Anwar Farrukhabadi Explained

Anwar Farrukhabadi
Pseudonym:	Fana
Birth Date:	19 July 1928^[1]
Occupation:	Sufi poet

Anwar Farrukhabadi (Urdu: انور فرخ آبادی; Hindi: अनवर फर्रुखाबाद), also known as "Fana (Urdu: فنا)", was a Sufi poet from Farrukhabad district in India.^[2] He is known as a lyricist of Ghazal, songs, poems and Qawaali.

Work

He also wrote Marsiya (مرثیہ) and Mashhoor Daastan Hai Shahadat Hussain Ki (مشہور داساتاں ہے شہادت حسینؑ کی), sung by Shamshad Begum and Yusuf Ad. His ghazal Yeh jo halka halka saroor hai^[3] has been renditioned by various artists including Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Farhan Saeed and featured in the Hindi movie Fanney Khan.

Farrukhabadi died in Farrukhabad on June 29, 2011.^[4]

Filmography

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Year^[5]	Title	Credited as
1982		Lyricist
1963		Lyricist
1961		Lyricist
1959		Lyricist

Notes and References

1. Web site: Yesteryear lyricist Anwar Farrukhabadi is dead .
2. Web site: MODERN . 2012-02-16 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20090728231038/http://farrukhabad.nic.in/modern.htm . 2009-07-28 .
3. News: Tejaswini Pandit has become a shayara. Chaturvedi. Vinita. 17 Feb 2018. 8 Aug 2018. The Times of India. The Times Group. "These lines do remind you of Sufi poet Anwar Farrukhabadi’s famous ghazal… ‘Yeh jo halka halka suroor hai, sab teri nazar ka kusoor hai ..". dmy-all.
4. Web site: Yesteryear lyricist Anwar Farrukhabadi is dead . 2020-09-02. news.rediff.com. en.
5. Web site: Anwar Farrukhabadi . .