Thursday, July 27, 2017

He was (Pr)adeeply nationalistic Kavi

It can’t merely be a coincidence that Kavi Pradeep’s* nom de plume has seven letters and patriot is a word that has the same number of letters.

The two are synonymous too, as is evident from the fact that he penned and sang Aao Bachchon Tumhe Dikhaayen Jhanki Hindustan Ki from the 1954 film Jagriti.

And isn’t it appropriate that the composer’s (Hemant Kumar) first name is an anagram of anthem?

(*Note: Pradeep means light. He couldn’t have adopted a better pseudonym, because he was a leading light in the worlds of poetry and lyrics.)

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