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{{short description|Indian Urdu poet}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Kaifi Azmi
| image = Kaifi Azmi.jpg
| caption =
| birth_name = Athar Husain Rizvi<ref>{{cite web |title=Kaifi Azmi - A Rebellious Poet |url=http://www.azmikaifi.com/life-sketch-of-the-legend/ |website=Kaifi Azmi |access-date=30 October 2020}}</ref>
| birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1919|1|14}}
| birth_place = [[Azamgarh district|Mizwaan]], [[United Provinces of Agra and Oudh]], [[British Raj|British India]] (now in [[Uttar Pradesh]], [[India]])
| death_place = [[Mumbai]], [[Maharashtra]], [[India]]
| occupation = {{hlist|Poet|lyricist|songwriter}}
| death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|2002|5|10|1919|1|14}}
| spouse = {{Unbulleted list|[[Shaukat Kaifi]]}}
| children = {{Unbulleted list|[[Shabana Azmi]]|[[Baba Azmi]]}}
| awards = [[National Film Award for Best Lyrics]] (1970) [[Padma Shri|Padma Shri Award in Art]] (1974) [[Sahitya Akademi Award]] (1975) [[Sahitya Akademi Fellow]] (2002)
| website = {{URL|azmikaifi.com}}
}}
{{Progressive Writers' Movement}}

'''Kaifi Azmi''' (born '''Athar Husain Rizvi'''; 14 January 1919 – 10 May 2002) was an Indian [[Urdu]] [[poet]]. He is remembered as the one who brought [[Urdu literature]] to Indian motion pictures.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=स्पर्श भाग 2|publisher=NCERT|isbn=81-7450-647-0|location=New Delhi, India|pages=41|language=hi|chapter=कर चले हम फ़िदा|chapter-url=http://ncertbooks.prashanthellina.com/class_10.Hindi.Sparsh/K-8.pdf}}</ref> Together with [[Pirzada Qasim]], [[Jaun Elia]] and others he participated in many memorable [[Mushaira]] gatherings of the twentieth century.<ref>{{cite news |title=Shabana Azmi launches website to honour father Kaifi Azmi |url=https://www.dnaindia.com/entertainment/report-shabana-azmi-launches-website-to-honour-father-kaifi-azmi-2002666 |access-date=30 October 2020 |work=DNA India |date=16 July 2014 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=PTI |title=Shabana Azmi launches website to honour father Kaifi Azmi |url=http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/shabana-azmi-launches-website-to-honour-father-kaifi-azmi/1/372810.html |access-date=30 October 2020 |work=India Today |date=17 July 2014 |language=en}}</ref> His wife is theater and film actress [[Shaukat Kaifi]].<ref name=MG/>

==Early life==
Azmi was born into a [[Shia]] [[Muslim]] family in the village of Mizwaan in [[Azamgarh district]] of [[Uttar Pradesh]].<ref name=":0" /><ref name=upperstall>{{cite web|url=https://upperstall.com/profile/kaifi-azmi/ |author=Karan Bali|title=Kaifi Azmi - profile|website=Upperstall.com website|date=2014|accessdate=1 March 2021}}</ref>

==Family==
He was from a family of artists. His three brothers are also [[Shayar (poet)|shayars (poets)]]. Azmi was married to [[Shaukat Azmi]]. They have a daughter, [[Shabana Azmi]] who is an actress,<ref name=":0" /> and a son, [[Baba Azmi]], a cinematographer. Azmi's daughter-in-law [[Tanvi Azmi]] is also an actress.<ref name=upperstall/><ref name=MG/>

