Qateel shifai biography

Qateel Shifai (real name Aurangzeb) (24 December 1919 - 11 July 2001) (Urdu: قتیل شفا ئی) was a PakistaniUrdu poet of controversial reputation and work.^[1]

Background

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Qateel Shifai was born in Haripur, Hazara Division, British India (now Pakistan).

He adopted 'Qateel Shifai' as his pen name in 1938. Due to his father's early death, Qateel was forced to quit his education. Being unsuccessful in his business he decided to move to Rawalpindi, where he started working for a transport company.

In 1946, he was called to Lahore to work as the assistant editor of the monthly 'Adab-e-Latif', a literary magazine.

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Aurangzeb Khan or Qateel Shifai (Urdu: قتیل شفا ئی) was a Pakistani Urdu poet.

Qateel Shifai, a renowned Pakistani poet and lyricist, was born in India on 25 December , and later migrated to Pakistan after the Partition of India in.

Early career

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In January 1947, Qateel was asked to help write the songs of a film by a Lahore-based film producer. The first film he helped penned the lyrics for was "Teri Yaad".

After that there was no looking back and initially, after working for some time as assistant lyricist to some of the fam