Majaz ae gham-e-dil kya karun
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Majaz
Indian Urdu poet (1911–1955)
For the 2017 Indian film about the poet, see Majaz: Ae Gham-e-Dil Kya Karun.
Majaz Lakhnawi | |
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| Born | 19 October 1911 Rudauli, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India |
| Died | 5 December 1955 (aged 44) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Pen name | Majaz |
| Occupation | Poet |
| Nationality | Indian |
| Genre | Urdu poetry, Ghazal, nazm, geet |
| Subject | Lust, philosophy, revolution |
| Literary movement | Progressive Writers' Movement |
| Relatives | Hamida Salim (sister) Ansar Harvani (brother) Javed Akhtar (nephew) Salman Akhtar (nephew) Farhan Akhtar (grand son) |
Asrar-ul-Haq (19 October 1911 – 5 December 1955), better known as Majaz Lakhnawi, was an Indian Urdu poet. He is known for his romantic and revolutionary poetry. He composed ghazals and nazms in Urdu. He was the maternal uncle of poet and screenplay writer Javed Akhtar and Indian-American psychoanalyst Salman Akhtar.[1]
Early life and education
Majaz was born on 19 October 1911 at Rudauli in Ayodhya district of what is now Uttar Pradesh.[ Majaz (pronounced Majaaz), who is sometimes called Keats of Urdu Poetry wrote Ghazals and Nazms that, if at once place speak of beauty and optimism and wit – create such a feeling of bitter despair that it leaves an ardent fan of Urdu Poetry like me and many others gasping for air. I have never seen despair and hopelessness as I have in Sahir Ludhianvi’s and Majaaz’s Poetry. Majaz’s life, however, ended way earlier than it should have. He was one of the foremost Urdu Poets during the Progressive Writers Movement in and around 1930s and was a contemporary of noted Poets like Jigar Moradabadi, Firaq Gorakhpuri, Jan Nisar Akhtar, Sahir Ludhianvi and Asgar Gondavi. I hadn’t read much of Majaaz until recently when I found a copy of the TV show “Kahkashaan” that was shown on Indian Television in early 1990s. As the story goes, he fell in love with a married woman from Delhi’s high society and by the time he left Delhi, his heart was reduced to nothing. After having multiple nervous breakdowns (and even landing in a Ranchi Mental H Asrarul Haq Majaz rose as a phenomenon on the horizon of Urdu poetry in the fourth decade of the twentieth century and immediately touched the hearts and minds of the youth of his time due to his charming personality and unique expression. Poets like Faiz Ahmad Faiz, Sardar Jafari, Makhdoom Mohi-ud-Din Jazbi, and Sahir Ludhianvi were not only his contemporaries but also his friends. But even at a time when Majaz's poetry was in its infancy, no other poet could match Majaz’s levels of popularity. There was a time when Majaz’s nazm ‘Awara’, was more popular than Faiz’s ‘Mujhse Pehli Si Muhabbat’ and Sahir’s ‘Taj Mahal’. There were more girls than boys among his fans. According to Ismat Chughtai, in his Aligarh days, the girls of the hostel used to draw lots for him and used to sleep with his collection of poems ‘Ahang’ close to their chest. But unfortunately, Majaz could not set himself right, he drank out of proportions along with Akhtar Shirani, and died some 6 years before his wine mate. Akhtar has writt
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