==Career==

===Writings===
At age eleven, Azmi wrote his first ghazal in [[Bahraich]] ''Itna To Zindagi Mein Kisi Ki Khalal Pade'' and somehow managed to get himself invited to a ''[[mushaira]]'' and over there, he recited a ghazal, rather a couplet of the ghazal which was very much appreciated by the president of the mushaira, Mani Jaisi, but most of the people, including his father, thought he recited his elder brother's ghazal.<ref>{{cite news |title=Remembering Kaifi Azmi, the people's poet |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/express-sunday-eye/peoples-poet-5594273/ |access-date=6 October 2020 |work=The Indian Express |date=3 March 2019 |language=en}}</ref> When his elder brother denied it, his father and his clerk decided to test his poetic talent. They gave him one of the lines of a couplet and asked him to write a ghazal in the same meter and rhyme. Azmi accepted the challenge and completed a ghazal. This particular ghazal was to become a rage in undivided India and it was immortalised as it was sung by legendary ghazal singer, [[Begum Akhtar]]. Azmi abandoned his studies of Persian and Urdu during the [[Quit India movement|Quit India]] agitations in 1942 and shortly thereafter became a full-time [[Marxist]] when he accepted membership of the [[Communist Party of India]] in 1943. During this period, the leading progressive writers of Lucknow noticed him. They were very impressed by his leadership qualities. They also saw in him a budding poet and extended all possible encouragement towards him. Consequently, Azmi started to win great acclaim as a poet and became a member of [[Progressive Writers' Movement]] of India. At the age of twenty-four, he started activities in the textile mill areas of [[Kanpur]]. As a full-time worker, he left his life of comfort, though he was the son of a zamindar. He was asked to shift his base to [[Bombay]], work amongst the workers and start party work with a lot of zeal and enthusiasm.<ref name=upperstall/>

===Poetry===
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Kar chale hum fida jan-o-tan sathion 
ab tumhare hawale watan sathio 
zinda rahne ki mausam bahut hai magar 
jan dene ki rut roz ati nahi 
husn aur ishq dono ko ruswa kare 
wo jawani jo khu me nahati nahi 
aaj dharti bani hai dulhan sathio 
Kar Chale hum Fida Jaan-o-Tan Sathio 
|-
| style="text-align: left;" | Kaifi Azmi
|-
| style="text-align: right;" |
I sacrifice now, this life and body, o friends... 
the nation is in your hands now, o friends... 
so many seasons are there to live, but... 
the season to give up one's life doesn't come often, ... 
leaving behind both, the beauty & the love, 
of what value is that youth, which doesn't bathe in blood... 
today the earth has become my bride, o friends 
I sacrifice now, this body and life, o friends... 
|}
[[File:Kaifi Azmi in Annual Mushaira.JPG|thumb|350px|[[Syed Mahmood Khundmiri]] introducing Kaifi Azami in Annual Mushaira in Chicago.]]
Like most of the Urdu poets, Azmi began as a ghazal writer, cramming his poetry with the repeated themes of love and romance in a style that was replete with clichés and metaphors. However, his association with the [[Progressive Writers' Movement]] and Communist Party made him embark on the path of socially conscious poetry. In his poetry, he highlights the exploitation of the subaltern masses and through them he conveys a message of the creation of a just social order by dismantling the existing one. Yet, his poetry cannot be called plain propaganda. It has its own merits; intensity of emotions, in particular, and the spirit of sympathy and compassion towards the disadvantaged section of society, are the hallmark of his poetry. His poems are also notable for their rich imagery and in this respect, his contribution to Urdu poetry can hardly be overstated.<ref name=upperstall/> Azmi's first collection of poems, ''Jhankar'' was published in 1943. His important works including anthologies of poetry, were ''Aakhir-e-Shab'',<ref name=":0" /> ''Sarmaya'', ''Awaara Sajde'', ''Kaifiyaat'', ''Nai Gulistan'', an anthology of articles he wrote for ''Urdu Blitz'', ''Meri Awaaz Suno'',<ref name=":0" /> a selection of his film lyrics, and the script of ''Heer Ranjha'' in [[Devanagari]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Kaifi Azmi |url=http://www.rediff.com/tags/kaifi-azmi |access-date=2 March 2021 |work=Rediff}}</ref>

His best known poems are ''Aurat'', ''Makaan'', ''Daaera'', ''Sanp'', and ''Bahuroopni''.

