Kaifi Azmi's 101st Birth Anniversary: Google Doodle pays a tribute to the legendary Urdu poet

Legendary Urdu poet Sayyid Athar Hussein Rizvi popularly known as Kaifi Azmi is celebrating his 101st birth anniversary today (January 14). Today commemorate the same, Google Doodle paid a tribute. Kaifi Azmi's popular works include Fan Aur Shaqsiyat, Kaifiyaat: Kulliyat-e-Kaifi Azmi, Zehr-e-Ishq. He has been bestowed with Sahitya Akademi Award for Awara Sajde in the year 1975. He also won National Film Award for Best Lyrics for Saat Hindustani in 1970.

For the uninitiated, Kaifi Azmi is the father of the veteran actor Shabana Azmi. She took to her Twitter page and shared happiness on her father getting featured on Google Doodle. Shabana Ji tweeted, "How absolutely wonderful ..Overwhelmed".

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Kaifi Azmi passed on May 10, 2002.

Earlier while talking about her father, Shabana Ji stated, "Kaifi Sahab was an optimist. He has been witness to different eras, but never once he lost his faith and that I think was his strength. Also, the defeat of an artiste is the defeat of society because these are the people who carry forward the hope of others."

The veteran actor went on to say, "Kaifi Sahab always considered himself as a worker. Born in Mijwan, Uttar Pradesh when he returned after 40 years and saw its sorry state of affairs, he did a lot of social work there. And so I think his life was quite successful."

She concluded by saying, "He was the protector of Urdu language through his lyrics in Bollywood films, especially after the fall of Urdu language post-partition. So most of his songs are actually poems."