“Mujhe fakhr hai meri shayri Meri zindagi se judaa nahi.” Shakeel Badayuni
He belonged to neo-India; a nation just woken to freedom. In that mood of revolutionary ideas and progressive poetry, Shakeel Badayuni stayed true to his romantic predilection. He preferred being a crusader of love than a cheerleader of rebellion. Along with maestro Naushad, he went on to celebrate romance in all its sensual and lyrical glory.
He’s also remembered for being an advocate of the GangaJamuni tehzeeb, the womb of secularism. Shakeel, Naushad and Mohammed Rafi came together to create the iconic bhajan Hari Om… man tadpat Hari darshan ko aaj for Baiju Bawra based on raag malkauns. Story goes that Naushad asked his team to attend the recording only after ablutions as a bhajan was to be recorded… such was the sanctity of their art. MughalE-Azam remains another monumental collaboration where their songs captured the delirium and the disenchantment of love against the backdrop of palace intrigue.
Shakeel’s the only lyricist to have won three consecutive Filmfare Awards (1960, 1961, 1962) under composers Ravi and Hemant Kumar. His paeans to a woman’s celestial beauty in Chaudvin ka chaand, won him the Black Lady and Waheeda Rehman an epithet forever. He won the Filmfare trophy twice again for the deferential Husnwale tera jawab nahin and the melancholic Kahin deep jale kahin dil. While his lyrics for films thrived on corporal metaphors, outside it, his poetry was marked by the intricacies of love and life. No wonder it found patronage in renowned ghazal exponents. Begum Akhtar’s rendition of his ghazal, Mere humnafas mere humnawa, has exalted Shakeel into the gallery of the greats…
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