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Remembering Sahir Ludhianvi
Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaye toh kya hai?’ ‘
Main pal do pal ka shayar hoon’, ‘
Chalo ek baar phir se ajnabi ban jayen hum dono’. However, I wonder if many will remember the lyricist on this day or mark the occasion in any meaningful manner, except for a small band of die-hard fans.
Part of a small clutch of highly talented lyricists like Majrooh Sultanpuri, Kaifi Azmi, Shailendra, Shakeel Badayuni and Rajendra Krishan, who ruled the Hindi film world in the 50s and 60s, the golden era of the Hindi film song, Sahir has written some brilliant songs that are difficult to forget. The Hindi film song, though not always great poetry, still needs to be taken seriously, if for no other reason than that it has touched and influenced millions of ordinary Indians, uneducated and illiterate though they may have been and has connected with listeners who may not even have watched the movie to which the songs belonged. Hindi film songs have a vibrant e