1. Anand Bakshi won Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist 4 times during his career.
14 Facts About Anand Bakshi
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Anand Bakshi wrote over 6000 film songs in more than 300 films.
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Anand Bakshi was born in Rawalpindi in the Punjab Province of British India, on 21 July 1930 into a Mohyal Brahmin family of the Vaid clan.
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Anand Bakshi continued to write poetry whenever time permitted, and used his songs and lyrics in local programmes related to his troops.
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Anand Bakshi worked in the Navy for many years and simultaneously tried to market his songs in the Mumbai film world.
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Anand Bakshi came to Hindi films to make a name for himself in writing and singing, but ended up becoming more successful in writing lyrics.
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Anand Bakshi got his first break writing songs in a Brij Mohan film titled Bhalaa Aadmi, acted by Bhagwan Dada.
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Anand Bakshi was paid a sum of 150 rupees for four songs.
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Anand Bakshi wrote four songs in this film for music director Nisar Bazmi.
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Anand Bakshi was preferred lyricist by Rajesh Khanna for films with Rajesh Khanna in the lead.
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Anand Bakshi went on to work as a lyricist of over 6000 songs in more than 300 films in his career.
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Anand Bakshi sang the solo "Main dhoondh raha tha sapnon mein" from the same film.
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Anand Bakshi is known to have worked with more than one generation of music composers.
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Anand Bakshi died there due to multiple organ failure on 30 March 2002, at the age of 71.