===Films===
Azmi's work in films includes working as a lyricist, writer, and actor. Azmi wrote his first lyrics for the film ''Buzdil'', directed by [[Shaheed Latif]] and music by SD Burman, released in 1951. His early work as a writer was mainly for [[Nanubhai Vakil]]'s films like ''Yahudi Ki Beti'' (1956), ''Parvin'' (1957), ''Miss Punjab Mail'' (1958) and ''Id Ka Chand'' (1964). While directors like [[Khwaja Ahmad Abbas]] and [[Bimal Roy]] strove to create the "New Cinema", writers like [[Sahir Ludhianvi]], [[Jan Nisar Akhtar]], [[Majrooh Sultanpuri]], and Kaifi changed the tenor and vocabulary of the Hindi film song, creating a fresh new wave in Hindi film lyrics that lasted many years.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kaifi|url=http://www.kaifiaurmain.com/kaifi.html|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071103123646/http://www.kaifiaurmain.com/kaifi.html|archive-date=2007-11-03|website=kaifiaurmain.com}}</ref> His greatest feat as a writer was [[Chetan Anand (producer and director)|Chetan Anand]]'s ''[[Heer Raanjha]]'' (1970) wherein the entire dialogue of the film was in verse. It was a tremendous achievement and one of the greatest feats of Hindi film writing. Azmi also won great critical accolades for the script, dialogues and lyrics of [[M.S. Sathyu]]'s ''[[Garam Hawa]]'' (1973), based on a story by [[Ismat Chughtai]]. Azmi also wrote the dialogues for [[Shyam Benegal]]'s ''[[Manthan]]'' (1976) and Sathyu's ''Kanneshwara Rama'' (1977). As a lyricist and songwriter, though he wrote for numerous films, he will always be remembered for [[Guru Dutt]]'s ''[[Kaagaz Ke Phool]]'' (1959) and [[Chetan Anand (producer & director)|Chetan Anand]]'s ''[[Haqeeqat (1964 film)|Haqeeqat]]'' (1964), India's greatest war film. Some notables films for which he wrote lyrics include ''[[Kohra (1964 film)|Kohra]]'' (1964), ''[[Anupama (1966 film)|Anupama]]'' (1966), ''Uski Kahani'' (1966), ''[[Saat Hindustani]]'' (1969), ''[[Shola Aur Shabnam (1961 film)|Shola Aur Shabnam]]'', ''[[Parwana (1971 film)|Parwana]]'' (1971), ''[[Bawarchi]]'' (1972), ''[[Pakeezah]]'' (1972), ''[[Hanste Zakhm]]'' (1973), ''[[Arth (film)|Arth]]'' (1982) and ''[[Razia Sultan (film)|Razia Sultan]]'' (1983). For ''[[Naunihal]]'' (1967), he wrote the song "Meri Aawaz Suno Pyar ka Raaz Suno" (Hear my voice, hear the secret of love) sung by [[Mohammad Rafi]]. The song is picturised over the funeral procession of Prime Minister of India, [[Jawahar Lal Nehru]]. Years later, after Azmi's own death his daughter, [[Shabana Azmi]] mentioned finding comfort in verses from the song.<ref name="MalusteDoshi2008">{{cite book|author1=Avanti Maluste|author2=Sudeep Doshi|title=A Poem for Cry: Favourite Poems of Famous Indians|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_W_VInswNiYC&pg=PA26|access-date=2 March 2021|date=9 January 2008|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-670-04998-1|pages=26–}}</ref> Azmi wrote the lyrics for ''[[Bible Ki Kahaniyan]]'', the first Christian mythological television show broadcast in India.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bible Ki Kahaniya |url=https://nettv4u.com/about/Hindi/tv-serials/bible-ki-kahaniya |website=nettv4u |language=en}}</ref> He also played a memorable role of Naseem's grandfather in ''[[Naseem (film)|Naseem]]'' (1995). Azmi died on 10 May 2002 at around the age of eighty-three. He was survived by his wife, daughter, and son. His autobiography is included in a collection of his works, ''Aaj Ke Prashid Shayar: Kaifi Azmi''.<ref name=upperstall/>

