The arts are a vast subdivision of culture, composed of many creative endeavors and disciplines. It is a broader term than "''art''," which as a description of a field usually means only the visual arts. ''The arts'' encompasses visual arts, literary arts and the performing arts – music, theatre, dance and film, among others. This list is by no means comprehensive, but only meant to introduce the concept of the arts.

Definition

A good definition of ''the arts'' is given by the Free Dictionary as "imaginative, creative, and nonscientific branches of knowledge considered collectively, esp. as studied academically." The singular term ''art'' is defined by the Irish Art Encyclopedia as follows: "Art is created when an artist creates a beautiful object, or produces a stimulating experience that is considered by his audience to have artistic merit." So, one could conclude that ''art'' is the process that leads to a product (the artwork or piece of art), which is then examined and analyzed by experts in the field of ''the arts'' or simply enjoyed by those who appreciate ''the arts.'' The same source states:

Art is a global activity which encompasses a host of disciplines, as evidenced by the range of words and phrases which have been invented to describe its various forms. Examples of such phraseology include: ''Fine Arts'', ''Liberal Arts'', ''Visual Arts'', ''Decorative Arts'', ''Applied Arts'', ''Design'', ''Crafts'', ''Performing Arts'', and so on.

The term ''art'' commonly refers to the "Visual Arts," as an abbreviation of ''creative art'' or ''fine art''. For example, the ''History of art'' is described as "the history of the visual arts of painting, sculpture and architecture. It is the history of one of the fine arts, others of which are the performing arts and literature. It is also one of the humanities. The term sometimes encompasses theory of the visual arts, including aesthetics." In the article for ''Fine art'', we read:

Confusion often occurs when people mistakenly refer to the Fine Arts but mean the Performing Arts (Music, Dance, Drama, etc.). However, there is some disagreement here: e.g., at York University (Toronto, Canada) Fine Arts is a faculty that includes the [visual arts], design and the "Performing Arts". Furthermore, creative writing is frequently considered a fine art as well.

To illustrate the previous statements, the College of Fine Arts at Stephen F. Austin State University (Nacogdoches, TX) consists of the Schools of "Art, Music and Theatre," while one of the Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees at the University of British Columbia is attached to the Creative Writing Program.

More work will be required to standardize the use of the terms "art" and "fine art," but for the purpose of this article the definition of "the arts" is not problematic, because it includes all the arts. One artist has even suggested that "[it] would really simplify matters if we could all just stick with visual, auditory, performance or literary – when we speak of The Arts – and eliminate "Fine" altogether."

History

For all intents and purposes, the history of the arts begins with the ''history of art'', as dealt with elsewhere. Furthermore, the history of the Performing Arts and Literature have been described in other articles --(Please see: Outline of performing arts; History of literature). Some examples of creative art through the ages can be summarized here, as excerpted from the history of art.

Ancient Greek art saw the veneration of the animal form and the development of equivalent skills to show musculature, poise, beauty and anatomically correct proportions. Ancient Roman art depicted gods as idealized humans, shown with characteristic distinguishing features (i.e. Zeus' thunderbolt).

In Byzantine and Gothic art of the Middle Ages, the dominance of the church insisted on the expression of biblical and not material truths.

Eastern art has generally worked in a style akin to Western medieval art, namely a concentration on surface patterning and local colour (meaning the plain colour of an object, such as basic red for a red robe, rather than the modulations of that colour brought about by light, shade and reflection). A characteristic of this style is that the local colour is often defined by an outline (a contemporary equivalent is the cartoon). This is evident in, for example, the art of India, Tibet and Japan.

Religious Islamic art forbids iconography, and expresses religious ideas through geometry instead.

