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Kaifi Azmi (born Athar Husain Rizvi; 14 January 1919 – 10 May 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He is remembered as the one who brought Urdu literature to Indian motion pictures. [2] Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jaun Elia and others he participated in many memorable Mushaira gatherings of the twentieth century.
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Kaifi Azmi was a rare poet who practiced what he preached. A brain hemorrhage on 8th February 1973 paralysed him and rendered his left hand and left leg incapacitated for life. Instead of giving up in despair he decided to leave the comforts of Bombay and settle in Mijwan the tiny village in Azamgarh Eastern UP in which he was born.
Kaifi Azmi (born c. 1919, Mizwan, Azamgarh, United Provinces, British India [now Uttar Pradesh, India]—died May 10, 2002, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) was one of the most renowned Indian poets of the 20th century, who sought to inspire social change through his passionate Urdu-language verse.
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Sayyid Akhtar Hussein Rizvi, known as Kaifi Azmi (January 14, 1919 -- May 10, 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He was considered to be one the greatest Urdu poets of 20th century.
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Born in a Zamindar family in Mijwan, Azamgarh, Kaifi Azmi wrote his first ghazal 'Itna to zindagi mein kisi ki khalal pade' at the age of eleven. He joined the Communist Party at the age of 19 ...
May 10, 2002 · Kaifi Azmi was a famous Hindi and Urdu poet and lyricist of Hindi film. He was born on Januray 14, 1919 in a landlord family of Mejwan, Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. Azmi abandoned his studies of Persian and Urdu during the Quit India agitations in 1942 and shortly thereafter became a full-time Marxist.