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Shakeel badayuni biography of michael
Shakeel Badayuni
Indian writer (1916–1970)
Shakeel Badayuni (3 August 1916 – 20 April 1970) was an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter in Hindi / Urdu language films.[1][2][3]
Early life
Shakeel Badayuni was born in Badaun, Uttar Pradesh.
His father, Mohammed Jamaal Ahmed Sokhta Qadiri, wanted him to have a successful career, thus he arranged Arabic, Urdu, Persian, and Hindi tuition for Shakeel at home. His inclination towards poetry was not hereditary like other shayars.[4] One of his distant relatives, Zia-ul-Qadiri Badayuni, was a religious shayar.
Shakeel Masoodi was influenced by him and the contemporary environment of Badayun led him to poetry.[5]
When he joined Aligarh Muslim University in 1936, he started participating in inter-college, inter-university mushairas, or poetry recitation symposiums, and won frequently.
In 1940, he married Salma, who was his distant relative and had been living in a common