The physical and rational certainties depicted by the 19th-century Enlightenment were shattered not only by new discoveries of relativity by Einstein and of unseen psychology by Freud, but also by unprecedented technological development. Paradoxically the expressions of new technologies were greatly influenced by the ancient tribal arts of Africa and Oceania, through the works of Paul Gauguin and the Post-Impressionists, Pablo Picasso and the Cubists, as well as the Futurists and others.By Arun

The various arts

In the Middle Ages, ''Artes Liberales'' (liberal arts) taught in medieval universities as part of the Trivium: (grammar, rhetoric, and logic) and the Quadrivium (arithmetic, geometry, music, and astronomy), and the ''Artes Mechanicae'' (mechanical arts) such as metalworking, farming, cooking, business and the making of clothes or cloth. The modern distinctions between "artistic" and non-artistic skills did not develop until the Renaissance.

In modern academia, the arts are usually grouped with or a subset of the Humanities. Some subjects in the Humanities are history, linguistics, literature, and philosophy. Newspapers typically include a section on the arts.

Traditionally, the arts are classified as seven although the list has been expanded to nine. These being Architecture, Sculpture, Painting, Music, Poetry, Dance, Theater/Cinema, with the modern non-traditional additions of Photography and Comics.

Visual arts

Drawing

''Drawing'' is a means of making an image, using any of a wide variety of tools and techniques. It generally involves making marks on a surface by applying pressure from a tool, or moving a tool across a surface. Common tools are graphite pencils, pen and ink, inked brushes, wax color pencils, crayons, charcoals, pastels, and markers. Digital tools which simulate the effects of these are also used. The main techniques used in drawing are: line drawing, hatching, crosshatching, random hatching, scribbling, stippling, and blending. An artist who excels in drawing is referred to as a ''draftswoman'' or ''draughtsman''.

Gastronomy

''Gastronomy'' is the study of the relationship between culture and food. It is often thought erroneously that the term gastronomy refers exclusively to the art of cooking (see Culinary art), but this is only a small part of this discipline; it cannot always be said that a cook is also a gourmet. Gastronomy studies various cultural components with food as its central axis. Thus it is related to the Fine Arts and Social Sciences, and even to the Natural Sciences in terms of the digestive system of the human body.

Architecture

Architecture (from Latin, ''architectura'' and ultimately from Greek, ''αρχιτεκτων'', "a master builder", from ''αρχι-'' "chief, leader" and ''τεκτων'', "builder, carpenter") is the art and science of designing buildings and structures.

A wider definition would include within its scope the design of the total built environment, from the macrolevel of town planning, urban design, and landscape architecture to the microlevel of creating furniture. Architectural design usually must address both feasibility and cost for the builder, as well as function and aesthetics for the user.

In modern usage, architecture is the art and discipline of creating an actual, or inferring an implied or apparent plan of any complex object or system. The term can be used to connote the ''implied architecture'' of abstract things such as music or mathematics, the ''apparent architecture'' of natural things, such as geological formations or the structure of biological cells, or explicitly ''planned architectures'' of human-made things such as software, computers, enterprises, and databases, in addition to buildings. In every usage, an architecture may be seen as a ''subjective mapping'' from a human perspective (that of the ''user'' in the case of abstract or physical artifacts) to the elements or components of some kind of structure or system, which preserves the relationships among the elements or components.

Planned architecture manipulates space, volume, texture, light, shadow, or abstract elements in order to achieve pleasing aesthetics. This distinguishes it from applied science or engineering, which usually concentrate more on the functional and feasibility aspects of the design of constructions or structures.

In the field of building architecture, the skills demanded of an architect range from the more complex, such as for a hospital or a stadium, to the apparently simpler, such as planning residential houses. Many architectural works may be seen also as cultural and political symbols, and/or works of art. The role of the architect, though changing, has been central to the successful (and sometimes less than successful) design and implementation of pleasingly built environments in which people live.

Painting

Painting taken literally is the practice of applying pigment suspended in a vehicle (or medium) and a binding agent (a glue) to a surface (support) such as paper, canvas, wood panel or a wall. However, when used in an artistic sense it means the use of this activity in combination with drawing, composition and other aesthetic considerations in order to manifest the expressive and conceptual intention of the practitioner. Painting is also used to express spiritual motifs and ideas; sites of this kind of painting range from artwork depicting mythological figures on pottery to The Sistine Chapel to the human body itself.

