   shakeel badayuni (hindi: à¤¶à¤à¥à¤² à¤¬à¤¦à¤¾à¤¯à¥à¤¨à¥, urdu: Ø´Ú©ÛÙ Ø¨Ø¯Ø§ÛÙÙÛ) (3 august 1916 â 20 april 1970) was an indian urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter in hindi films. ==early life== shakeel badayuni was born in badayun, uttar pradesh. his father, mohammed jamaal ahmed sokhta qadiri, wanted him to have a good career, thus he arranged arabic, urdu, persian, and hindi tuition for shakeel at home. his inclination towards poetry was not hereditary like other shayars. one of his distant relatives, zia-ul-qadiri badayuni, was a religious shayar. shakeel was influenced by him and the contemporary environment of badayun led him to sher-o-shayari. when he joined aligarh muslim university in 1936, he started participating in inter-college, inter-university mushairas and won frequently. in 1940, he married salma, who was his distant relative and had been living in a common house with him since childhood, however, the purdah system was vogue in their family and they were not close. after completing his ba, he moved to delhi as a supply officer, but continued participating in mushairas, earning fame nation-wide. those were the days of shayars who wrote about the downtrodden sections of society, their upliftment, the betterment of society and all. but shakeel had an altogether differen
1916_births 1970_deaths 20th-century_poets Aligarh_Muslim_University_alumni Filmfare_Awards_winners Indian_Muslims Indian_lyricists Indian_poets People_from_Budaun People_from_Uttar_Pradesh People_of_British_India Urdu_poets