
Whenever there is talk of serious poetry, pain and human feelings in the world of Hindi literature and Bollywood, the first name that comes to mind is one who achieved a new level by putting every piece of his broken life into words. Famous poet and lyricist who wrote immortal and soul-touching lines like “Sometimes no one gets perfection, no land, no sky”. Nida Fazli His life was no less than a film story. The deep wounds he suffered in the initial journey of his life, the pain of partition of the country and the sorrow of one-sided unfulfilled love made him a great poet of the century.
The journey and pain of partition started from Gwalior
Famous poet Nida Fazli was born on 12 October 1938 in Delhi, but her childhood and early education was spent in the environment of Gwalior. His real name was Muqtada Hasan Nida Fazli. He did his further education by completing M.A. in Hindi and Urdu Literature from Vikram University, Ujjain. Was achieved by completing. However, when the country was partitioned, her parents and the entire family moved to Pakistan, but Nida Fazli made a firm decision to stay in India. The pain of being separated from his family forever settled within him and he started feeling extremely lonely. This loneliness and renunciation later became the biggest strength and identity of his poetry.
The beginning of converting the incomplete love and sorrow of college into poetry.
Nida Fazli’s love story was as painful and emotional as her ghazals. When he was studying in college in Gwalior, he fell deeply in love with a girl from his class. However, despite all his wishes, he was never able to express his love to that girl. One day when he reached college, there was a heartbreaking notice pasted on the notice board that his girlfriend (whose name was Miss Tandon) had passed away in an accidental accident. This sad news shook his heart completely from within.
To overcome this deep tragedy and the sorrow of his unfulfilled love, he started taking help of words. Gradually he started going to the local mushairas of Gwalior, where his serious compositions started attracting people’s attention. Poetry became for him not only entertainment but also a balm to stop the bleeding of his heart.
Gave many cult and evergreen songs to Bollywood
In the year 1964, Nida Fazli came to Mumbai to try her luck and in search of livelihood. During the initial days of struggle, he worked as a writer for prestigious magazines like ‘Dharmyug’ and ‘Blitz’. Seeing his ability, he soon started getting big opportunities to write songs in Hindi cinema. The song ‘Kabhi Kisi Ko Mukkammal Jahan Nahi Milta’ written by him from the film ‘Ahista-Ahista’ and the famous song ‘Hosh Walon Ko Khabar Kya’ from the film ‘Sarfarosh’ still rule the hearts of music lovers.
According to an estimate, Nida Fazli wrote more than 350 songs and ghazals for Bollywood throughout her career, including films like ‘Razia Sultan’ and ‘Sarfarosh’, along with many of her famous albums with legendary ghazal singer Jagjit Singh and popular television serials. Even though he is not among us today, each and every word written by him is still alive in our hearts.
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