Colour is the essence of painting as sound is of music. Colour is highly subjective, but has observable psychological effects, although these can differ from one culture to the next. Black is associated with mourning in the West, but elsewhere white may be. Some painters, theoreticians, writers and scientists, including Goethe, Kandinsky, Newton, have written their own colour theory. Moreover the use of language is only a generalization for a colour equivalent. The word "red", for example, can cover a wide range of variations on the pure red of the spectrum. There is not a formalized register of different colours in the way that there is agreement on different notes in music, such as C or C#, although the Pantone system is widely used in the printing and design industry for this purpose.

Modern artists have extended the practice of painting considerably to include, for example, collage. This began with Cubism and is not painting in strict sense. Some modern painters incorporate different materials such as sand, cement, straw or wood for their texture. Examples of this are the works of Jean Dubuffet or Anselm Kiefer.

Modern and contemporary art has moved away from the historic value of craft in favour of concept; this has led some to say that painting, as a serious art form, is dead, although this has not deterred the majority of artists from continuing to practise it either as whole or part of their work.

Conceptual art

Conceptual art is art in which the concept(s) or idea(s) involved in the work take precedence over traditional aesthetic and material concerns. The inception of the term in the 1960s referred to a strict and focused practice of idea-based art that often defied traditional visual criteria associated with the visual arts in its presentation as text. However, through its association with the Young British Artists and the Turner Prize during the 1990s, its popular usage, particularly in the UK, developed as a synonym for all contemporary art that does not practise the traditional skills of painting and sculpture.

Video games

A debate exists in the fine arts and video game cultures over whether video games can be counted as an art form. Some cite games such as Shadow of the Colossus and Myst as prime examples of video games as an art form. Others, such as game designer Hideo Kojima, profess that video games are a type of service, not an art form.

In May of 2011, the National Endowment of the Arts included video games in its redefinition of what is considered a ''work of art''.

Literary arts

Literature is literally "acquaintance with letters" as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin ''littera'' meaning "an individual written character (letter)"). The term has generally come to identify a collection of writings, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction, drama and poetry. In much, if not all of the world, texts can be oral as well, and include such genres as epic, legend, myth, ballad, other forms of oral poetry, and as folktale.

Performing arts

The performing arts differ from the plastic arts insofar as the former uses the artist's own body, face, presence as a medium, and the latter uses materials such as clay, metal or paint which can be molded or transformed to create some art object.

Performing arts include acrobatics, busking, comedy, dance, magic, music, opera, operetta, film, juggling, martial arts, marching arts such as brass bands and theatre.

Artists who participate in these arts in front of an audience are called performers, including actors, comedians, dancers, musicians, and singers. Performing arts are also supported by workers in related fields, such as songwriting and stagecraft.

Performers often adapt their appearance, such as with costumes and stage makeup, etc.

There is also a specialized form of fine art in which the artists ''perform'' their work live to an audience. This is called Performance art. Dance was often referred to as a ''plastic art'' during the Modern dance era.

Music

Music is an art form whose medium is sound. Common elements of music are pitch (which governs melody and harmony), rhythm (and its associated concepts tempo, meter, and articulation), dynamics, and the sonic qualities of timbre and texture. The creation, performance, significance, and even the definition of music vary according to culture and social context. Music ranges from strictly organized compositions (and their recreation in performance), through improvisational music to aleatoric forms. Music can be divided into genres and subgenres, although the dividing lines and relationships between music genres are often subtle, sometimes open to individual interpretation, and occasionally controversial. Within "the arts", music may be classified as a performing art, a fine art, and auditory art.

Theatre

Theatre or theater (Greek "theatron", ''θέατρον'') is the branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts. In addition to the standard narrative dialogue style, theatre takes such forms as opera, ballet, mime, kabuki, classical Indian dance, Chinese opera and mummers' plays.

Dance

Dance (from Old French ''dancier'', perhaps from Frankish) generally refers to human movement either used as a form of expression or presented in a social, spiritual or performance setting.

