Mehboob (lyricist)

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Mehboob Alam Kotwal
Born13 July 1953
Nashik, India
Nationality Indian

Mehboob Alam Kotwal is a writer of Bollywood film song lyrics. He was born and brought up in Mumbai city of Maharashtra. His family moved to the city of Mumbai for good in the 1960s where he received his primary education, first in English and later in Urdu.

Bollywood Hindi language film industry

Hindi cinema, often metonymously referred to as Bollywood and formerly known as Bombay cinema, is the Indian Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The term is a portmanteau of "Bombay" and "Hollywood". The industry is related to Tamil film industry (Kollywood), Telugu film industry (Tollywood) and other industries, making up Indian Cinema – the world's largest.

Mumbai Megacity in Maharashtra, India

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Maharashtra State in western India

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Career

In 1986, Mehboob met music composer Ismail Darbar who used to play the violin in film orchestras in those days. And it was Darbar who taught him the difference between poetry and film lyrics. [1] Darbar introduced Mehboob to filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma and he began his song writing career with Varma's 1992 film Drohi whose music was composed by R. D. Burman. He then worked with A.R.Rahman on Varma's Rangeela. Rahman liked his work and introduced him to Mani Ratnam and Mehboob penned the lyrics for the Hindi (dubbed) version of Bombay. [2] Mehboob went on to work with Rahman on films such as Thakshak, Doli Saja Ke Rakhna and Dil Hi Dil Mein. He has also written the lyrics for Rahman's non-film album Maa Tujhe Salaam as well as Ratnam's Yuva.

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Filmography

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Selected Songs

One 2 Ka Four

Bombay

Yash (1996 film)

Daud

Dil Hi Dil Mein

Doli Saja Ke Rakhna

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

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Rangeela

Thakshak

Vande Mataram

Yuva

Awards

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References

  1. ↑ My First Break - Mehboob
  2. ↑ The man who almost gave verse to Devdas
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