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Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

- Javed Akhtar
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Generally, we tend to believe that royalty is only for mainstream Hindi commercial cinema music and maybe some popular ghazal singer or pop singer but we never think that classical music is played at so many places.

Words are a strange thing. You once saw an animal and decided it's a 'cat.' But cat is a sound. This cat has nothing to do with the animal. But I have decided it's a cat. So a cat it is.

By the time I was 12, I had memorised hundreds of couplets. I could recite for hours poems written by others. I knew I could write a line in metre. But I never dared to do it till I was 33 years old.

Indian cinema is changing not because of outside pressure but because of inside pressure. Society is changing. Obviously, ideas change because of globalization, because of the huge middle class that is mostly first generation.

Very rarely does a mainstream film push the envelope. A film that's so-called mainstream and questions certain norms, certain notions of morality, and gets away with it opens doors. It means the common man, the majority of the people, have accepted it.

You have to write some poetry, first of all, to decide if you can become a lyricist. I was born in a family of poets.

Words are not thoughts, just like bricks are not homes. But houses are made with bricks. If you have less bricks, you will make a small house. The more words you have, the clearer your thoughts, and the more clearly you can convey them.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

I genuinely believe that people who are in their 20s and 30s understand certain things that I don't. I have a lot to offer to them and vice-versa.

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Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.

Faiz Ahmed Faiz was like a leading star of the progressive writers who emerged in undivided India.