''Dance'' is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication (see body language) between humans or animals (bee dance, mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (''the leaves danced in the wind''), and certain musical forms or genres.

Choreography is the art of making dances, and the person who does this is called a choreographer. People danced to relieve stress.

Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic, artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as Folk dance) to codified, virtuoso techniques such as ballet. In sports, gymnastics, figure skating and synchronized swimming are ''dance'' disciplines while Martial arts 'kata' are often compared to dances.

Arts criticism

Architecture criticism

Visual art criticism

Dance criticism

Film criticism

Literary criticism

Music journalism

Television criticism

Theatre criticism

See also

Culinary art

Fine art

Martial arts

Performing arts

Art in odd places

References

''Does time fly?—Peter Galison's Empires of Time, a historical survey of Einstein and Poincare, intrigues Jon Turney''. Jon Turney. The Guardian, Saturday 6 September 2003

''Contradictions of the Enlightenment: Darwin, Freud, Einstein''

Notes

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name	Anand Bakshi
birth date	July 21, 1930
birth place	Rawalpindi, British India (now Pakistan)
death date	March 30, 2002
death place	Mumbai, India
yearsactive	1958–2002
occupation	Lyricist
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Anand Bakshi (21 July 1930 – 30 March 2002) was a popular Indian poet and lyricist.

Biography of Anand Bakshi

Early days

Anand Bakshi was born in Rawalpindi, now in Pakistan, on 21 July 1930. His ancestors were from Kuri, near Rawalpindi, and had origins in Kashmir. His mother, Sumitra, died when he was 5. Bakshi's family migrated to India (Lucknow) on 2 October 1947, in the aftermath of the partition, when he was 17 years old.

Before he established himself as a Lyrics writer for Hindi film songs, he served for 2 years in the Royal Indian Navy, (Karachi) and after partition he served 6 years in the Indian Army, based at Jubbalpore, with The Corps of Signals, and later with the E.M.E., Infantry.

While in the Army, The Corps of Signals, he wrote an Aim in Life for himself. – “Every one in this world, rich or poor should have a definite aim in life. A man without any fixed purpose in life is like a ship without rudder, at the mercy of the winds, powerless to control its course. So a person having no aim in life has nothing by which to guide his actions, or regulate his conduct. I, the undersigned, Anand Prakash Bakshi (AZAD.), intend to study music. For it is my aim in life to become an artist. And to achieve this, I must join films, radio, or theatre, and become a singer, songs composer, music director, director, etc.,.”

Timeline

6 Mar 1943 - He left Cambridge College, (Rawalpindi)

12 Jul 1944 - He joined Royal Indian Navy (Post - Boy 1) hoping that his ship (H.M. I.S. Dilawar, and, H.M.I.S. Bahadur) would dock in Bombay, the land of his film dreams, but was disappointed when she did not.

5 Apr 1946 - He was dismissed from the Royal Indian Navy after he was arrested and detained in custody, for taking part in Naval Mutiny at Bombay harbor, against the British Empire, on the ship H.M.I.S. Hindustan.

12 Apr 1947 - He joined Indian Army, with The Corps of Signals. In his spare time in the army he would write songs and sing to friends. It is his army mates who encouraged him to try his luck in Hindi films as an actor, writer or singer.

2 Oct 1947 - The family left Rawalpindi, Pakistan, for India, for Lucknow, at Jubbolpore, (due to the Partition)

12 Apr 1951 - Left Corps of Signals

1951 - He arrived in Bombay (to find work in films), but did not get work so he returned.

16 Feb 1951 - He joined the Indian Army, with The E.M.E. (The Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineers)

2 Oct 1954 - He married Kamla Mohan (his neighbor from Rawalpindi)

27 Aug 1956 - He left the Indian Army, E.M.E.

Oct 1956 - He arrived again in Bombay, (to again try and find work in films), for the 2nd time, armed with about 60 songs, but did not find work, so he would sit in the waiting room of Dadar Station, or the platform bench at Marine Lines Station, and continue write his dreams- songs.

