Kaifi Azmi
Athar Hussein Rizvi was born in 14 january 1919 known as Kaifi Azmi, was a Urdu Indian artist. Kaifi Azmi is known as the person who acquainted Urdu writing with Indian film pictures. Along with Pirzada Qasim, Jaun Elia and others Kaifi Azmi partook in a few mainstream twentieth-century Mushaira social occasions.At the age of eleven, Azmi wrote his first ghazal "Itna To Zindagi Mein Kisi Ki Khalal Pade" in Bahraich and somehow managed to get himself invited to a mushaira and there recited a ghazal, only a few of the ghazal that was much appreciated by the mushaira chief, Mani Jaisi, but most people including his father felt he was reciting the ghazal of his elder brother.
His elder brother resisted this, and his father and clerk Shauq Bahraichi agreed to try out his poetic ability. They gave him one of the lines of a couplet, and asked him to compose a ghazal in the same meter and rhyme.
Kaifi Azmi welcomed the offer, and he had completed a ghazal. This particular ghazal was to become a sensation in undivided India and as the legendary ghazal singer "Begum Akthar" was immortalized.
During the 1942 Left India agitations, Azmi abandoned his studies in Persian and Urdu and soon afterwards became a full-time Marxist when Kaifi Azmi admitted membership of the Indian Communist Party in 1943. During this time the leading progressive writers of Lucknow found Kaifi Azmi.They have been highly impressed with its leadership skills. They also saw in him a aspiring poet and applied him to any rewards imaginable. As a result, Azmi became a member of the Indian 'Progressive Authors' movement and started to gain considerable acclaim as a author. At the age of twenty-four, he began work in the textile mill areas of Kanpur.
While Kaifi Azmi was the son of a zamindar, he left his life of comfort as a full-time worker. Kaifi Azmi was asked to move his base to Bombay, work among the workers, and launch party work with much excitement and zeal.
As most Urdu poets, Azmi started out as a ghazal writer in a style full of clichés and metaphors, cramming his poetry with the familiar themes of love and passion. But his involvement with the Radical Writers' Movement and the Communist Party prompted him to embark on the journey of socially conscious poetry.
He stresses the injustice of the inferior masses in his verse, and through them, by dismantling the new one, Kaifi Azmi conveys a message of just social order. And one can not render propaganda true to his verse. It has its own merits; the strength of feelings and the spirit of solidarity and concern for the deprived parts of society in particular are the hallmarks of his poetry.
Awards
Kaifi Azmi was laureate of Padma Shri, India's fourth-highest civilian award. In addition, Kaifi Azmi has won the Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy Award and the Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu for his selection of Awaara Sajde, the Maharashtra Urdu Academy Special Prize, the Soviet Land Nehru Award, the Lotus Prize for the Afro-Asian Writers' Association and the National Integration President’s Award.
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Kaifi Azmi died on 10 May 2002 at the age of eighty-three. His survived by his wife, daughter, and son.
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