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|-
! Year
! Title
! Role
! Notes
|-
|1995|| ''[[Naseem (film)|Naseem]]'' || Naseem's Grandfather || Actor
|}
{| class="wikitable"
|+FILMOGRAPHY<ref>{{Cite web|title=Kaifi Azmi|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0044340/|access-date=2021-12-28|website=IMDb}}</ref>
!YEAR
!TITLE
!ROLE
!NOTES
|-
|1951
|Buzdil
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1953
|Bahu Beti
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1955
|Hatimtai Ki Beti
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1956
|[[Yahudi Ki Beti]]
|Writer
|
|-
|1957
|Pravin
|Writer
|
|-
|1958
|Sone Ki Chidiya
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1958
|[[Lala Rookh|Lala Rukh]]
|Lyricist
|Uncredited
|-
|1958
|Miss Punjab Mail
|Writer
|
|-
|1959
|[[Paper Flowers (1959 film)|Paper Flowers]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1960
|Apna Haath Jagannath
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1961
|Shama
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1961
|[[Shola Aur Shabnam (1961 film)|Shola Aur Shabnam]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1961
|Razia Sultana
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1962
|Nakli Nawab
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1962
|[[Gyara Hazar Ladkian]]
|Writer
|
|-
|1964
|The Fog
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1964
|Id Ka Chand
|Writer
|
|-
|1964
|Main Suhagan Hoon
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1964
|[[Haqeeqat (1964 film)|Haqeeqat]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1965
|Chor Darwaza
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1965
|Alor Pipasa
|Lyricist
|[[Bengali language|Bengali]]
|-
|1966
|[[Anupama (1966 film)|Anupama]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1966
|[[Do Dilon Ki Dastaan (1966 film)|Do Dil]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1966
|[[Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1966
|[[Aakhri Khat]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1967
|[[Naunihal]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1968
|[[Anokhi Raat]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1969
|[[Saat Hindustani]]
|Lyricist
|Won 'National Film Award' for Best Lyrics - Song: "Aandhi Aaye Ki Toofan"
|-
|1969
|[[Satyakam]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1970
|Hamara Adhikar
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1970
|Dagabaaz
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1970
|[[Heer Raanjha]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1970
|Maharaja
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1970
|[[Maa Ka Aanchal]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1971
|Parwana
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1971
|Do Boond Pani
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1972
|[[Rivaaj]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1972
|[[Pakeezah]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1972
|[[Bawarchi]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1973
|[[Naina (1973 film)|Naina]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1973
|[[Alam Ara (1973 film)|Alam Ara]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1973
|[[Hanste Zakhm]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1973
|[[Hindustan Ki Kasam]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1974
|[[Faslah]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1974
|[[Garm Hava]]
|Lyricist, Writer
|Won 'National Film' for Best Story (with Ismat Chughtai). 'Filmfare Award' for Best Dialogue, Best Story (with Ismat Chughtai) and Best Screenplay. This movie was India's official submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film in 1974.
|-
|1977
|Dil Aur Patthar
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1977
|[[Shankar Hussain]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1977
|[[Dhoop Chhaon (1977 film)|Dhoop Chhaon]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1979
|Shaitan Mujrim
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1979
|[[Inspector Eagle]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1982
|[[Yeh Nazdeekiyan]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1982
|[[Arth (film)|Arth]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1982
|[[Deedar-E-Yaar]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1982
|[[Lakshmi (1982 film)|Lakshmi]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1982
|[[Suraag (1982 film)|Suraag]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1983
|[[Razia Sultan (film)|Razia Sultan]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1984
|Hum Rahe Na Hum
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1984
|[[Bhavna (film)|Bhavna]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1986
|[[Mere Saath Chal]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1986
|[[Nasihat]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1986
|[[Shart (1986 film)|Shart]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1989
|[[Main Azaad Hoon]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1993
|[[Phir Teri Kahani Yaad Aayee]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|1998
|[[Tamanna (1997 film)|Tamanna]]
|Lyricist
|
|-
|2003
|[[Ek Alag Mausam]]
|Lyricist
|
|}

