{"id":2851,"date":"2016-04-20T00:00:05","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T18:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/?p=2851"},"modified":"2019-04-22T10:52:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-22T05:22:36","slug":"shakeel-badayuni","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningandcreativity.com\/silhouette\/shakeel-badayuni\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Jo Bhi Ho Tum Khuda Ki Kasam, Lajawab Ho’: Remembering Shakeel Badayuni"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When one thinks of lyricist, poet, shayar, Shakeel Badayuni in reference to the Hindi Film Song, what comes to mind is his large variety of songs that he composed for various film situations and with many different music composers. One rare feat (for those times) that gets associated with Shakeel is his hat-trick of Filmfare Best Lyricist Awards in the years 1961, 1962 and 1963. Yes, three in a row!<\/p>\n

The first Filmfare Award in 1961 was for Guru Dutt\u2019s Chaudhvin Ka Chand<\/em>, the title song sung by Mohd Rafi and with music by Ravi. In a chat over coffee with this writer, music director Ravi had recalled that his friendship with Shakeel went back to the early fifties. Ravi was an assistant to music director Hemant Kumar then and the most paired lyricist with the Hemant camp was S H Bihari.<\/p>\n

But on coming into his own as an independent music director with Vachan<\/em> in 1955, Ravi was waiting for an opportunity to get paired with Shakeel. Guru Dutt approached him after liking his music in Mehndi <\/em>(1958) which was based on Umrao Jaan Ada, a story with a Muslim social background. Ravi said he had asked for Shakeel to be his lyricist and that was it. Chaudvin Ka Chand<\/em> released in 1960 and was a hit and so was Gemini\u2019s Ghunghat<\/em> by Ramanand Sagar, another hit from the Ravi-Shakeel team.<\/p>\n

Forty six years ago, on 20th<\/sup> April, lyricist, poet, shayar, Shakeel Badayuni breathed his last owing to diabetes related complexes. He was just 53 years old and a very successful lyricist in Hindi main stream cinema. We\u00a0pay our tribute to Shakeel through some of his choicest songs.<\/p>\n

Let us start with the three films that gave Shakeel Badayuni three consecutive Filmfare awards:<\/p>\n

The title song of Chaudhvin Ka Chand<\/em> is one of the all-time best romantic numbers of Hindi film music, describing the beauty of a woman like none else. Shot superbly by master craftsman V K Murthy with apt directions from Guru Dutt and sung with perfect emoting feelings by Rafi, here\u2019s jo bhi ho tum khuda ki kasam laajawab ho<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Chaudhvin ka chand ho ya aftaab ho<\/strong><\/em> (Chaudhvin Ka Chand<\/em>, 1960) – Ravi \/ Shakeel Badayuni \/ Mohd Rafi<\/span><\/p>\n