Young Anand Bakshi was sitting in actor Bhagwan Dada’s office looking for work, anxiously waiting for someone.
Anand Bakshi, an eye-opener in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi, moved to India after partition. When he stepped on the threshold of youth, he joined the army. He had a passion for writing since the beginning. When before a song was aired on the radio, it was said that such and such is the songwriter of such and such a song, then Anand Bakshi’s heart also felt the desire that one day his name would also be aired like that.
Because of writing poems and ghazals, someone suggested why not write songs in films? So he left the army job and reached Bombay.
Every filmmaker, director and musician searched the door but nothing came up. Many times he thought that he would go back to Delhi and start some small and big work, but his passion for songwriting got tangled in his feet like a chain.
One afternoon in 1956, he went to Bhagwan Dada to try his luck. Who was making the movie ‘Bhla Aadmi’.
Anand Bakshi dared to ask, ‘Who is Bhagavan Dada waiting for, why is he repeatedly looking at the gharial and the door?’
The reply was that the songwriter was supposed to come for his film but has not arrived yet. 28-year-old Anand Bakshi thought that this was the moment when he would have to do something. When he asked in a pleading tone, ‘If I write a song?’
Bhagwan Dada asked in an unsure tone, ‘Will you write it down?’
Anand Bakshi enthusiastically agreed. Bhagwan Dada thought for a while and then gave permission to Ananda Bakshi with a wink.
Four songs in one sitting
After getting ‘green signal’ from Bhagwan Dada, Anand Bakshi picked up a pen and paper and sat in the corner and started writing songs. After a few hours of hard work, he wrote four songs in one sitting. When God put it in front of Dada, the first question he asked was ‘Have you really written this?’
Encouraged by Nisar Bazmi
Nisar Bazmi was there to compose music for Bhagwan Dada’s film ‘Bhala Aadmi’. When he was confronted by Anand Bakshi, he encouraged him on the songs. Nisar Bazmi composed such heart touching tunes that the value of Anand Bakshi increased in the eyes of Bhagwan Dada. In particular, Anand Bakshi’s song ‘Dharti Ke Lal Kar Ethan Malal’ became very famous.
Anand Bakshi used to say that I am not a poet but a film lyricist (Creative Commons).
After that, Anand Bakshi would write the songs for most of Bhagwan Dada’s films. The lyricist was always grateful to the upcoming musician Nisar Bazmee, who gave Anand Bakshi a foothold in the film industry by doing justice to his lyrics in his very first film. This is the reason why he used to mention Nisar Bazmi in every interview.
Sunil Dutt’s recommendation leave
Lyricist Anand Bakshi was still looking for a big opportunity that would catapult him to the heights of fame. For this purpose, day and night, he used to go round the office of the filmmakers.
Meanwhile, Sunil Dutt, who was also his distant relative, understood Anand Bakshi’s compulsion and sent a letter of recommendation written by himself to Raj Kapoor. Raj Kapoor did not even have time to meet Anand Bakshi, but his secretary Harin Khera found Anand Bakshi’s songs attractive.
He promised that if he ever became a producer, he would definitely give Anand Bakshi a chance. Then it happened in 1962, when Hiran Khera made the film Mehndi Lagi Mere Haat Mein, with Anand Bakshi writing the lyrics. C
When the songs of this film resonated everywhere, Anand Bakshi got the opportunity to write songs for ‘Kala Samudran’ and ‘Hmala Ki Gud Main’ as well.
But Anand Bakshi truly gained recognition with the 1965 musical romantic film ‘Jab Jab Phool Khale’. Anand Bakshi’s songs ‘Pardesiyan Se Ne Ankhian Milana’, ‘Ek Tha Gul Aur Ek Thi Bulbul’, ‘Na Nah Karte Pyaar Tumke Se’ and ‘Yeh Samman Samman Hai Pyaar Ka’ have made him popular everywhere. But what happened after that, Anand Bakshi did not look back.
Most nominations
Among the songwriters Sahir Ludhianvi, Majrho Sultanpuri, Anjan, Shailander, Hasrat Jaipuri, Raja Mehdi Ali Khan, Andivar, Jaan Nisar Akhtar, Keefi Azmi, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar and others, Anand Bakshi carved his own unique and untouched space. His lyrics were very simple and easy.
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He used to say that he would not use poetry in the songs but the language used in the film of the hero and heroine. Anand Bakshi said that he is not a poet but a film lyricist. Anand Bakshi is the Indian lyricist who has been nominated for the most Filmfare Awards 41 times, the streak started from 1968 but Anand Bakshi got the award for the first time in 1979 for a song like ‘Aadmi Musafar Hai’.
He then won the award for ‘Ek Doje Ke Le,’ ‘Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge’ and ‘Taal’.
Those who became like that
Anand Bakshi, in the background of writing the song ‘Saawan Ka Mahina Paon Kare Soor’ for the film ‘Mulan’, said that when he and composer Lakshmi Kant stopped to eat Pyare Lal Paan, a man was calling ‘Shoor’ a ‘pig’. , that’s where he got the idea for the word.
Similarly, in 1970, when Lakshmi Kant Pyarelal and Anand Bakshi could not compose the lyrics for ‘On Milu Sajna’ despite a million attempts, Anand Bakshi, exhausted, said, ‘Well, let’s go.’
In response, Lakshmi Kant said, ‘Then when will you meet?’ The song was created just from these bold dialogues.
Anand Bakshi is also criticized for laying the foundation of Bollywood songs by writing ‘Choli ke Zahar’ for the film ‘Khal Naik’, but he did not consider the song to be commercial or generic.
According to him, if this song was like that, he would not have been nominated for the best lyricist and similarly singer Alka Yagang would not have won the award for the same song. While director Mahesh Bhatt was making his mother’s film ‘Zakham’, Anand Bakshi was writing the song. Asked Mahesh Bhatt when his father used to come home to meet his mother. Mahesh Bhatt replied in English, ‘Once in the blue moon’, just what happened, Anand Bakshi sat there and wrote a song called ‘Gali Mein Aaj Chand Nikla’ on that one sentence.
When Javed Akhtar asked for a pen to write the song
Songwriter Javed Akhtar says that in 1974, when he heard the song of the film ‘Aap Ki Kaas’ in ‘Zindagi Ke Safar’, he was lost in every single word of it. When I met Anand Bakshi at an event, I asked him to give me the pen with which he had written this song as a gift.
On this Anand Bakshi said, I cannot give you this pen because it was gifted to me by Asha Bhonsle, but I will definitely give you the pen.
The next day Javed Akhtar found a precious pen in a beautiful packaging, which he has kept safe with him till date.
The songs of Anand Bakshi, who left the world on March 30, 2002, have been sung by more or less every singer. Someone objected to Anand Bakshi, who wrote more than 3500 film songs, that he wrote the best songs only for directors like Shakti Samantha, Yash Chopra and Subhash Ghai, to which Anand Bakshi said that these directors The cars gave them good romantic and emotional stories, gave them sativashan, which after listening to them, more and more goosebumps and guts started coming out of me.
Ten representative songs of Anand Bakshi
- Spark no flame: Immortal Prem
- When did I think that the moon, my beloved, died: in the arms of the Himalayas
- Blank Paper Tha Ye Man Meera: Blank paper
- What will you do with my photo?: Black Sea
- Well, here we go: On Meet Sajna
- If you see it, you will know it: Those who have heart will take the bride
- This is our enemy: the beloved’s henna
- Roop Tera Mastana Pyaar Mera Diwana: Aradhana
- These silken tresses, these syrupy eyes: two ways
- This evening Mastani should be drunk: Kati Patang
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