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Indian poet and lyricist (1930–2002)

Anand Bakshi (21 July 1930 – 30 March 2002) was an Indian poet and lyricist. He won Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist 4 times during his career.

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He wrote over 6000 film songs in more than 300 films.^[1][2]

Early life

Anand Bakshi (Bakshi Anand Prakash Vaid) was born in Rawalpindi in the Punjab Province of British India (now in Punjab, Pakistan), on 21 July 1930 into a Mohyal Brahmin family of the Vaid clan.^[3] The family arrived in Delhi, after the Partition of India and then migrated to Pune, then to Meerut and settled finally in Delhi.^[4][5]

Bakshi was fond of writing poetry since his youth, but he did this mostly as a private hobby.

In a 1983 interview with Doordarshan, Bakshi recounted that after his initial studies, he joined the Indian Navy, where due to a paucity of time, he could only write occasionally. He continued to write poetry whenever time permitted, and