His first published poem appeared in an Army publication, “Sainik Samachar”, and this boosted his morale and gave him confidence to try in Hindi films. (Later on, in the late 90’s, he even wrote a special song for the Indian Military Academy, Dehra Dhun. He even wrote a song for the Corps of Signals, on their invitation. After his death, the Corps of Signals established a “Bakshi Corner” in their Corps Museum.)

Success

Anand Bakshi came to Hindi films to make a name for himself in writing and singing but ended up becoming more successful in writing lyrics. He got his break writing songs in a Brij Mohan's film titled, "Bhala Aadmi", 1958, acted by Bhagwan Dada. He wrote 4 songs in this film. His first song in this film was "Dharti Ke Laal Na Kar Itna Malaal" which was recorded on 9 Nov 1956. He found big success in 1965 and went on to work as a lyricist of over 3500 songs and 650 films in the course of his life. He got his first time singing in a film was in ''Mome Ki Gudiya''(1972). The first song he sang was a duet “Baaghon me bahaar aayi hothon pe pukaar aayi”, along with Lata Mangeshkar. Laxmikant Pyarelal composed the music for Mome Ki Gudiya. He also sang songs in 4 other films: ''Sholay'' (1975) where he sang the quawwali "Chand Sa Koi Chehera" along with Manna Dey, Kishore Kumar, Bhupinder; Maha Chor (1976); Charas (1976); and, Balika Badhu (1976).

After writing for few movies from 1956 onwards, Bakshi made a mark for himself for writing a quawalli for the 1962 film ''Kaala Samundar'', the song was-“Meri Tasveer Lekar Kya Karoge tum”, and the film ''Mehendi Lagi Mere Haath''. He got his real big breakthroughs in 1965 with ''Himalay Ki God Mein'', and a huge breakthrough again in 1965 with the super hit film ''Jab Jab Phool Khile'', starring Shashi Kapoor; and once again in 1967 with the super hit movie ''Milan'' (starring Sunil Dutt). With these two very big successful films, he got the opportunity to write for all star music composers and Producers and Directors, in Indian cinema.

Anand Bakshi’s association in Hindi films with film Music Composers include appox 300 films with Laxmikant Pyarelal, 97 films with R D Burman, 31 with Kalyanji-Anandji, 26 with Anu Malik, 17 with Rajesh Roshan ans his songs have been sung by singers like Shamshad Begum, Khursheed Bawra, Amirbai Karnataki, Bhushan & Party, Sudha Malhotra and more.

He wrote the first recorded songs of singers like Shailendra Singh, Kumar Sanu, Kavita Krishnamurthy, etc., and he established himself as a versatile lyricist with the song "Dum Maro Dum" in the movie ''Hare Rama Hare Krishna'' (1972).

After this, he wrote memorable lyrics in many movies including ''Bobby'' and ''Amar Prem'' (1971), Aradhana 1970, ''Jeene Ki Raah'' with Jeetendra, ''Mera Gaon Mera Desh'' with Dharmendra, ''Aaye Din Bahar Ke'', ''Aya Sawan Jhoom Ke'', ''Seeta Aur Geeta'' with Hema Malini, ''Sholay'' (1975), ''Dharam Veer'', ''Nagina'', ''Hum'' (1991), ''Mohra'' (1994), ''Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge'' (1995), ''Heer Raanjha'', ''Taal'' (1998), ''Mohabbatein'' (2000), ''Gadar: Ek Prem Katha'' (2001) and ''Yaadein (2001).

Death

Late in his life, he suffered from heart and lung disease as a consequence of life-long smoking. In 2001, he caught a bacterial infection at [[Nanavati hospital, during a minor heart surgery. He finally died of multiple organ failure on 30 March 2002 8PM at Mumbai's Nanavati Hospital, at the age of 72.

The last released movie with lyrics by Anand Bakshi was Mehbooba (2008).

Awards

Bakshi received 40 Filmfare Award nominations, and won four Filmfare awards as best lyricist.

