Word has it that it was in a mushaira that legendary Bollywood actor Prithviraj Kapoor took note of the poetry composed by Hasrat Jaipuri and took the first step towards introducing him to the world of Hindi films. Therefore, Hasrat Jaipuri was in regular touch with the first love of his life, poetry. Hasrat Jaipuri was a regular face in some of the most famous mushairas (a place where Urdu poets used to gather to share with each other their individual compositions) of Bombay during the 1940s. However, he also made sure that enough time was given towards the practice of poetry. After traveling from Jaipur and settling in Bombay in the year 1940 with his wife Radha, Hasrat Jaipuri took up occupation as a bus conductor, earning a paltry sum of Rs. Hasrat Jaipuri began his career by selling tickets in local buses of Bombay. He was deeply aware of the fact that he would die soon, therefore as long as he is in this world, he believed it was his duty to spread love and cheer all over. According to him, he was a вЂshayarвЂ™ who existed in the world to fill each empty space with love. All his writings reflected this sentiment of Hasrat Jaipuri. Hasrat Jaipuri thought of himself as a messenger whose main motive was to spread love through his work. Hasrat Jaipuri felt that both the Hindi and Urdu languages complement each other and one is incomplete without the other. It was these two languages that found predominant use in his writings. He wrote several poems, which were later published in his books of poetry in Hindi and Urdu. Hasrat Jaipuri was equally popular as a poet and a lyricist. Hasrat Jaipuri had famously said in an interview that he never expected his love to be reciprocated by Radha, and yet he loved her dearly. Hasrat Jaipuri was a die hard romantic who was of the opinion that love should not be categorized by religion and castes. The line was immortalized almost twenty years later in a Hindi song filmed on the Bollywood heartthrob, Raj Kapoor in his film вЂSangamвЂ™. вЂњYeh Mera Prem Patra Padh Kar, Ke Tum Naaraaz Na HonaвЂќ was one of the most famous lines found in his love letter to Radha. The two fell in love when Hasrat Jaipuri had started writing his own poems in Urdu, Persian and also Hindi. Many of his verses were composed for the love of his life Radha, a Hindu girl residing in Jaipur. He not only learnt the two languages of Urdu and Persian, he also composed several verses in both languages. By this time, Hasrat Jaipuri was already a young man of 20. Hasrat JaipuriвЂ™s grandfather Fida Husain was his chief tutor for both the languages. It was later that Iqbal Husain received the title of Hasrat Jaipuri and also started his education in Urdu and Persian languages. Iqbal Husain was educated in only English language during the initial years of his schooling. Iqbal spent his entire childhood in the city of his birth, Jaipur, before shifting to Bombay where he received the best rewards for his talent of poem and song writing. Hasrat Jaipuri was born as Iqbal Husain in a Muslim family of Rajasthan on April 15, 1922. Once a bus conductor by profession, little did the world know then that there was so much talent hidden within Hasrat Jaipuri, who may be referred to as a вЂshayarвЂ™ in Indian society. Born in a Muslim family of Rajasthan in India, poetry was a part of Hasrat JaipuriвЂ™s life from the early years of his childhood. His poetry and film compositions reflected an amalgamation of both Hindi and Urdu. A poet who composed lines in Urdu, Persian and Hindi, he went on to become one of the most popular lyricists that the Hindi film industry in India has ever seen. Nationality:В IndianHasrat Jaipuri is one of those celebrated poets who have gone down as immortal in the history of Hindi film songs.

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