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Rahat Indori’s death an ‘unquantifiable loss’, says Gulzar

MADHYA PRADESH :

Gulzar said Rahat Indori was in total rapport with the new generation and times.


Legendary poet Rahat Indori passed away on Tuesday. (Photo: Express Archive, Rahat Indori/Twitter)

Noted lyricist-poet Gulzar said the death of Urdu poet Rahat Indori, who passed away following a heart attack on Tuesday, is a loss which cannot be quantified.

Indori, 70, was admitted to a hospital on Tuesday morning in Indore after he tested positive for COVID-19.

“It is an unquantifiable loss. He was one of a kind. It’s as if somebody has left a void in our Urdu mushairas which can never be filled. Woh jagah ko khali kar ke chale gaye. It is not a big loss, it is a total loss,” he told PTI.

He remembered Indori as someone who would steal the thunder at mushairas (poetry symposium).

“Wo toh lutera tha mushairon ka. A happy-go-lucky man who was the ‘jaan’ (soul) of mushairas,” Gulzar said.

Gulzar said Indori was in total rapport with the new generation and times.

“He was very relevant. People of all ages used to wait for his turn at mushairas. One mostly comes across romantic shers in mushairas, but all his work that he read was about the sociopolitical and contemporary climate,” he added.

Asked when he last spoke to Indori, the 85-year-old legendary lyricist said it is difficult to recollect, but it seems as if they spoke just the other day.

Gulzar said his friend, filmmaker Vidhu Vinod Chopra, who worked with Indori on Mission Kashmir, would often tell him about work, including his songs Bumbro and Dhuaan Dhuaan on the 2000 film.

“I would love it and talk to him (Indori). Jab bhi koi aacha sher sunn liya, phone kar liya, daad de di (Whenever I would hear a good sher by him, I’d call him up to congratulate him),” he remembered.

With a 50-year career in poetry, Indori was known for the lyrics of songs like Dekh Le from Chopra’s Munnabhai MBBS ”(2003), Chori Chori Jab Nazrein Mili from Kareeb (1998), and Koi Jaye to Le Aaye from Ghatak (1996 ), and Neend Churai Meri from Ishq (1997). His lyrics were used in 11 Bollywood films.

source: http://www.indianexpress.com / The Indian Express / Home> Entertainment> Bollywood / by PTI, Mumbai / August 12th, 2020

Portrait of a poet

Indore , MADHYA PRADESH :

“My biographer has written the book so well I almost did not recognise myself. In order to be a big poet, the poet has to be a crazy lover. I could not become a big poet because I could not reach that stage.” – Rahat Indori, Poet

Celebrated poet Rahat Indori at Sahitya Aaj Tak on Sunday

Apne haakim kee fakiri par taras aata hai, jo gareebon se paseene kee kamaee maange, Saara din jel ki deevaar uthaate rahiye, aisee aajaadee ki har shakhs rihaee maange.

This was just one of the couplets recited during the unveiling of the biography of iconic poet and lyricist, Dr Rahat Indori, on the final day of Sahitya Aaj Tak on Sunday. The biography, Rahat Sahab: Mujhe Sunte Rahe Log Waqiya Mere has been written by Dr Deepak Ruhani. The author discussed the making of the biography with his subject, as well as singer-turned politician Hans Raj Hans.

Commenting on the association between Indori and Ruhani, Hans complimented Ruhani on his speed. “You have finished this biography in two years, when many writers take their time writing the and cannot complete them in one decade.”

Ruhani said his association with Indori goes back 17 years. While researching the book, one of the fringe benefits was listening to unforgettable shayari from Indori, he said. “I used to wait for a long time to come and hear him and sat on the grass while he recited the couplets.” Rahat Sahab will be officially released on November 10.

source: http://www.indiatoday.in / India Today / Home> News> Mail Today / by Mail Today Bureau / November 04th, 2019