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Biography
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Kaifi Azmi
Real name: Akhtar Hussein Rizvi
Effective period / Period of releases: 1964 - 2004
Akhtar Hussein Rizvi, known as Kaifi Azmi, (14 January 1919 – 10 May 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet. He is remembered as the one who brought Urdu literature to Indian motion pictures. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jon Elia and others he participated in the most memorable mushairas of the twentieth century.