Have there been any female lyricists ?
I can’t think of any.


Come to think of it, I can only think of only Usha Khanna as the only female MD, were/are there any more?


Lets list.

Thanks
Iqbal

MD : Saraswati Devi in the 1930s. Then there was (or is) a lyricist by the name of Maya Govind (remember "kabuutar jaa jaa jaa"...and If I'm not mistaken "chaRh gayaa uupar re aTariyaa pe loTan kabuutar re")

SABA AFGHANI she wrote very good gazals
infact RAFI SAHAB sang her gazal
its a luvly gazal

"maine jabse tujhe aye jan e ghazal" (saba afghani)


i got few lady lyricist from RAFI SAHAB's webite

1) Nache Nache Yeh Man Mora
Film Name: Dhoop Chhaon (1954)
Year: 1954
Singer(s) Mohd Rafi Asha Bhonsle
Lyricist: Arshi Ajmeri
Musician(s): Azeez Hindi


2) Mohd Rafi With Lyricist Tulsi
Total Records : 5 Displaying From 0 To 5

Track Name Film Name Year
Dhamak Dhamak Dham Dholak Baaje Ahimsa 1979

Dukh Sukh Dono..Tujeh Kyon Samaj Bhakti Mein Shakti 1978

Ek Daal Par Toota Bole Chor Machaye Shor 1974

Jag Tere Charanon Mein Aayo Bhakti Mein Shakti 1978

Maa Hai Jyotawaliye.. Maa Tere Darbaar Bhakti Mein Shakti 1978


3) Khamosh Zindagi
Film Name: Naag Mandir
Year: 1966
Singer(s) Mohd Rafi
Lyricist: Saroj Mohini Nayyar
Musician(s): Laxmikant Pyarelal

4) Singer Mohd Rafi With Lyricist Saba Afghani
Total Records : 12 Displaying From 0 To 12

Track Name Film Name Year
Badi Mushqil Se Sache Ka Bol Bala 1958

Dil Dhadka Mein Fadka Halla Gulla 1955

Dil Pukaare Aana Na Tadapana Halla Gulla 1955

Hone Wali Hoke Rahegi… Gavo Ek Tarana Halla Gulla 1955

Jis Ka Palla Badi Dekh Kal Kya Hoga (1958) 1958

Koyi Tirchi Nazar Se… Teri Bhi Chup Halla Gulla 1955

Main Hoon Banka Chhabila Halla Gulla 1955

Maine Jab Se Tujeh Non-Filmi Ghazals

Nainon Ke Teer Jidhar Toot Pade Halla Gulla 1955

O Gori Gaal Pe Sache Ka Bol Bala 1958

Yun Bekhudi Se Kaam Non-Filmi Ghazals

Yun Na Chhedo Balam Halla Gulla 1955


5) Singer Mohd Rafi With Lyricist Vandana Vitankar
Total Records : 8 Displaying From 0 To 8

Track Name Film Name Year
Darya Geet Non-Filmi

Haa Chand Jiwala Laavi Non-Filmi

Haa Ruswa Soda Sake Non-Filmi

Hey Mana Aaz Koni Bag Non-Filmi

Khel Tuza Nyaara Non-Filmi

Nako Arathi Ki Nako Non-Filmi

Shodhishi Manawa Non-Filmi

Virale Geet Kaase Non-Filmi

6) Singer Mohd Rafi With Lyricist Pilibheeti
Total Records : 3 Displaying From 0 To 3

Track Name Film Name Year

Ay Dil Tujhe Ke Neend Na Shehenaz 1948

Nazaaron Se Kheloon Bahaaron Se Shehenaz 1948

Tere Nazadeek Aate Hein Naa Tujhse Shehenaz

7) Singer Mohd Rafi With Lyricist Nida Fazli
Total Records : 4 Displaying From 0 To 4

Track Name Film Name Year
Are Paise Ka Khel Nirala Biwi O Biwi 1981

Chand Saa Chehera Raat Si Zulphen Gehra Zakham 1981

Gulon Ke Rang Salaam-E-Mohobbat

Tera Noor Sitaaron Mein Harjaai 1981

8) Mujeh Tumse Mohobbat Hai Ay
Film Name: Shehenaz
Year: 1948
Singer(s) Mohd Rafi Ameer Bai
Lyricist: Fiza Kausari
Musician(s): Ameer Bai Karnataki


there could be many lady lyricists


infact MEENA KUMARI wrote and even sang a number

Nida Fazli is not a woman. His full name is Muqtida Hasan Nida Fazli and he looks like this:
Click to view attachment

omg

sorry for that even i thought twice but then i decided that sum1 gonna correct it

there r few more names in RAFI SAHAB's forum that sound like female.

Neither "Tulsi" is a female. We all know he is Inderjit Singh 'Tulsi'.

