Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two decades after his demise, Majrooh Sultanpuri continues to be replayed in his 3000 songs. He's as much part of remix podcasts ...

Thursday marks the 96th birth anniversary of lyricist Majrooh Sultanpuri. The Urdu poet, honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1993, and the Filmfare Award for Dosti in 1965, among several ...

This past weekend saw the release of Bombay Velvet, filmmaker Anurag Kashyap’s gangster drama film set in Mumbai of the 1960s. The initial teaser in the weeks leading up to the film’s release featured ...

Initiated into the nuances of songwriting by his first composer, Naushad, in Shahjehan (1946), Sultanpuri was a fast learner, and when writing for a film, he always thought of the character’s ...

Majrooh Sultanpuri was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist in the Hindi film industry. He wrote Hindustani lyrics for numerous Hindi film soundtracks. He is even considered one of the finest avant-garde ...

What could be more satisfying for a poet-writer than the world know him better by his nom de plume than his actual name? The name Asrar-ul-Hasan Khan may not ring a bell but say Majrooh Sultanpuri and ...

Had he not been associated with Hindi films, lines like “Main akela hi chala tha jaanib-e-manzil magar/Log saath aate gaye aur karvan banta gaya” would have been enough for his fame. Majrooh ...

Majrooh Sultanpuri was an Indian Urdu poet and lyricist in the Hindi film industry. He wrote Hindustani lyrics for numerous Hindi film soundtracks. He is even considered one of the finest avant-garde ...

One of the finest poets of 20th century Urdu literature, Majrooh Sultanpuri was born on this day 101 years ago. His contribution to the Hindi film industry as a lyricist is also phenomenal, so much so ...

The one person who can claim to have known Majrooh Sultanpuri, whose birth anniversary was on October 1, since the day he was born, is Milind of the composer duo Anand and Milind. The one person who ...

With the exception of master poets like Mir Taqi ‘Mir’ or Mirza Ghalib, it seldom happens that an Urdu couplet becomes so popular and is quoted so often that it becomes part of everyday speech and ...

One of the finest poets of 20th century Urdu literature, Majrooh Sultanpuri was born on this day 101 years ago. His contribution to the Hindi film industry as a lyricist is also phenomenal, so much so ...