The songs awarded the Filmfare award were:

+Filmfare Awards Won
Song !! Movie !! Year
"Aadmi Musafir Hai"	Apnapan	1977
"Tere Mere Beech"	Ek Duuje Ke Liye
"Tujhe Dekha"	Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
"Ishq Bina"	Taal (film)>Taal

40 nominations of Filmfare awards:

+Filmfare Award Nominations
Song !! Movie !! Year
"Sawan Ka Mahina"	Milan	1968
"Kora kaakaz Tha"	Aradhana
"Aane Se Uske"	Jeene Ki Raah
"Bindiya Chamke Gi"	Do Raaste
"Na Koi Umang hai"	Kati Patang
"Chingari Koi Bhadke"	Amar Prem
"Hum Ek Kamre Mein"	Bobby
"Mein Shayar Toh Nahin"	Bobby
"Gadi Bula Rahi Hai"	Dost
Aayegi Zaroor Chitti"	Dulhan
"Mehbooba Mehbooba"	Sholay
"Mere Naiyana Sawan Badho"	Mehbooba
"Parda Hai Parda"	Amar Akbar Anthony
"Mein Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki	Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki
"Aadmi Musafir Hai"	Apnapan
"Sawan Ke Jhule Pade"	Jurmana
"Dafli Wale, Dafli Baja"	Sargam
"Seesha Ho Ya Dil Ho"	Aasha
"Om Shanti Om"	Karz (film)>Karz
"Dar De Dil, Dar De Jigar"	Karz (film)>Karz
"Bane Agar Dushman Zamana Hamara"	Dostana
"Solah Baras Ki"	Ek Duje Ke Liye
"Tere Mere Beech Mein"	Ek Duje Ke Liye
"Yaad Aa Rahi Hai"	Love Story
"Jab Hum Jawaan Honge"	Betaab
"Sohni Chnaab De"	Sohni Mahiwal
"Zindagi Har Kadam"	Meri Jung
"Lagi Aag Sawan Ki"	Chandni
"Choli Ke Peeche Kya Hai"	Khalnayak
"Jaadu Teri Nazar"	Darr
"Tu Cheez Badi Hai Mast Mast"	Mohra
"Ghar Aaja Pardesi"	Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
"Tujhe Dekha To"	Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
"Bholi Si Surat"	Dil To Pagal Hai
"I Love My India"	Pardes (film)>Pardes
"Meri Mehbooba"	Pardes (film)>Pardes
"Taal Se Taal Mila"	Taal (film)>Taal
"Ishq Bina"	Taal (film)>Taal
"Humko Hamise Chura Lo"	Mohabbatein
"Udja Kaale Kawan"	Gadar: Ek Prem Katha

1967 – C.I.D.A.L.C. (Committee International for the Diffusion of Arts and Literature through the Cinema) at the Festival Des Films Asiatiques, Frankfurt (Frankfurt Sur Main 1967).

He also won innumerable ''Ruby Film Awards'', ''Aashirwad Film Awards'', ''Sushma Shama Awards'', 3 ''Screen awards'', and ''Zee & Stardust Hero Honda Awards''.

Bakshi won an award from the SPCA for his hard-hitting lyrics for the song ''Nafrat Ki Duniya Chhodke Pyar Ki Duniya Mein'' from the film Haathi Mere Saathi.

Bakshi wrote the most lyrics—for 300 Hindi movies—with the music directors duo Laxmikant-Pyarelal as the movies' composers. Not coincidentally, he was the lyricist on all the occasions they won the Filmfare Award for Best Music Director, except their first award winning album, Dosti, for which the lyrics were written by Majrooh Sultanpuri. Bakshi also wrote the lyrics for many films whose music was composed by Rahul Dev Burman and their association resulted in many hit songs.

