Google Doodle Pays Tribute to Late Song Writer and Lyricist Kaifi Azmi
Google Doodle paid a tribute to late poetwriter and lyricist Kaifi Azmi with a tremendous painting on his one hundred and first birthday of remembrance on Gregorian calendar month fourteen, 2020 today.
At the age of nineteen, he joined the Communist Party and was invited by Communist leader Sajjad Zaheer to Bombay to jot down for the paper ‘Qaumi Jung’.
Azmi won varied awards for his contributions, as well as the National Award and Filmfare Award for the play script and dialogue of M.S. Sathyu’s 1974 film ‘Garm Hava’. He additionally received the Padma Shri Award for Literature and Education and also the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship.
Azmi wrote regarding farmer suicides and their rights, regarding women’s rights and communal harmony. One amongst Azmi’s known poems, “Aurat,” advocated for women’s equality. This was one amongst the causes he championed throughout his life.
He spent the last twenty years of his life in Mijwan, a tiny low village in the state wherever he was born. There he created associate NGO Mijwan Welfare Society that runs the Kaifi Azmi Higher lyceum for women, the Kaifi Azmi Inter-College for women, the Kaifi Azmi laptop coaching Centre and also the Kaifi Azmi Embroidery and stitching Centre for girls.
Kaifi Azmi was married to stage actor Shaukat Kaifi. He’s the daddy of actor Shabana Azmi and photographer cake Azmi.
Kaifi’s doodle is carrying a white shirt, sporting salt, and pepper hair, singing into a mic. Perhaps he’s reciting his favorite literary work. He feels like reciting a poem.
He joined the Communist Party at the age of nineteen and commenced writing for the party’s paper, ‘Qaumi Jung’ and captive to Bombay.
Kaifi Azmi wrote his song lyric for the movie ‘Brazil’ directed in 1952 by Shahid Lateef. His noted film songs are from Shama, Kaagaz Ke Phool, Shola Aur Shabnam, Anupama, Aakhri Arabian tea, Haqeeqat, Hanste Zakhm, Arth etc. except writing songs, he additionally wrote Chetan Anand’s film Heer Ranjha entirely in verse and created history in dialogue writing.
He won the National Award and Filmfare Award for the play script and dialogue of M.S. Sathyu’s masterpiece, ‘Garm Hawa’. Recognized collectively of the best poets of our times, Kaifi Azmi is additionally the foremost awarded Urdu writer.
Major Awards Embody
Padma Shri
Sahitya Akademi Fellowship
Sahitya Akademi Award
Maharashtra Gaurav Award by Government of Maharashtra
Yash Bhartiya Award by the Uttar Pradesh Government
Delhi Government State Award
Soviet Land Nehru Award
Afro- Asian Writers Lotus Award
He has been honored with Doctorates from several universities in India, like Purvanchal University and Agra University, the foremost prestigious being from the Vishwa Bharti University in Shanti Niketan.