Maya Govind is of course a female who wrote some hit numbers like


Naino main darpan hai darpan main koyi....Aarop

Jab se tumne bansi bajaai re...Aarop

Yahan kaun hai asli kaun hai naqli......Qaid

O laila o laila tere pyar main majnu rota hai....Aafat

Then there is Rani Malik who wrote songs for Aashiqui and Baazigar

Some more:
1. Sudha Malhotra was MD for some movie, don't remember which one though.

2. Indu Jain wrote lyrics for Chashm-e-baddoor and a few other Sai Paranjpe movies

3. Kishori Amonkar was MD for Drishti

4. Ila Arun was MD for Govind Nihalani's Rukmavati Ki Haveli

5. Khursheed Hallauri wrote lyrics for Parinda and Market. If you're wondering who this is, remember this wonderful Ashaji-Suresh Wadkar number:

pyaar ke mod pe chhodoge jo baahein merii
tumko DhuunDhengii zamaane mein, nigaahein merii


If you move outside the realm of HFM, Bhanumathi was a prolific singer/composer/lyricist for telugu movies. Lata mangeshkar composed in Marathi under the name of "Anandghan".

Bibhas it is said that during the making of the film "Didi", the music director N. Dutta fell ill and the track was needed urgently. Young Sudha Malhotra was the singer. She stepped in and took over. She composed that marvelous piece ‘Tum Mujhe Bhool Bhi Jao to ye haque hai tumko...meri baat aur hai maine to mohabbat ki hai.
Such beautiful was the melody that even the great Mukeshji could not resist singing that one.

Usha Khanna compoed music for a number of films and was very successful.

Dil deka dekho was her first movie. She also composed for Hum Hindustani.

Ramesh.

In Samrat Chandragupta-1958 under the baton Of KA there was a beautiful song
penned by none other then our yesteryear Heroine and modern day Mama-Nirupa Roy.

the song-Mujhe Dekh Chand Sharmaye

cinemaniac2

Bibhas,
Do you've the songs from RUKMAVATI KI HAVELI?

There was also a female MD by the name of Suman Jagdish Raj
who set tunes for the films Jeevan Rekha (1974) and Teen Sardar

Yaar mere meri bahon mein aaja by Rafi Saab from the film Jeevan Rekha
Suman JR even gave playback in the film Teen Sardar


Regards

PS. anymore info about her is welcome

Thanks friends,

That’s been very informative

[quote=humble_rafi,Jun 9 2005, 11:17 PM]
SABA AFGHANI she wrote very good gazals
infact RAFI SAHAB sang her gazal
its a luvly gazal

"maine jabse tujhe aye jan e ghazal" (saba afghani)


i got few lady lyricist from RAFI SAHAB's webite

1) Nache Nache Yeh Man Mora
Film Name: Dhoop Chhaon (1954)
Year: 1954
Singer(s) Mohd Rafi Asha Bhonsle
Lyricist: Arshi Ajmeri
Musician(s): Azeez Hindi


2) Mohd Rafi With Lyricist Tulsi
Total Records : 5 Displaying From 0 To 5

Track Name Film Name Year
Dhamak Dhamak Dham Dholak Baaje Ahimsa 1979

Dukh Sukh Dono..Tujeh Kyon Samaj Bhakti Mein Shakti 1978

Ek Daal Par Toota Bole Chor Machaye Shor 1974

Jag Tere Charanon Mein Aayo Bhakti Mein Shakti 1978

Maa Hai Jyotawaliye.. Maa Tere Darbaar Bhakti Mein Shakti 1978


3) Khamosh Zindagi
Film Name: Naag Mandir
Year: 1966
Singer(s) Mohd Rafi
Lyricist: Saroj Mohini Nayyar
Musician(s): Laxmikant Pyarelal


Saroj Mohini Nayyar is related to composer O.P. Nayyar. She even penned down the famous song- 'preetam aan milo dukhiya jiya bulaye preetam aan milo.'
As far as female composers are concerned, both the melody queens Lata Mangeshkar and Noor Jehan have composed some songs and done a decent job.

Alybaba,
Sorry but I don't have them. I have been looking for a while without success.
Aapke chaalees choron se kahiye kahiin se chura laye
Bibhas

Hey guys!!!!
Don't you think you are overlooking the BIGGEST female MD of all?
(or did someone mention and I overlooked it?)

LATA MANGESHKAR!!!!

She composed music under the pseudonym of Anandghan (the cloud of happiness)

1)Saba Afghani was by all accounts a male lyricist. (Manek Premchand in his book describes him a "he" Saba is a common female name...but remember Saba Karim the former Indian Wicketkeeper?

2)Tulsi is also a name used by both men and women. And as someone has already pointed it out this particular perosn was a guy. Arshi too is name which is used both by girls and guys.

