Rahi Masoom Raza

Rahi Masoom Raza
Born(1927-09-01)1 September 1927
Ganguali, United Provinces, British India (present-day Uttar Pradesh, India)
Died15 March 1992(1992-03-15) (aged 64)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
OccupationNovelist, Urdu poet, and lyricist
Years active1945–1992
Notable awardsFilmfare Award for Best Dialogue
RelativesParvati Khan (daughter-in-law)

Rahi Masoom Raza (1 September 1927 – 15 March 1992) was an Indian Urdu and Hindi poet and writer and a Bollywood lyricist.[1] He won the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue three times, for his work in Main Tulsi Tere Aangan Ki (1979), Tawaif (1985) and Lamhe (1991). He is best known for writing the screenplay and dialogues for the television series Mahabharat, which was based on the ancient Indian epic, the Mahabharata.

  1. ^ "लेखक परिचय" (PDF). संचयन भाग 2 (in Hindi). New Delhi: NCERT. p. 47. ISBN 81-7450-665-9. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 April 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2020.