That love, shared by Kaifi and wife/actor Shaukat Azmi, finds resonance in her relationship with husband/writer Javed Akhtar. “I am deeply in love with Javed even 37 years after we got married ...

Kaifi Azmi, hailing from Mijwan, a small village in Uttar Pradesh, was only 15-years-old when he came to Bombay. Though born in a well-to-do family, Azmi was always inclined towards the welfare of ...

They first met at her father, Kaifi Azmi's house. Javed was earlier married to Honey Irani and has two children, Farhan Akhtar and Zoya Akhtar, from his first marriage.

Kaifi Azmi, born Sayyid Athar Hussein Rizvi on January 14, 1919, in Uttar Pradesh, wrote his first poem when he was 11 years old. He later became one of India's most respected poets and passed ...

Shabana Azmi on her dear father and great poet, thinker Kaifi Azmi They say a father is a girl’s first hero, that larger-than-life character, who is her window to the world outside and the world ...

In their inimitable style, Shabana Azmi and Javed Akhtar took the audience through a very personal journey and shared moments that will be cherished for a lifetime. This included Shaukat and Kaifi ...

Kaifi Azmi was a poet and a comrade, a communist who lived in a room allotted to him by the party at the Red Flag House. As she grew older, Shabana could relate to the struggles and ideologies of ...

Noted Urdu poet-lyricist Kaifi Azmi (1919--2002) had a long association with Madanpura, once the bustling hub of textile mills, in Central Mumbai. Mijwan in Azamgarh (UP) was Kaifi's janambhoomi ...

Kaifi Azmi Directed by Feroz Abbas Khan, the first show kicks off on January 13 at NCPA in Mumbai, followed by a show for Mijwan [an NGO supported by the Azmi family] on January 14.

An emotional Shabana Azmi has shared her mom Shaukat Kaifi's pic and tweeted that after the latter died, everything went wrong. Shabana met with an accident, and soon, the world was hit by a pandemic.

Akhtar said that Kaifi Azmi was a torchbearer for all these values which were manifested in the spirit of the Progressive Writers’ Movement of the 1930s. He said that the man, who ultimately ...