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Kaifi Azmi
Kaifi Azmi is credited on 568 releases across 138 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1956–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
568
Pressings credited
138
Albums
8
Decades active
7
In collections
Biography
Kaifi Azmi (born Athar Husain Rizvi; 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, Jaun Elia and others he participated in many memorable Mushaira gatherings of the twentieth century. He was also a communist who wanted to see India one day become a socialist state. His wife was theatre and film actress Shaukat Kaifi.
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Credited work
568 releases · 138 albums · active 1956–2026
- Performance · 711
- Other credits · 18
- Production · 1
Studios: Planet Studios (3) · Frantic Studio · Jasmine Cafe, The Studio · Melody Productions (3)
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Madan Mohan
- Mohd. Rafi
- Hemant Kumar
- Lata Mangeshkar
- Khayyam
- S. D. Burman
- Ghulam Mohammed
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