Cinemaazi remembers Nakshab Jarchavi on his 100th birth anniversay

Poet, lyricist, writer and director, Nakshab Jarchavi was born in Jarcha, Uttar Pradesh on 12 July, 1925. After graduating from Aligarh Muslim University, he moved to Bombay. A poet and lyricist par excellence, he went on to give Hindi cinema many popular songs from the mid-40s till the early 50s. He wrote the lyrics for the qawwali Aahein na bhareen shikway na kiye, kuchh bhi na zaban se kaam liya for the Eastern Pictures film Zeenat (1945). It was rendered by the powerful trio of female singers, Noor Jehan, Zohrabai Ambalewali and Amirbai Karnataki. 

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