==In media==
Azmi was the subject of a documentary film called ''Diksha'' (2015), directed by Raman Kumar. In 1997, he recited his own poems for ''Kaifiyaat'', an audio book on his collected works.

''Kaifi Aur Mein'', a play based on his life, his works and the memoir of his wife, [[Shaukat Azmi]] – ''Yadon Ki Rahguzar'' (Down Memory Lane), was written and performed by [[Javed Akhtar]] and [[Shabana Azmi]], and performed in India as well as abroad in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Singh|first=Bhupinder|date=3 December 2006|title=Kaifi Aur Main|url=https://readerswords.wordpress.com/2006/12/03/kaifi-aur-main/|access-date=2 March 2021|website=a reader's words|language=en}}</ref> Another play, directed by Rani Balbir, ''Waqt Ne Kiya Kya Hasin Sitam'', based on Kaifi Azmi's life and writings was staged in 2005, and received rave reviews.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Spectrum|url=https://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050320/spectrum/main6.htm|date=20 March 2005|access-date=2 March 2021|work=[[Tribune India|The Sunday Tribune]]}}</ref>

==Awards==
He was the recipient of [[Padma Shri]], India's fourth-highest civilian award in 1974.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |archive-url=https://www.webcitation.org/6U68ulwpb?url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=15 November 2014 |website=Padma Awards Directory (1954 - 2013), Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India website|title=Kaifi Azmi's Padma Shri award in Art in 1974|accessdate=2 March 2021}}</ref> Besides he was awarded the [[Uttar Pradesh Urdu Academy]] Award and the [[List of Sahitya Akademi Award winners for Urdu|Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu]] for his collection ''Awaara Sajde'', Special Award of [[Urdu Academy|Maharashtra Urdu Academy]], Soviet Land Nehru Award, Lotus Award from the Afro-Asian Writers' Association, and [[Rashtrapati Award|President's Award]] for national integration. In 1998, [[Government of Maharashtra]] conferred the Jyaneshwara Award on him. He was also honoured with the prestigious [[List of Sahitya Akademi fellows|Sahitya Akademi Fellowship]] for lifetime achievement.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/fello.htm#awa02|title=List of Fellows And Honorary Fellows Fellows|publisher=SNA Official website|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605094117/http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/fello.htm#awa02|archive-date=5 June 2009|accessdate=2 March 2021}}</ref><ref name=":0" /><ref name=MG/>

Kaifi Azmi returned his Padma Shri in the 1980s after the then [[Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh]] [[Vir Bahadur Singh]] remarked that those speaking Urdu as a second language should be made to sit on a donkey and paraded. According to his daughter [[Shabana Azmi]], her father replied that he had written in Urdu all his life, and if his State’s Chief Minister held such views on the language, he, as a writer, must stand up for himself.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.thehindu.com/entertainment/role-of-arts-not-just-to-entertain-shabana-azmi/article7784352.ece|title=Role of arts not just to entertain: Shabana Azmi |date=20 October 2015|access-date=19 June 2018|newspaper=The Hindu|df=dmy-all}}</ref>