Anand Bakshi’s association in Hindi films with Music Composers: Appox. 300 films with Laxmikant & Pyarelal. ; 97 films with R D Burman. ; 31 with Kalyanji & Anandji. ; 26 with Anu Malik. 17 with Rajesh Roshan. 13 with S D Burman. 8 with Anand & Milind. 7 with Roshan. 7 with Jatin & Lalit. 7 with S. Mohinder. 7 with Bhappie Lahiri. 7 with Viju Shah. 6 with N. Datta. 5 with Shiv & Hari. 8 with Uttam Singh. 3 with A R Rehman. 3 with Ravindra Jain. 3 with Usha Khanna. 3 with S D Batish. 2 with Chitragupt. 2 with C. Ramchandra. 2 with Anil Biswas. 2 with Sardul Qatra. 2 with M.M. Kareem. 3 with Nikhil Kamath & Vinay Tiwari. 2 with Nadeem & Shravan. 2 with Darshan Rathod & Sanjeev Rathod (Sanjeev Darshan). 3 with Anand Raj Anand. 2 with Datta Ram. (Dattaram) 2 with M.M. Kreem. 2 with Amar Utpal. 1 with Shankar & Jaikishen. 1 with Naushad. 1 with Vishal Bhardwaj. 1 with Ismail Darbar. 1 with Rahul Sharma. 1 with Nusrat Fatheh Ali Khan. 1 with Sajid Ali. 1 with Sukhwinder Singh. 1 with Salil Chowdhary. 1 with Nissar Bazmi. 1 with B N Bali. 1 with Ravi. 1 with Bulo C. Rani. 1 with Lachhiram. 1 with Vasant Desai. 1 with Raju Singh. 1 with G S Kohli. 1 with S N Tripathi. 1 with Dansingh. 1 with Kishore Kumar. 1 with Talat Aziz. 1 with Sajid & Wajid. 1 with Surendra Singh Sodhi. 1 with Anjan Biswas. 1 with Adesh Shrivastav. (Not Released) 1 with Neeraj Vora & Uttank Vora. 1 with Adnan Sami. (Not released). 1 with Amjad Ali Khan (Not Released). 1 with McCoy Tyner (A private album for Sahara Limited, Subroto Roy company.). Forthcoming films: Anand Bakshiji's unreleased lyrics will appear in a forthcoming film, in 2011, film title "Yeh Jo Mohhabat Hai", it's under production now, Produced by Aradhana Films (son of film legend Shakti Samanta's son, Aashim Samantha's), title of Lyrics " Pyar karna na tha..." Music Anu Malik.

Misc

Anand Bakshi wrote the lyrics for the very first films of several of today's stars, including Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Kamal Haasan, Rishi Kapoor, Amrita Singh, Shahrukh Khan, Akshay Kumar, among several others.

He worked with several music directors who were the sons of the music directors that he had worked with in his early days: SD and RD Burman, Chitragupta and Anand-Milind, Kalyanji Anandji and Viju Shah, Roshan and Rajesh Roshan, Nadeem-Shravan and Sanjeev Darshan etc. He also worked with father-son pairs of film directors like Manmohan Desai and Ketan Desai, and Yash and Aditya Chopra.

He wrote the first recorded songs of playback singers Mukesh, Shailender Singh, Udit Narayan, Kumar Sanu, Kavita Krishnamurthy and S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, to name a few.

Stars like Rajesh Khanna, Dharmendra, Jeetendra, Sunny Deol, Shashi Kapoor, Sunil Dutt, Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Rajendra Kumar, Ajay Devgan, Shahrukh Khan and Juhi Chawla opted for Anand Bakshi when they started their own film production companies.

Anand Bakshi finally accomplished his dream of becoming a singer by singing a qawwali "Ke Chand Sa Koi Chehra" for R.D.Burman in Sholay along with Kishore Kumar, Manna Dey and Bhupinder. Anupama Chopra's 'Sholay - The Making of a Classic' mentions that "The qawwali was recorded but never shot - the film was already longer than the requisite three hours. Bakshi was most disheartened. 'Perhaps if they had kept it' he wondered 'I might have had a career as a singer'."

However, Anand Bakshi finally sung a song in film Charas Dharmendra. The song was "Ke Aaja ter yaadi aayi" and has to satisfy himself by singing only the "mukhda" of song - the rest of the song is sung by Lata-Rafi pair. It was great hit of the time.

Appox 350 films music published by HMV/Saregama; 70 films by T-Series; 32 films by TIPS.

