Adeem Hashmi
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Adeem Fasihuddin Hashmi was a famous Urdu
poet, arguably the finest ever works of Urdu ghazal are attributed to his name. He was born in Faisalabad
, Pakistan in 1946 but lived most of his life between Pakistan, and America where he died. He started his journey of writing in Lahore
, Pakistan. Arguably the finest poet of his time Adeem was the most controversial writer in Urdu poetry
in the 70's and 90's. He rose to instant fame in the community with his poems 'Kat hi Gaye Judaie bhi' and ‘Faasle Aise Bhi Honge’ in the late 60's. This came at a time when the poetic tone was set high and strong in the country. Adeem had many poems catered by the critiques at a level which most poets didn't enjoy. This created some controversies and conflicts amongst the political lines that poets were eagerly drawing on the map. Adeem's natural flair and style was fresh and different and he had the sense to realize the need of the time and age around him. Even though most poets of high esteem were sunk in romance and nature, his chose basic fundamentals of revolt and complimented that with personal confrontation as an analogy.
arena. Adeem had a very strong list of contemporaries like Shakeb Jalali
, Nasir Kazmi and Ahmed Faraz who had already set the stage for poetry to be recognized and admired amongst the mass. Adeem came at a time where the fellowship of an already set poetic dialect of the meter was set as a convention. He instead at an early age started his own and experimented successfully. Adeem’s fans for this reason were fewer but were strong followers of his works. Adeem’s following created clubs and societies which accepted only similar works of Shakaib and Iqbal.
Adeem is known as a person who derived his own inspirations and this created a pedestal higher than his pack. Even though Nasir Kazmi and Shakaib had already rose to the mastery and had literally stolen the stage, Adeem at such a young age managed to create an image and impression. However this was short lived in the 70’s and due to his personal turmoil and ordeals, this spur was short lived and he was exiled in the late 70’s for being to candid in cashing his impressions through his ghazal’s and writing to extend the underlined revolution against the tyranny of the governors. Adeem’s analogies were too simple and understandable by the mass and Adeem was fast becoming the new Iqbal.
He wrote his best work in The United States where he lived half of his like finally coming to Pakistan when the General Zia Ul Haq
’s regime ended in 1989. He managed 7 books after 1992’s debut “TARKASH” which was a collection of the 25 years of his works.
His controversies had grown so big at that time that his book was left an orphan from the writer’s community and he had to give his own reviews on the preface of his first book. ‘Tarkash’ became critically acclaimed as the finest collection of Ghazal’s and put Adeem back in the poetic circles after a long vacuum of 20 years.
Adeem hashmi’s experiments like “Muqalima” and “Chehra Tumhara Yaad Rehta Hai’ set the tone for a totally new style of poetry. And critics started writing about Adeem’s original Ghazal’s strength in comparison to his new experiments.
Adeem is also known to have been inspired by Shakaib Jalali and wrote for and about his poetry a lot. Ahmed Faraz and nasir Kazmi were other names who stayed close quarters with Adeem’s works during their times. Ahmed Faraz stayed a credible name in Adeem’s reviews himself and articles from Adeem came out to be very bluntly battering every name in his times except Faraz and shakaib to which Adeem never forgot to pay great tribute.
Adeem died in Chicago Hope on 5 November 2001 from a heart failure. His last book “Bohat nazdeek Aate ja rahe ho” was written in the hospitals of Pakistan and America where he stayed admitted for the last year of his life.
Adeem left behind 1 widow (Samina Naqvi) and 3 sons (Manzil Irtekaz Adeem, Sahil Aizaz Adeem & Xaryab Hashmi). All of his Sons became writers themselves. The famous 6th Road in Rawalpindi
was named after him where he lived his last years.
Other Than Adeem's primary works in Urdu Ghazals, Adeem had a Midas touch with the pen. He wrote excellent and highly successful plays for Pakistan Television which got instant fame and attention like "Guest House" which ran longer than any other play on PTV. 'Aaghosh' put Adeem on the writers podium taking all acclaims from all over the country. "Comedy Theatre" and other short serials like 'gudi gudi' etc. were Adeem's works on TV.
Most famous songs of the Pakistani history are also in Adeem's bad like "Daikha Na Tha kabhi Hum ne Ye sama" which still holds highest runs on TV records and is probably the most famous song ever in the history of the nation.
