Anwar Farrukhabadi

Anwar Farrukhabadi
Born	(1928-07-19)19 July 1928[1]
Died	29 June 2011(2011-06-29) (aged 82)[1]
Pen name	Fana
Occupation	Sufi poet

Anwar Farrukhabadi (Urdu: انور فرخ آبادی; Hindi: अनवर फर्रुखाबाद), also known as "Fana (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.^{[citation needed]} 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 29 June 2011.^[4]

Filmography

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Year[5]	Title	Credited as
1982	Dil Hi Dil Mein	Lyricist
1963	Holiday in Bombay	Lyricist
1961	Room No.17	Lyricist
1959	Bank Manager	Lyricist

References

1. "Yesteryear lyricist Anwar Farrukhabadi is dead".
2. "MODERN". Archived from the original on 28 July 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
3. Chaturvedi, Vinita (17 February 2018). "Tejaswini Pandit has become a shayara". The Times of India. The Times Group. Retrieved 8 August 2018. 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 ..
4. "Yesteryear lyricist Anwar Farrukhabadi is dead". news.rediff.com. Retrieved 2 September 2020.
5. "Anwar Farrukhabadi". IMDb.