Anand Bakshi’s songs remixed and released in foreign films:

In 2001, Anand Bakshi’s song, "Aaj mausam bada beimaan hai", was included in "Monsoon Wedding".

In 2009, Anand Bakshi’s song "Choli ke peeche kya hai", was included in “Slumdog Millionaire”.

Bakshi’s songs have been sung by singers like: Shamshad Begam, Khursheed Bawra, Amirbai Karnataki, Bhushan & Party, Sudha Malhotra, Bhushan, Madhubala Jhaveri, Asha Bhosle, and he has worked with film makers like: Raj Kapoor, Manmohan Desai, B R Chopra, Yash Chopra, Gulshan Rai and more.

See also

Filmography of Anand Bakshi

Additions: Aug 2011.

Sr. No. 637- One song “Mera Hindustan, God Bless our Home”. Music Composer -McCoy Tyner. (A private album for Sahara Limited, Subroto Roy company).

Sr. No. 638- Film- Yeh Jo Mohabbat Hai. Producer - Aradhana Films. (Ashim Samantha) One song – Lyrics: “Pyar Karna Na Tha”. Music Composer- Anu Malik. Year of release- 2011/2012. (In-production as of Aug 2011)

Sr No. 639-

In 2001 he wrote a Poem for the Corps of Signals, (his ex-army unit) on their invitation, to be displayed at their proposed "Corps Museum", of the Corps of Signals, Dehra Dhun. Lyrics- “Main Ek Hindustani, Bas Yeh Meri Pehchan, Jaan Hai Sabse Pyaari, Jaan Se Pyaara Hindustan…” (vide Letter no. 1059/01/ 26 dated 15 Jan 2001, from Colonel K. Bhattacharya, Commanding Officer, 2001, Corps of Signals, 1 Technical Training Regiment, and 1 Signal Training Centre, Jabalpur. India)

Sr No. 640-

Film- Haq Ki Jung. (Starring- Kumar Gaurav). Producer -Shreekala Arts. Director- Mohan Rao. Music Composer- Amar Utpal. Music Co.- Weston. Year- 1988/89.

References

External links

Documentary on Anand Bakshi, by Subhash Ghai (@Mukta Arts ltd.) dated 21 july 1998. : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iClshp5lpCM

Filmfare awards

Screen India

http://www.informationdelight.info/encyclopedia/entry/Anand_Bakshi

Facebook Group 1 by Rakesh A Bakshi

Facebook Group 2 by Rajiv Vijayakar

Documentary by Mukta Arts Ltd.

Times Now Documentary "Total Recall" on Anand Bakshi:

* Video Part 1

* Video Part 2

* Video Part 3

* Video Part 4

* Video Part 5

* Video Part 6

Screen India Writer Rajiv Vijaykar

* http://www.screenindia.com/old/20020412/mcov.html

* http://www.screenindia.com/news/lyrics-of-life/595570/

* http://www.screenindia.com/news/one-of-a-kind/324901/

* http://www.screenindia.com/fullstory.php?content_id=2806

(rediff.com Writer Rajiv Vijayakar - A shayar at heart

http://www.screenindia.com/news/historic-revolt/817002/

The Rare Anand Bakshi (posted 2003) http://202.138.122.66/fullstory.php?content_id=2806&pg=-1

Memsaabstory

www.indianentertainment.info

http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/news/2011/05/11/15764/index.html (Subhash Ghai to make documentary on Anand Bakshi)

: Documentary on Anand Bakshi by @NewsX Tv Channel (May 2011)

Part 1- http://alpha.newsx.com/flashback-anand-bakshi-%E2%80%93-i

Part 2- http://alpha.newsx.com/flashback-anand-bakshi-%E2%80%93-ii

@ZoomTV http://zoomtv.smashits.com/video/4454/anand-bakshi-s-birthday-party.html (Subhash Ghai celebrates Anand Bakshi's Birthday 1998) Also on http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8txIvSYaVI

Anand Bakshi Singing lines from two of his film songs at @Mukta Arts studio : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrnlJnKFyL4

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