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    Rahi Masoom Raza was a famous Urdu poet, writer and lyricist from India. He wrote in Urdu, Hindi and Hindustani. Some of his notable works include the novel Adha Gaon, which depicts life in rural India before partition, and the novel Katra Bi Arzoo, set in 1970s India during the Emergency period. He wrote scripts and dialogues for popular films and TV shows like Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki and Mahabharat. Raza explored themes of partition, social tensions, and the impact of politics on ordinary people in his writing. He received the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki in 1979.

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    Classic Poetry Series

    Rahi Masoom Raza


    - poems -

    Publication Date:
    2012

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    Rahi Masoom Raza (1 September 1925 - 15 March 1992)


    Rahi Masoom Reza (Hindi: ), born in Ghazipur in
    eastern Uttar Pradesh (India) in a Muslim family, was a famous Urdu shayar.
    He also won the Filmfare Best Dialogue Award for the hit film Main Tulsi Tere
    Aangan Ki in 1979. He also wrote in Hindustani and Hindi language. He was
    also an eminent lyricist of Bollywood.
    Early life and Education
    Rahi Masoom Raza was born on September 1, 1925, in Ghazipur district of
    Eastern Uttar Pradesh.
    He completed his early education in and around Ghazipur from where he
    went to Aligarh Muslim University to complete his higher studies. Masoom
    Raza did his doctorate in Hindustani Literature and pursued his career in
    literature.
    Literary Career
    He wrote the script and dialogues for a popular TV serial, Mahabharat. The
    TV serial was based on the epic, the Mahabharata. The serial became one of
    the most popular TV serial of India, and its peak Television Rating was
    around 86%.
    Several works of Raza vividly depict the agony and turmoil of the
    consequences of partition, and its effect on the Hindu-Muslim relationship in
    the Indian subcontinent, as also the social tension among different social
    groups of India but above that Raza depicts the life in feudal India and the
    ordinary happiness, love,emotions, pain, sadness of general people in his
    master story telling style in which at times he himself is the narrator. For
    instance, his novel named "Adha Gaon" (divided village/split village) narrates
    the story of two opposite land lord Muslim families of village Ganguali and
    there rivalry, life style, concerns, at the time when India was gaining
    independence, spread with depiction of ordinary life of every character of
    that novel and their love, romance, hate, vengeance, emotional struggle with
    every emotion of a ordinary man very clearly and vividly described. The
    Novel "Adha Gaon" is based on central theme that people whether elite or
    belonging to general class of both Hindu & Muslims were sharing same land,
    water and air like brothers with all their human qualities and weaknesses but
    communal rivalry was not that much prominent then the mutual relationship
    between the both the communities in United Provinces at the time of Indian
    Partition. In "Adha Gaon" Raza paints a very colourful picture of 1940's rural
    India showing interdependence of Muslim & Hindus on each other be it may
    be in form of relationship between two landlords or relationship between
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    master and servants (right hand man of a Muslim Zamindar is a Hindu and
    best friend is also a Hindu Zamindar). Theme of novel is that,that before
    politics tore us away we (Hindu and Muslim)were one nation, Hindustan.
    Katra Bi Arzoo (that is, The Lady Desire locality or The Lady Arzoo locality) is
    set in the city of Allahabad, Katra being a locality of the city. The novel is set
    in 1970's India and as its central theme it bares the brutality of emergency
    in India and how general people were affected by such a draconian
    regime.Its an ode to anti emergency activist and shows how people through
    their vested interest enjoyed the fruits of emergency and how emergency
    ruined and destroyed the life's people. In foreword Raza dedicates the novel
    to anti-emergency activists and say that freedom of speech is basic
    freedom.The novel shakes the conscience of every reader and by the time
    one ends the novel he is in tears.
    Another novel, named Topi Shukla also revolves around the acts and
    conducts of devilish politicians of India min character topi shukla being
    metaphor for Indian politician.
    In his "Neem ka Ped" Raza tells the story of a "asami" i.e. tenant/serf and
    labourer and his landlord master, story starting in pre-independent India and
    ending in post independent India, showing the vagaries of both the feudal
    and democratic systems in India with its darker side. The main protagonist is
    a landless labourer who is very faithful and obedient to his master and
    dreams only of making his only son an educated person. Fortunes dwindles
    in landlords home and he is sentenced to jail for murder of a upcoming
    leader of congress because of manipulations of his cousin who is also a
    landlord but nurses a grudge against the landlord. After independence son of
    labourer becomes a member of parliament and son of landlord his trusted aid
    and advisor but as the saying is "power corrupts" the son of labourer who
    had now became an M.P. gets corrupt and selfish and in that is destroyed.
    Highly popular T.V. serial by same name was made on these novel in which
    Pankaj Kapoor marvellously depicted the landless labourer.
    The pop sensation of yesteryears Parvati Khan is his daughter-in-law. She is
    married to his son Nadeem Khan, director and cinematographer.
    Works:
    Novel
    Adha Gaon (that is, The Divided Village)A Village Divided
    Dil ek saada kaghaz
    Topi Shukla
    Os ki boond
    Katra Bi arzoo
    Scene No. 75
    Poetry(books)
    Mauz-e-ghul mauz-e-saba(Urdu)
    Ajnabee shahar ajnabee raste(Urdu)
    Main ek Feriwala(Hindi)
    Sheeshe ke Makaan Wale(Hindi)
    Autobiography
    Chotey aadmi ki badee kahaani (that is, "Big story of a Small man")
    Movie and TV scripts
    Neem ka Ped - Novel and TV Serial with same name
    Kissi Se Na Kehna
    Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
    Disco Dancer
    Mahabharat

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    Movie dialogues
    Aaina (1993)
    Parampara (1992)
    Lamhe (1991)
    Karz (1980)
    Judaai (1980)
    Hum Paanch (1980)
    Gol Maal (1979)
    Alaap (1977)
    Movie Lyrics
    Alaap (1977)

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    Dil ke ujle kagaz par ham kaisa geet likhe

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    Hamm to hai pardesh me, desh me nikla hoga chand

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    Jinse Ham Chhoot Gaye

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    Strange roads of the strange city


    Strange roads of the strange city
    kept smiling on my loneliness
    for long time I wandered there
    for long time you came to my mind
    hardships came, hardships I suffered
    I lived daily as if I had breathed out
    Life kept on testing me
    I kept on testing my life
    So on and so forth I lived my life
    What was wrong me, you didn't like?
    I was ready to give my life for you
    Money not love was of value to you
    I wish I had never met you
    No I cannot live without you
    Take me back my darling
    All my life I'll be a serf to you
    Kiss your rear no matter what you do
    My heart has now for ever fallen for you
    O my poor bastardly heart, I am
    Suffering now only because of you!
    - Added verses and translation by Ravi Kopra
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