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LYRICIST HASRAT JAIPURI PASSES AWAY !!

Famous Poet and Lyricist Hasrat Jaipuri passed away in Bombay
on 17th September 1999 in the evening. He was 81. He has left behind
his wife, a daughter and two sons.
He was ill for the last 30 months. After a bone fracture, he
was admitted to Holy Family Hospital at Bandra (Bombay) on 14th
September. He breathed his last on 17th September 1999 due to failure
of kidney and lever.
Iqbal 'Hasrat' Jaipuri was born at Jaipur in 1918. He
inherited the quality of a Shair from his grand father (Nana) Fida
Hussain 'Fida'. After preliminary education and learning Urdu &
Persian, he reached Bombay in 1940 and continued struggling but serving
as a Bus Conductor for about 6 years. After meeting with Raj Kapoor
and Shanker-Jaikishan, he was engaged to write songs for the first time
in BARSAAT which was censored in 1949. He wrote 7 songs in his maiden
film.
He had long association with Raj Kapoor and wrote songs for his
films alongwith Shailendra for almost 3 decades.
As per available information, Hasrat Jaipuri wrote songs for
296 Hindi films. Out of 296, he wrote ALL the songs for 56 Hindi
films. He wrote maximum number of songs for the composer duo late
Shanker-Jaikishan for as much as 116 Hindi films. It is estimated that
he wrote about 1,000 songs for Hindi films.
In the year 1998, he wrote songs for 2 Hindi films named
SAAZISH and SHER KHAN. No film of his songs seems to have been censored
as yet in the current year.

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Kanti Shah

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Hasrat Jaipuri, an outstanding lyricist, will always be remembered for his
unforgetable songs right from his first film " Barsaat "(1949). I believe
'jiya beqarar hai' was his first film song. My favourite Hasrat penned song
is 'bichhde hue pardesi' from the same film.
A truely great lyricist.

Regards
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Kanti Shah

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In article <7s00c4$v3u$1...@nnrp1.deja.com>,
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From the Times of India:

Monday 20 September 1999

The success story of Hasrat Jaipuri

By Ambarish Mishra

The Times of India News Service

MUMBAI: His life story is the stuff that Bollywood dreams
are
made of. Bidding al vida to Jaipur, his hometown, Iqbal
Hussain
Hasrat arrived in Mumbai on a sultry afternoon in 1944 in
sheer
desperation. ``Mujhe sirf naukari chahiye thi'' (I only
wanted a
job), well- known film lyricist Hasrat Jaipuri told this
correspondent a few years ago during an interview at his
residence.

Having reached the shores of the City of Gold, Hasrat
was, for
the next four years, out on the city's mean streets,
hawking
paper- mache toys and film booklets. After a brief stint
as usher
in the now-defunct Super cinema in south Mumbai, he
hitched
onto the BEST bandwagon to punch bus tickets on the `H'
route.

Then, Prithviraj Kapoor happened to hear Hasrat recite
one of
his longish poems at a mushaira. The thespian strongly
recommended the wannabe shair. to his son who was busy
mounting his next production with a fresh team. `Barsaat'
brought
instant glory to Raj Kapoor, Lata Mangeshkar, the music
director
duo Shankar-Jaikishan and Hasrat Jaipuri. A nascent
republic
mooned and swooned over the rustic `dholak' beat of
Lata's Jiya
beqaraar hai, a Hasrat number reminiscent of a Punjabi
folk
song.

Nevertheless, the veteran song- writer, who passed away
in
Mumbai on Friday after a protracted ailment, had it is
believed,
made it a point to put it down in his will that no film
personality
should attend his funeral.

Prolonged hibernation and illness had saddened the heart
of the
lyricist who penned super-duper hits such as Yeh mera
prem
patra padhkar (Sangam), Suno chhotisi gudiya ki lambi
kahaani
(Seema), Nain so nain naahin milao (Jhanak Jhanak Payal
Baaje),
Bahaaron phool barasaao (Sooraj), Jaane kahan gaye woh
din
(Mera Naam Joker) and Rasik Balma (Chori Chori), to name
a
few.

``Hasratsahab kaa dil bada dukhi ho gayaa tha filmwaalon
se,'' (Hasrat was greatly disappointed with the film
industry),
well-known music director Naushad Ali told this newspaper
on
Saturday. ``His songs were full of `sur' (musical notes)
and `ras'
(emotions),'' he added.``Hasratsahab's rise to stardom is
amazing. From a humble beginning, he rose to the top, as
if
straight out of a Hindi film. His was an exciting journey
from
anonymity to popularity,'' said well- known poet and film
maker
Gulzar, who described Hasrat and the legendary Shailendra
- the
duo worked in tandem for Raj Kapoor - as the ``most
popular
lyricist'' of the golden era of Hindi cinema. ``Both
wrote with a
passion. Both knew the pulse of the people. Hasratsahab
played
his innings with remarkable perseverance,'' added Gulzar.

Renowned lyricist and poet Majrooh Sultanpuri credited
Hasrat
Jaipuri with having embellished Hindi film songs with
rich imagery
from Urdu literature. ``Hasrat brought Urdu's grace and
style to
popular film ditties. Yet, he never lost sight of popular
demand,''
explained Majrooh. In Raj Kapoor's blockbusters, Hasrat
was
not always rewarded with ``promising'' situations. Yet,
his songs
enlivened the song scenes on celluliod, the Dadasaheb
Phalke-laureate declared.

``Hasrat's songs with Jaikishan's score have an
ever-lasting
appeal,'' said film music buff Prakash Joshi.

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