Ajeeb aadmi tha woh : kaifi azmi
Ajeeb aadmi tha woh
Mohabbaton ka geet tha,
bagaawaton ka rang tha
Kabhi woh sirf phool tha,
kabhi woh sirf aag tha
Ajeeb aadmi tha woh
Ajeeb Aadmi Tha Woh: Tributes paid to Kaifi Azmi
Lucknow, June 11: Kaifi Azmi was the common man’s poet. On the one hand, he wrote about the poorest of classes, narrating their suffering with extreme reality and on the other, he could also create dreams for those who loved romance in Urdu poetry. This was the opinion of the speakers at the seminar on Life and Contribution of Kaifi Azmi, organised by the Hindi Urdu Sahitya Award Committee at the Hotel Gemini Continental in the city on Sunday.
Speakers at the seminar included Kaifi’s daughter and actor Shabana Azmi, actor Farooque Sheikh and Governor of Haryana AR Kidwai. Speaking about the legendary poet, who, along with Hindi poet Ramkumar Verma is the theme of this year’s literary meet by the committee, actor Farooque Sheikh said that while a common man may take to poetry as a part-time hobby, for Kaifi, his poetry was his passion and his entire personality surrounded his passion.
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Sheikh said that it is this passion which made Kaifi’s poetry true to life and appealed to the masses.
Shabana Azmi too shared her opinion about her late father. Azmi said that Kaifi was a poet of all classes and to make his poems closer to reality, he preferred spending time with diffent types of people.
She said that Kaifi had always been close to his roots even in his poetry and this was the reason why during his last days, he got a school, a tailoring centre and a computer centre opened up at his village Mijwan in Azamgarh, which he wanted to develop as a model village. Shabana also read out a few lines penned by Kaifi and also poet Javed Akhtar’s couplet ‘Ajeeb aadmi tha woh’ dedicated to Kaifi Azmi.
Other speakers included the Governor of Haryana, AR Kidwai who said that he was amongst the lucky few who had managed to be in Kaifi’s company from 1941 to 1945 in Mumbai and would always cherish those days. He said that even today, whenever he reads Kaifi’s nazms, he feels the closeness and affinity he shared with the poet. Calling Kaifi a progressive writer and a socialist revolutionary, Kidwai said that Kaifi’s works promised to bring a change in society.
The head of the department of Urdu at Jamia Millia Islamia, Prof Qaziurrehman Qureshi also shared his views. Those present included theatre personality Salim Arif, but the absence of those associated with the Progressive Writers Association and IPTA as speakers was conspicious. The secretary of the Hindi Urdu Sahitya Awards Committee, Athar Nabi conducted the programme.
The three-day function will conclude with a seminar on Hindi poet Dr Ram Kumar Verma, which would be held at the Rai Umanath Bali Auditorium on Monday.
Mohabbaton ka geet tha,
bagaawaton ka rang tha
Kabhi woh sirf phool tha,
kabhi woh sirf aag tha
Ajeeb aadmi tha woh
Ajeeb Aadmi Tha Woh: Tributes paid to Kaifi Azmi
Lucknow, June 11: Kaifi Azmi was the common man’s poet. On the one hand, he wrote about the poorest of classes, narrating their suffering with extreme reality and on the other, he could also create dreams for those who loved romance in Urdu poetry. This was the opinion of the speakers at the seminar on Life and Contribution of Kaifi Azmi, organised by the Hindi Urdu Sahitya Award Committee at the Hotel Gemini Continental in the city on Sunday.
Speakers at the seminar included Kaifi’s daughter and actor Shabana Azmi, actor Farooque Sheikh and Governor of Haryana AR Kidwai. Speaking about the legendary poet, who, along with Hindi poet Ramkumar Verma is the theme of this year’s literary meet by the committee, actor Farooque Sheikh said that while a common man may take to poetry as a part-time hobby, for Kaifi, his poetry was his passion and his entire personality surrounded his passion.
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Sheikh said that it is this passion which made Kaifi’s poetry true to life and appealed to the masses.
Shabana Azmi too shared her opinion about her late father. Azmi said that Kaifi was a poet of all classes and to make his poems closer to reality, he preferred spending time with diffent types of people.
She said that Kaifi had always been close to his roots even in his poetry and this was the reason why during his last days, he got a school, a tailoring centre and a computer centre opened up at his village Mijwan in Azamgarh, which he wanted to develop as a model village. Shabana also read out a few lines penned by Kaifi and also poet Javed Akhtar’s couplet ‘Ajeeb aadmi tha woh’ dedicated to Kaifi Azmi.
Other speakers included the Governor of Haryana, AR Kidwai who said that he was amongst the lucky few who had managed to be in Kaifi’s company from 1941 to 1945 in Mumbai and would always cherish those days. He said that even today, whenever he reads Kaifi’s nazms, he feels the closeness and affinity he shared with the poet. Calling Kaifi a progressive writer and a socialist revolutionary, Kidwai said that Kaifi’s works promised to bring a change in society.
The head of the department of Urdu at Jamia Millia Islamia, Prof Qaziurrehman Qureshi also shared his views. Those present included theatre personality Salim Arif, but the absence of those associated with the Progressive Writers Association and IPTA as speakers was conspicious. The secretary of the Hindi Urdu Sahitya Awards Committee, Athar Nabi conducted the programme.
The three-day function will conclude with a seminar on Hindi poet Dr Ram Kumar Verma, which would be held at the Rai Umanath Bali Auditorium on Monday.
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