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Anand Bakshi (21 July 1930 – 30 March 2002) was a popular Indian Anand Bakshi
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Wikidata item Born 21 July 1930
Cite this page Early life [edit] Rawalpindi, Punjab, British India
Died 30 March 2002 (aged 71)
Print/export Anand Bakshi (Bakhshi Anand Prakash Vaid) was born in Rawalpindi, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Create a book now in Pakistan, on 21 July 1930.[2] His ancestors were Mohyal Brahmins Occupation Lyricist
Download as PDF from Kurree, near Rawalpindi, and had their origins in Kashmir. His
Years active 1945–2002
Printable version mother, Sumitra, died when he was five years old. Bakshi's family
Relatives Aditya Datt (grandson)[1]
migrated to India (Delhi) on 2 October 1947, in the aftermath of the
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partition, when he was 17 years old. [citation needed] The family arrived in Delhi, via a Dakota aircraft, and then migrated to
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Pune, then Meerut and settled finally in Delhi.

Bakshi was fond of writing poetry since his youth, but he did this mostly as a private hobby. In a 1983 interview with
Doordarshan,[3] Bakshi recounted that after his initial studies, he joined the Indian Army, where due to a paucity of time,
he could only write occasionally.[3] He continued to write poetry whenever time permitted, and used his songs and lyrics
in local programmes related to his troop. [3] He worked in the Army for many years and simultaneously tried to market
Edit links his songs in the Mumbai film world.[3]

Chronology from first job with Royal Indian Navy to lyrics writing: Joined Royal Indian Navy as Anand Prakash, age 14,
at Karachi (Rank – Boy 1) – 12-7-1944. Ship – H.M.I.S. Dilawar from 12-7-1944 to 4-4-1945.

Dismissed from Royal Indian Navy – 5-4-1946. (Served on H.M.I.S. Bahadur from 5-4-1945 to 5-4-1946).

Left Rawalpindi, Pakistan (due to Partition) on 2-10-1947 and travelled to Delhi. They got themselves registered as
refugees at the office of the D.S. Police, (refugee Registration Branch), Poona on 14-10-1947.

Joined Army, Corps of Signals (Rank – Signal Man) (at Jubbulpore) (as Anand Prakash) on 15-11-1947, age 20.

Discharged from the Army Corps of Signals at his own request on 10-4-1950 He had served in the Army for 2 years, 4
months, 12 days. Army trade and qualification – Switch Board Operator Class III. Left Army on 12-4-1950.

Took voluntary discharge from the Army, E.M.E. (The Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers) a second time, on
27-8-1956, at Jubbulpore, Lucknow.

Arrived in Mumbai, (to find work in films as a singer and or lyricist and or artist and or music composer) the second time
– Oct. 1956.

Success [edit]

Anand Bakshi came to Hindi films to make a name for himself in writing and singing, but ended up becoming more
successful in writing lyrics. He got his break writing songs in a Brij Mohan film titled Bhalaa Aadmi (1958), acted by
Bhagwan Dada. He wrote four songs in this film. His first song in this film was "Dharti Ke Laal Na Kar Itna Malaal"
which was recorded on 9 Nov 1956. (In his own voice on All India Radio interview)[4]

After writing for a few movies from 1956 onwards, he first found success in 1962 with Mehendi Lagi Mere Haath, which
was produced by (LimeLight), Music Kalyanji & Anandji, Music Pub-HMV/Saregama. Bakshi later made another mark
for himself writing a quawwali for the 1962 film Kala Samundar, the song was "Meri Tasveer Lekar Kya Karoge Tm". He
got his real big breakthroughs in 1965 with Himalay Ki God Mein, and a huge breakthrough again in 1965 with the
super-hit film Jab Jab Phool Khile , starring Shashi Kapoor; and yet again in 1967 with the super-hit movie Milan
(starring Sunil Dutt). These six hit films within a decade of his entry into films cemented his status as a lyrics writer of
immense calibre. Bakshi was preferred lyricist by Rajesh Khanna for films with Rajesh Khanna in lead. He went on to
work as a lyricist of over 3500 songs and 638 films in his career.[5][citation needed] (See Filmography below for films
reference, names of the films and their year of censorship.)

He got his first break as singer in a film directed by Mohan Kumar – Mom Ki Gudiya (1972). The first song he sang was
a duet – "Baaghon mein bahaar aayi hothon pe pukaar aayi", along with Lata Mangeshkar, with music composed by
Laxmikant-Pyarelal. He also sang the solo "Main dhoondh raha tha sapnon mein" from the same film. He also sang
songs in four other films: Sholay (1975), where he sang the quawwali "Chand Sa Koi Chehera" along with Manna Dey,
Kishore Kumar and Bhupinder, (the song was released on vinyl, but not in the feature film); Maha Chor (1976); Charas
(1976); and Balika Badhu (1976).

Anand Bakshi was widely associated with music composers such as Laxmikant-Pyarelal, R D Burman, Kalyanji
Anandji, SD Burman, Anu Malik, Rajesh Roshan and Anand-Milind, and his songs have been sung by all the top
singers as well as other singers such as Shamshad Begum, Ila Arun, Khursheed Bawra, Amirbai Karnataki, Sudha
Malhotra and more. He is known to have worked with more than one generation of music composers.