Farida Khanum's "Gajray Mekhkay Balon Mein", Ghazals sung by famous singers like 'Ghulam Ali', 'Asad Amanat Ali', 'Pervaiz Mehdi' & 'Khalil Haider' are still heard with great appreciation.
His Songs with "AWAZ" contributed three albums including their debut album. Adnan Sami Khan's Debu on TV was also attributed to Adeem's Works with Songs like "Behta Darya" and "Dekho Jan e man".
However even with the Plays and Songs which were instant hits and were sweeping the nation from every direction, Adeem's Ghazal's were his true banners which didnt come down from the credibility ladder even though his reasons of fame were fast becoming other categories of works. During his last days Adeem has quit writing for TV and was fully focused on Ghazal's which finally took him away.
‘Tarkash’1992, ‘Muqalima’1995, ‘Chehra Tumhara yaad rehta hai’1996, ‘faasle aisay bhi honge’2000, ‘Diana-The princess of Love’2000, ‘Bohat nazdeek aate Jaa Rahe ho’2001.
Urdu
Urdu is a register of the Hindustani language that is identified with Muslims in South Asia. It belongs to the Indo-European family. Urdu is the national language and lingua franca of Pakistan. It is also widely spoken in some regions of India, where it is one of the 22 scheduled languages and an...
poet, arguably the finest ever works of Urdu ghazal are attributed to his name. He was born in Faisalabad
Faisalabad
Faisalabad , formerly known as Lyallpur, is the third largest metropolis in Pakistan, the second largest in the province of Punjab after Lahore, and a major industrial center in the heart of Pakistan. Before the foundation of the city in 1880, the area was very thinly populated. The population has...
, Pakistan in 1946 but lived most of his life between Pakistan, and America where he died. He started his journey of writing in Lahore
Lahore
Lahore is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and the second largest city in the country. With a rich and fabulous history dating back to over a thousand years ago, Lahore is no doubt Pakistan's cultural capital. One of the most densely populated cities in the world, Lahore remains a...
, Pakistan. Arguably the finest poet of his time Adeem was the most controversial writer in Urdu poetry
Urdu poetry
Urdu poetry is a rich tradition of poetry and has many different types and forms. Borrowing much from the Persian language, it is today an important part of Pakistani and North Indian culture....
in the 70's and 90's. He rose to instant fame in the community with his poems 'Kat hi Gaye Judaie bhi' and ‘Faasle Aise Bhi Honge’ in the late 60's. This came at a time when the poetic tone was set high and strong in the country. Adeem had many poems catered by the critiques at a level which most poets didn't enjoy. This created some controversies and conflicts amongst the political lines that poets were eagerly drawing on the map. Adeem's natural flair and style was fresh and different and he had the sense to realize the need of the time and age around him. Even though most poets of high esteem were sunk in romance and nature, his chose basic fundamentals of revolt and complimented that with personal confrontation as an analogy.
Poetic career
Adeem had a very sudden rise in the poetic circles and created strong impressions on the GhazalGhazal
The ghazal is a poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter. A ghazal may be understood as a poetic expression of both the pain of loss or separation and the beauty of love in spite of that pain. The form is ancient, originating in 6th century...
arena. Adeem had a very strong list of contemporaries like Shakeb Jalali
Shakeb Jalali
Shakeb Jalali was a Pakistani Urdu poet of a unique diction.Shakeb Jalali's real name was Syed Hassan Rizvi. His ancestors were from a small town, Saddat Jalali, near Aligarh, India. In accordance with the well known Poet, Writer and authentic Critic Mr...
, Nasir Kazmi and Ahmed Faraz who had already set the stage for poetry to be recognized and admired amongst the mass. Adeem came at a time where the fellowship of an already set poetic dialect of the meter was set as a convention. He instead at an early age started his own and experimented successfully. Adeem’s fans for this reason were fewer but were strong followers of his works. Adeem’s following created clubs and societies which accepted only similar works of Shakaib and Iqbal.
Adeem is known as a person who derived his own inspirations and this created a pedestal higher than his pack. Even though Nasir Kazmi and Shakaib had already rose to the mastery and had literally stolen the stage, Adeem at such a young age managed to create an image and impression. However this was short lived in the 70’s and due to his personal turmoil and ordeals, this spur was short lived and he was exiled in the late 70’s for being to candid in cashing his impressions through his ghazal’s and writing to extend the underlined revolution against the tyranny of the governors. Adeem’s analogies were too simple and understandable by the mass and Adeem was fast becoming the new Iqbal.
