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Sunday, February 28, 2021

Remembering writer poet and lyricist Pandit Narendra Sharma 1913-89


Source:Wikipedia
Pandit Narendra Sharma (28 February 1913 – 12 February 1989) was an Indian writer, poet and lyricist in Hindi language. He also wrote some songs for Indian Hindi cinema, like the title song for Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1979), for which he also received a Filmfare Award nomination for Best Lyricist.

Life and career
Pandit Narendra Sharma was born in Jahangirpur near Khurja (now in Gautam Buddha Nagar district) Uttar Pradesh. He did his undergraduate program and M.A in English Literature at Allahabad University. Lata Mangeshkar the singer used to address him as her father while she was addressed as his daughter. In a documentary on Lata Mangeshkar produced and directed by Nasreen Munni Kabir for Britain's Channel 4 the singer has confessed that she learned a lot from pandithji and could negotiate many difficulties of life based on his advice.

He published Abyudhay newspaper in 1934. He wrote songs for the movie, Aandhiyan. He was founder of Vividh Bharati Seva of All India Radio.

Sharma wrote for more than hundred films and worked with almost all major music directors and singers. He was also the conceptual adviser of the popular TV Series Mahabharat, for which too he wrote songs. This was his last work, and on 12 February 1989, four months after the show went on-air, he died aged 76.

The following are some of the poems written by Narendra Sharma
Kahani Kehte Kehte
Paniharin
Rathwan
Swagatham
Filmography
Hamari Baat (1943)
Satyam Shivam Sundaram (1978)
Aandhiyan (1952)
Narasinha Avatar (1949)
Matwala Shair (1947)
Bhabhi Ki Chudiyan (1961)
Malti Madhav (1951)
Jwar Bhata (1944)

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