![]() ![]() 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. ![]()
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