Critical acclaim
His correctness and awareness of the Urdu poetry and his sense to pitch the most relative analogies appealed to the critics and the mass alike. This was the reason he was rated amongst the masters of this art. However in the 70’s his fan following was gathered amongst the class of people who were elite in the poetic understandings.He wrote his best work in The United States where he lived half of his like finally coming to Pakistan when the General Zia Ul Haq
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq
General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq , was the 4th Chief Martial Law Administrator and the sixth President of Pakistan from July 1977 to his death in August 1988...
’s regime ended in 1989. He managed 7 books after 1992’s debut “TARKASH” which was a collection of the 25 years of his works.
His controversies had grown so big at that time that his book was left an orphan from the writer’s community and he had to give his own reviews on the preface of his first book. ‘Tarkash’ became critically acclaimed as the finest collection of Ghazal’s and put Adeem back in the poetic circles after a long vacuum of 20 years.
Works
Adeem tried hard to make his place, however his flair and inspirations didn’t swallow any of the poetry of the 80’s and hence couldn’t get that acceptance he emotionally longed for. Pakistani poetic societies had become too political and the great poets were chasing careers instead of any poetic objective. Adeem due to this friction of views had a very controversial decade and his friction with the poets of that time became more of a reason of his fame than his works of poetry. Names like Ahmed Nadeem Qasmi and Amjad Islam Amjad, Ata Ul Haq Qasmi were to and fro found writing against Adeem and vice versa.Adeem hashmi’s experiments like “Muqalima” and “Chehra Tumhara Yaad Rehta Hai’ set the tone for a totally new style of poetry. And critics started writing about Adeem’s original Ghazal’s strength in comparison to his new experiments.
Adeem is also known to have been inspired by Shakaib Jalali and wrote for and about his poetry a lot. Ahmed Faraz and nasir Kazmi were other names who stayed close quarters with Adeem’s works during their times. Ahmed Faraz stayed a credible name in Adeem’s reviews himself and articles from Adeem came out to be very bluntly battering every name in his times except Faraz and shakaib to which Adeem never forgot to pay great tribute.
Adeem died in Chicago Hope on 5 November 2001 from a heart failure. His last book “Bohat nazdeek Aate ja rahe ho” was written in the hospitals of Pakistan and America where he stayed admitted for the last year of his life.
Adeem left behind 1 widow (Samina Naqvi) and 3 sons (Manzil Irtekaz Adeem, Sahil Aizaz Adeem & Xaryab Hashmi). All of his Sons became writers themselves. The famous 6th Road in Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi , locally known as Pindi, is a city in the Pothohar region of Pakistan near Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad, in the province of Punjab. Rawalpindi is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad...
was named after him where he lived his last years.
Other Than Adeem's primary works in Urdu Ghazals, Adeem had a Midas touch with the pen. He wrote excellent and highly successful plays for Pakistan Television which got instant fame and attention like "Guest House" which ran longer than any other play on PTV. 'Aaghosh' put Adeem on the writers podium taking all acclaims from all over the country. "Comedy Theatre" and other short serials like 'gudi gudi' etc. were Adeem's works on TV.
Most famous songs of the Pakistani history are also in Adeem's bad like "Daikha Na Tha kabhi Hum ne Ye sama" which still holds highest runs on TV records and is probably the most famous song ever in the history of the nation.
Farida Khanum's "Gajray Mekhkay Balon Mein", Ghazals sung by famous singers like 'Ghulam Ali', 'Asad Amanat Ali', 'Pervaiz Mehdi' & 'Khalil Haider' are still heard with great appreciation.
His Songs with "AWAZ" contributed three albums including their debut album. Adnan Sami Khan's Debu on TV was also attributed to Adeem's Works with Songs like "Behta Darya" and "Dekho Jan e man".
However even with the Plays and Songs which were instant hits and were sweeping the nation from every direction, Adeem's Ghazal's were his true banners which didnt come down from the credibility ladder even though his reasons of fame were fast becoming other categories of works. During his last days Adeem has quit writing for TV and was fully focused on Ghazal's which finally took him away.
Books
His books include‘Tarkash’1992, ‘Muqalima’1995, ‘Chehra Tumhara yaad rehta hai’1996, ‘faasle aisay bhi honge’2000, ‘Diana-The princess of Love’2000, ‘Bohat nazdeek aate Jaa Rahe ho’2001.