Sahir Ludhianvi
Sahir Ludhianvi Refused To Work With Laxmikant-Pyarelal
Here’s why the great poet Sahir Ludhianvi refused to work with Bollywood’s most successful music composers Laxmikant-Pyarelal after a hit score for Yash Chopra.The film was Yash Chopra’s Daag in 1973, his first film as an independent producer-director after he broke away from his brother B R Chopra. Yashji wanted only the best for Daag. He signed the reigning superstar Rajesh Khanna with Sharmila Tagore and Raakhee Gulzar. He signed the most successful composers of the 1970s Laxmikant-Pyarelal to do the music,and the great Sahir Ludhianvi to do the poetry. L-P had worked | Click Here...
The One Role That Irrfan Khan Was Dying To Play
Irrfan’s career shows an impressively wide arc. He played everything from a dacoit to a student leader. But the one role that he craved to play was that of poet and lyricist Sahir Ludhianvi. Irrfan had a strange and enduring fascination for Sahir Saab’s poetry and when he heard a film on the life of Sahir Ludhianvi was being planned by producer Sanjay Leela Bhansali he was for the first time, openly covetous, for a part. “Only I can play Sahir Ludhianvi,” Irrfan told me. “I have been researching on his life and poetry forever. I know the rarest of his songs.” | Click Here...