The Shilpakala Vedika auditorium was full. After all, the ‘daughter of Hyderabad’, as she is often proclaimed, was there to enthral them. Qadir Ali Baig Theatre Festival’s precursor event (the festival starts on October 26), Kaifi Aur Main, an IPTA production,…
Come January, and the City of Joy will host a grand three-day event to celebrate the birth centenary of renowned poet Kaifi Azmi. The event will see the presence of the late poet’s daughter and actress, Shabana Azmi, her husband and lyricist Javed…
This is the centenary year of one of Urdu literature’s brightest stars, a shayar beyond comparison and a lyricist who has given the Hindi film industry some of its most iconic songs. Celebrations to mark the 100th birth anniversary of…
Enjoy these Rare videos of Kaifi Azmi enjoying with family 25th March 1998 at Javed Akhtar and Shabana Azmi’s house.
Kaifi Aur Main summarizes everything about Kaifi, be it his 55-year-old romance with Shaukat— right from the time she met him as a young girl, till their last day together — or his progressive social ideas. When the words, ‘Jannat…
अजीब आदमी था वो…. मोहब्बातों का गीत था बग़ावतों का राग था कभी वो सिर्फ़ फूल था कभी वो सिर्फ़ आग था अजीब आदमी था वो… वो मुफ़लिसों से कहता था कि दिन बदल भी सकते हैं वो जाबिरों से…
Film lyricist and poet Javed Akhtar on Wednesday said that despite the political and economic shifts in India, his late father-in-law and poet Kaifi Azmi retained his idealism and remained optimistic of a socialist future for the country. Kaifi’s optimism…
ALIGARH, August 11: National Academy of Letter – Sahitya Academy, in collaboration with the Aligarh Muslim University will organize a one-day national Symposium on eminent Urdu poet Kaifi Azmi on August 19, 2015 at Kennedy Auditorium at 10 am. Distinguished…
The kind of audience Kaifi Aur Main appeals to are romantics, fans of my father’s songs, of his poetry. All these are integral to the language the book was written in. It wouldn’t be fair to bring it back in…
