
He used to work in the railway workshop at Parel.

Poetry was his first love but family situation forced him to take up a job of a railway mechanic. The origins of Chadh gayo paapi bichhua, Sajanwa bairi ho gaye hamar and Ab ke baras bhej bhaiya ko babul thus can be traced to this family back-ground. � Bihar cultural influence was to show later in his folk-style film songs. Later in his childhood their family moved to Mathura in U.P. Shailendra was born on August30, 1923 at Ravalpindi. His name was Shankardas Kesrilal Shailendra � for his countless admirers he was simply- Shailendra! But there was one penman in that golden era who remained a quintessential lyricist all throughout, who used almost all his literary genius for writing great songs which were poems in themselves and in my opinion, he was second to none. In a way all these glittering names belonged to poet-lyricists genre, who did their bit in films as well as in Hindi-Urdu literature.

Narendra Sharma and Kavi Pradeep enriched film music by penning film songs worthy of competing with best of their poems. Poets like Sahir Ludhianvi, Majrooh Sultanpuri, Shakeel Badyuni, Pt.

#Ramaiya vastavaiya song lyrics translation full
In an era where the top lyricists pat their backs in the full media-glare for writing something as mundane as Ik garam chai ki pyali ho, reviving memories of the times when film music had a dazzling array of great lyricists, has assumed even greater value.
