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This essay has attempted to explore the work of Rajinder Krishan (RK) the lyricist, vis-à-vis his collaboration with different composers between 1948-1973, his most prolific working period. This...

In Part 1 of this study, Monica Kar explored the lyrics Rajinder Krishan (RK) wrote for some composers who he didn’t work too much with. Part 2 explores the lyrics he wrote for some other composers...

Even though Rajinder Krishan worked with a diverse group of composers, singers, directors, and story writers and has a large portfolio as a lyricist, he seems to have no defining characteristics...

For a poet who was part of the Progressive Writers’ Movement, Jan Nisar Akhtar’s lyrics for Hindi film songs were delicately shaded with the disparate colours of romance, writes Anuradha Warrier