Kaifi Azmi News
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The pioneering films of Chetan Anand – Centenary special
Strangely, the visionary filmmaker and his work have not received the prominence that they...
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50 years of Heer Raanjha: Chetan Anand's definitive adaptation of the love ballad is sheer poetry on screen
The film, starring Raaj Kumar and Priya Rajvansh, is the only one in Hindi cinema to have the entire...
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Shaukat Kaifi, mother of Shabana Azmi, dies at 91
The actress and social activist died at her Juhu home of age-related ailments late on Friday....
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Vikramaditya Motwane, Varun Grover, Vikram Chandra to talk Sacred Games at South Asian Literature and Art Festival
The team behind the Emmy-nominated Netflix web-series will speak on a panel at the Californian...
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5 Kaifi Azmi songs that capture the different shades of life – Birth centenary special
On the birth centenary of poet-lyricist Kaifi Azmi, we look at five songs that capture his views on...
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Amitabh Bachchan compares Sridevi's passing to Guru Dutt's in touching poem
The actor tweeted a couplet from a Kaifi Azmi ghazal, as recollected by Javed Akhtar, at the funeral...
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What set apart Kaifi Azmi from his peer and contemporary Sahir Ludhianvi?
Peers, competitors, friends, and fellow men, Kaifi Azmi and Sahir Ludhianvi were among the most and...
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Shabana, brother organise musical tribute for dad Kaifi Azmi on 98th birth anniversary
Singers like Sunidhi Chauhan, Alka Yagnik, Hariharan, Roop Kumar-Sonali Rathod, Talat Aziz will be...
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21 of the most heartbreaking love ballads in Bollywood
The sweetest songs are often the saddest. Nowhere is this truer than in Hindi cinema.From Kumar to...
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Is this Bollywood's most patriotic song?
In a film about India's biggest failures in the theatre of war, Kaifi Azmi and Chetan Anand one...
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6 unforgettable nazms by Kaifi Azmi
A romantic revolutionary, Azmi changed Indian cinema with his intense, emotional verses. Here are 6...