Majrooh Sultanpuri
Majrooh Sultanpuri
was born in Sultanpur
(Uttar Padesh) in 1922. His real name was Asrar
Husssain Khan but he is better known by his pen-name Majrooh
Sultanpuri. He
wrote in almost all of the forms
of lyrics like melodies, ghazals,
romantic songs, qawaalis,
shairies etc. over 50 years in Indian film industry. He
started his filmi carreer with filim Shahjahan (1946) by writing
lyrics. Majrooh worked with many music directors
namely Anand-Milind, Anil Biswas,
Chitragupta, Khaiyaam, Kishore Kumar, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, N.Dutta, Naushad, O.P.Nayyar, R.D.Burman, Ravi, Roshan,
S.D.Burman, and Salil Choudhury. He also worked with Anu Mallik, Bappi Lahiri,
Basu Chakravarty, C.Ramachandra, Ghulam Mohd., Hemant Kumar, Husnlal-Bhagatram, Kalyanji-Anandji, Mukul Roy, Rajesh Roshan, S.Madan, Shanker-Jaikishan, Tushar Bhatia, Usha Khanna
and Vasant Desai. He received Filmfare award for
his lyrics in film 'Dosti' in 1964
and he was awarded by highest honor of Dada Saheb Phalke Award in 1994
for life time contibution to india cinema. He died on 25th May, 2000 in Mumbai. His famous films are Shahjehan (1946), Aar Par (1954), Mr.
& Mrs. 55 (1955), CID (1956), Paying Guest (1957), Nau Do Gyaarh (1957), Solva Sal
(1958), Chalti Ka Naam Gari (1958), Sujata (1959), Bambai Ka Babu (1960),Tesri Manzil (1966), Dastak (1970), Pakeezah (1971), Anamika (1973), Abhiman (1973), Qayamat
Se Qayamat Tak (1988), Dil Ashana Hai (1992), Andaz Apana Apana (1994) and many more.