3)If the details of this Naag Mandir song are correct, this is very very interesting indeed! Because O P Nayyar has mentioned it time and again that the lyrics he wrote under the pseudonym of his wife (Saroj Mohini Nayyar) was primarily for the reason that he could collect the payment...both for music as well as lyrics. He also mentions that his wife did not have any interest, nor the skills to write lyrics. That's why if Saroj Mohini Nayyar has written for L-P, it means that either OPN was not speaking the truth about his wife's talents or OP Nayyar wrote the lyrics for L-P in the same year when he got the lyrics of his own films made that year by varied people such as :Aziz Kashmiri, P.L. Santoshi,Kaifi Azmi, Shevan Rizvi, Anjaan, S H Bihari & Raja Mehdi Ali Khan. Both these scenarios seem highly unlikely.

4)Pilibheeti? which Pilibheeti. Pilibheet is a town in Uttar Pradesh. If Pilibheeti is a lady lyricist so could be (Majrooh) Sultanpuri, (Kaifi) Azmi, (S H) Bihari, (Shakeel) Badayuni and (Sahir) Ludhiyanvi.

5)Nida Fazli is of course a very accomplished Urdu poet.

I think all of us should be a little careful before passing off assumptions as facts.

Asad

Humble Bhai, I think Pilibheeti is name of some place,
city/town. Two names come to mind : Anjam Pilibheeti
and Nazim Philibeeti. Can't say about the gender of
AP but NP was male. He was brother of producer, director,
lyricist etc Wali Sahib.

Never known that Maya govind is a female....also never known also that rani malik is female. Is she family of Verma Malik?? Maya Govind wrote also the title song of the movie: Yeh rishtaa na toote (1981). can anyone help me?

Singer Sharda too has written lyrics for some of Shankar Jaikishen's work

Ragini Da, Maya Govind, Reema Lagoo, Mena Kumari, Zohra, Rani Malik, Pamella Johar...many more

Bibhas,
Mere 40 chor to matkon mein hi jal gaye aur main RUKMAWATI KI HAVELI ke darwaaze pe khade hokar kab se keh raha hoon "KHUL JAA SIM SIM" lekin koi result nahiin!!

Meerabai?

A bona fide addition to the the list of female lyricists: Padma Sachdev, the Dogri poet, wrote the lyrics for at least two songs from "Prem Parbat":

- ye neer kahaan se barase hain
- mera chhotaasaa gharabaar

Great lyrics in the first one.

Warm regards,
Abhay

some years ago I used to think Bulo C Rani was a Female.

any idea what is his full name. The poor guy died of self immolation. What a tragic death?

sad!

no idea about his name -but his claim to fame was I guess-Jogan1948/49

His best known compostion is the qwali HAMEN TO LOOT LIYA MILKE HUSN WALON NE..from the movie al hilal....

Bulo C. Rani was an accompalished Singer and Music Director. He was an assistant to Khemchand Prakash during his Ranjit Studios days and sang several songs under his baton. He started as an independent music director in 1944. His first musical hit was "Moorti" in 1945 in which there were several melodious songs, the best of the lot being that immortal melody, "Badariya Baras Gayi Us Paar" sung by Khurshid, Hameeda and Mukesh. Throughout his career he lived in the shadow of his more renown contemporaries such as Anil Biswas, Gyan Dutt, Khemchand Prakash, Naushad, S.D.Burman, Husnlal Bhagatram and later several other music directors but in terms of the quality of music he could match up to the best. His musical peak was of course Jogan, Dilip Kumar na Nargis starrer but no less beautiful was the music of "Bilwamangal" with such immortal melodies as "Parwanon Se Preet Seekh Lein", "Mohan Pyare Ab Aur Saaz Par Ga Re", "Panghat Pe Morey Shyam" "Ab Sooni Bhayi Re Atariya Hamar". He maintained the quality in his music right till the ned of his 25 year career. One only has to listen to "Mangne Se Jo Maut Mil Jaati, Kaun Jeeta Is Zamane Mein" , a Lata Mangeshkar beauti from 1966 film Sunhere Qadam. The manner of his death suggests that he took this song too seriously.

He maintained the quality in his music right till the ned of his 25 year career. One only has to listen to "Mangne Se Jo Maut Mil Jaati, Kaun Jeeta Is Zamane Mein" , a Lata Mangeshkar beauti from 1966 film Sunhere Qadam. The manner of his death suggests that he took this song too seriously.

Uploaded this beauty here

http://www.hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=12430

Maheshji

Many thanks for uploading this beautiful number. I am not sure but it is likely that this number is actually a repeat of BCR's own composition, "Mangne Se Jo Maut Mil Jaati, Kaun Sehta Dukh Zamane Mein", sung by Talat Mahmood in the 1960 movie, Abdullah.

What a gorgeous song! I have heard this a few times on Vividh Bharati but have never been able to find a recording. Does anyone on HF have this Suraiyya song?

Warm regards,
Abhay