The eternal realist, Hasrat Jaipuri told me how lucky he was to have married a woman who advised him to invest his earnings in property. He then called me for three songs for Henna, but after Rajsaab's death, the music director conspired to scrap them and replace them with his own lyrics.” This was the only time I found Hasrat Jaipuri bitter: “They were my last link with Raj Kapoor and RK,” he said, his voice brimming with a queer mix of anger, grief and resignation. But I was back with 'Sun sahiba sun' which Rajsaab told me to write to one of his own tunes which he had used as the English song 'I love you' in Sangam. That did not work out because someone recommended Amir Qazalbash to Rajsaab. But he wanted to call me back for Prem Rog. I was happy that he left us to go to the only other great team in our films - Laxmikant Pyarelal and Anand Bakshi. “After Jai's death and the failures of Mera Naam Joker and Kal Aaj Aur Kal, Rajsaab changed his music team. The second was 'Chhod gaye baalam', my first song with Jaikishan, and my first duet.” My first recorded song was 'Jiya beqaraar hai' tuned by Shanker.

'We met at the canteen of the Royal Opera House where Prithvirajji used to stage his plays, and Rajji signed me for Barsaat. The late Prithviraj Kapoor heard his verse and recommended him to his son Raj Kapoor who was planning a musical love story with two new composers, Shanker - Jaikishan. In Mumbai, Hasrat Jaipuri took the secure job of a bus conductor and satiated his creative urges by participating in mushairas. My love was silent, but I wrote a poem for her, `Yeh mera prem patra padh kar, ke tum naaraaz na hona.’” And that 'letter' may never have been delivered to Radha, but Raj Kapoor was to later deliver it to the world as the perennial mantra for lovers of all generations in his Sangam (1964). “It is not at all necessary that a Muslim boy must fall in love only with a Muslim girl.

“Love knows no mazhab or dharam,” he told me. He began writing verse as late as the age of 20, and around that time, he fell in love with a neighborhood girl called Radha. Till 1939, he lived in hometown Jaipur where he studied English till 'medium level' and then acquired his 'taalim' in Urdu and Persian from his learned grandfather, Fida Husain. Hasrat Jaipuri's real name was Iqbal Husain.

Bewafa shayari in english