviji as well.

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About the author

Akshay Manwani's first book, Sahir Ludhianvi: The People's Poet, was critically acclaimed and has been a bestseller. He writes on Indian cinema and popular culture for a variety of publications such as the Caravan, The Indian Quarterly, Scroll.in, Mint, Business Standard and Mumbai Mirror.