He wrote the first recorded songs of many first time male and female leads who went on to become stars, and also of
singers such as Shailendra Singh, Kumar Sanu, Kavita Krishnamurthy etc., and he established himself as a versatile
lyricist with the song "Dum Maro Dum" in the movie Hare Rama Hare Krishna (1972).

After this, he wrote memorable lyrics in many movies including Bobby, Amar Prem (1971), Aradhana (1970), Jeene Ki
Raah, Mera Gaon Mera Desh, Aaye Din Bahar Ke, Aya Sawan Jhoom Ke, Seeta Aur Geeta, Sholay (1975), Dharam
Veer, Nagina, Lamhe, Hum (1991), Mohra (1994), Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge (1995), Pardes (1997), Heer Raanjha,
Dushman (1998), Taal (1998), Mohabbatein (2000), Gadar: Ek Prem Katha (2001), and Yaadein (2001).

Death [edit]

Late in his life, he suffered from heart and lung disease as a consequence of lifelong smoking. In March 2002, he
caught a bacterial infection at Nanavati hospital during a minor heart surgery. He finally died of multiple organ failure on
30 March 2002, 8:00 PM at Mumbai's Nanavati Hospital, at the age of 72.[citation needed] The last released movie with
lyrics by Anand Bakshi (after his death) was Mehbooba.

At the time of his death in 2002, he was survived by his wife Kamla Mohan Bakshi, his daughter Suman Datt (married),
sons Rajesh Bakshi, Rakesh Bakshi, and daughter Kavita Bali (married). His grandson Aditya Datt is a film director. His
son Rakesh Anand Bakshi is author of Directors' Diaries – The Road To Their First Film.[6] Bakshi was nominated for
the Filmfare award for best lyricist a total of 40 times, resulting in 4 wins

Filmography [edit]

Main article: Anand Bakshi filmography

References [edit]

1. ^ Taran Adarsh (26 May 2005). "Anand Bakshi's grand-son turns director" . BH News Network. Bollywood Hungama.
Retrieved 8 February 2016.
2. ^ "Anand Bakshi on TOTAL RECALL Part 1 (@Times Now)" . Retrieved 29 January 2012.
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3. ^ Tabassum. "Interview with Anand Bakshi – Phool khile hain gulshan gulshan" . You Tube. Doordarshan.
Retrieved 5 July 2016.
4. ^ Rakesh Anand Bakshi (24 September 2011). "Anand Bakshi Singing his 1st song from 1st film BHALA AADMI, Ameen
Sayani radio show" – via YouTube.
5. ^ Rakesh Anand Bakshi (3 November 2011). "Vijay Akela & Rakesh Anand Bakshi speaks of Anand Bakshi- Part 1" –
via YouTube.
6. ^ https://harpercollins.co.in/author-details/rakesh-bakshi/

External links [edit]

Anand Bakshi on IMDb

V· T · E Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist

Shailendra (1959) · Shailendra (1960) · Shakeel Badayuni (1961) · Shakeel Badayuni (1962) · Shakeel Badayuni
(1963) · Sahir Ludhianvi (1964) · Majrooh Sultanpuri (1965) · Rajendra Krishan (1966) · Hasrat Jaipuri (1967) ·
 1959–1980 Gulshan Kumar Mehta (1968) · Shailendra (1969) · Neeraj (1970) · Verma Malik (1971) · Hasrat Jaipuri (1972) ·
Verma Malik (1973) · Gulshan Kumar Mehta (1974) · Santosh Anand (1975) · Indeevar (1976) · Sahir Ludhianvi
(1977) · Gulzar (1978) · Anand Bakshi (1979) · Gulzar (1980)
Gulzar (1981) · Anand Bakshi (1982) · Santosh Anand (1983) · Gulzar (1984) · Hasan Kamal (1985) · Vasant Dev
(1986) · no award (1987) · no award (1988) · Gulzar (1989) · Asad Bhopali (1990) · Sameer (1991) · Gulzar (1992) ·
1981–2000
Sameer (1993) · Sameer (1994) · Javed Akhtar (1995) · Anand Bakshi (1996) · Javed Akhtar (1997) · Javed Akhtar
(1998) · Gulzar (1999) · Anand Bakshi (2000)
Javed Akhtar (2001) · Javed Akhtar (2002) · Gulzar (2003) · Javed Akhtar (2004) · Javed Akhtar (2005) · Gulzar
(2006) · Prasoon Joshi (2007) · Prasoon Joshi (2008) · Javed Akhtar (2009) · Irshad Kamil (2010) · Gulzar (2011) ·
2001-present
Irshad Kamil (2012) · Gulzar (2013) · Prasoon Joshi (2014) · Rashmi Singh (2015) · Irshad Kamil (2016) ·
Amitabh Bhattacharya (2017) · Amitabh Bhattacharya (2018) · Gulzar (2019)

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Categories: 1920 births 2002 deaths Indian lyricists Indian male poets Filmfare Awards winners
People from Rawalpindi Indian Army personnel Pakistani male poets 20th-century Indian poets
20th-century Pakistani poets Pakistani lyricists Poets from Maharashtra Indian male songwriters
20th-century Indian male writers

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