India Celebrates 96th Birthday Of Anand Bakshi, A Renowned Bollywood Lyricist

Anees Ahmed (@Aneesah05582539) Published July 21, 2016 | 03:47 PM

Mumbai,(UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 21st july, 2016) : A renowned bollywood songs lyricist Anand Bukshi's birthday is being celebrated all over the India. The name, Anand Bakshi is familiar to Hindi film lovers both young and old.

In a career spanning several decades, Anand Bakshi penned some of the most memorable songs that has ever been produced by the Hindi film industry.In the span of a very successful career, Anand Bakshi worked in at least 300 films with Laxmikant Pyarelal, almost a 100 films with R D Burman, more than 30 films with Kalyanji & Anandji and a couple of films with new age music composers Anu Malik and Rajesh Roshan.

Anand Bakshi received a record breaking 40 nominations for lyrics written for Hindi films.

He has a total of four Filmfare Awards for the best lyricist to his name: 'Aadmi Musafir Hai’ for Apnapan in the year 1977 'Tere Mere Beech’ for Ek Duuje Ke Liye in 1981 'Tujhe Dekha’ for Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge in the year 1995 'Ishq Bina’ for Taal in 1999 Anand Bakshi was 81 years of age at the time of his death.