In 2000, he was conferred the first Millennium Award by the [[Government of Delhi]] and the [[Delhi Urdu Academy]]. He has also been honoured with a doctorate from [[Visva-Bharati University|Vishva Bharati University]], [[Santiniketan]].<ref name=MG>{{Cite web|date=1 June 2002|author=Tarique Omum|title=Kaifi Azmi - the last comrade-poet|url=https://www.milligazette.com/Archives/01062002/0106200231.htm|access-date=2 March 2021|website=The Milli Gazette}}</ref>

===Tribute===
[[File:The Speaker, Lok Sabha, Shri Somnath Chatterjee at a function of renaming of the road as “Kaifi Azmi Sadak” in New Delhi on February 22, 2005.jpg|thumb|The Speaker, Lok Sabha, Shri Somnath Chatterjee at a function of renaming of the road as “Kaifi Azmi Sadak” in New Delhi on February 22, 2005]]
The government has also inaugurated a train named "[[Kaifiyat Express]]" which runs from his hometown Azamgarh to Old Delhi.

On 14 January 2020, search engine Google commemorated Kaifi Azmi with a [[Google Doodle|Doodle]] on his 101st birth anniversary.<ref name="Kaifi Azmi on Google Doodle">{{cite web | title=Google Doodle Celebrates Legendary Poet Kaifi Azmi's 101st Birth Anniversary | website=NDTV | date=14 January 2020 | url=https://ndtv.com/india-news/google-doodle-celebrates-legendary-poet-kaifi-azmis-101st-birth-anniversary-2163550%3famp=1&akamai-rum=off| access-date=14 January 2020}}</ref> Google commented: "With work ranging from passionate love poems and activist verses to Bollywood songs lyrics and screenplays, Azmi has become one of the most renowned poets of the 20th century in India, and his humanitarian efforts continue to impact people's lives today."<ref name="Kaifi Azmi's Google Doodle">{{cite web | title=Kaifi Azmi's 101st Birthday | date=1 August 2018 | url=https://www.google.com/doodles/kaifi-azmis-101st-birthday| access-date=14 January 2020}}</ref> There is street also named after him Kaifi Azmi road in [[Hyderabad]]. There is also a road in [[Rama Krishna Puram|R. K. Puram, New Delhi]] named Kaifi Azmi Marg after him.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.kaifiaurmain.com/kaifi.html |date=3 January 2007|website=Indian Peoples' Theatre Association (IPTA) website|title=Kaifi Aur Main - saga of a poet|accessdate=2 March 2021}}</ref>

===Sahitya Akademi Award===
* 1975: [[Sahitya Akademi Award]]: ''Awara Sajde''
* 2002: [[List of Sahitya Akademi fellows|Sahitya Akademi Fellowship]] (''Immortals of Literature'')<ref name=SA>{{cite web|url=http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/fello.htm#awa02 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090605094117/http://www.sahitya-akademi.gov.in/old_version/fello.htm#awa02 |archivedate=5 June 2009|date=6 May 2008|title=Government of India - Sahitya Akademi Fellows List|accessdate=1 March 2021}}</ref>

===National Film Awards===
* 1970: [[National Film Award for Best Lyrics]]: ''[[Saat Hindustani]]''
* 1973: [[National Film Award for Best Story]]: ''[[Garam Hawa]]'' (with [[Ismat Chughtai]])

===Filmfare Awards===
* 1975: [[Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue]]: ''Garam Hawa''
* 1975: [[Filmfare Award for Best Story]]: ''Garam Hawa'' (with Ismat Chughtai)
* 1975: [[Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay]]: ''Garam Hawa''

==Select bibliography==
* ''Kaifi Azmi – Fan Aur Shaqsiyat'' (Urdu), Mayar Publications, 2004.
* ''Kaifiyaat: Kulliyat-e-Kaifi Azmi'' (Urdu), Educational Publishing House, 2003. {{ISBN|8187667788}}.
* ''Zehr-e-Ishq'' (Hindi), Vani Prakashan, 2003.
* ''Heer Ranjha'' (Hindi), Vani Prakshan, 2003.
* ''Steel Man was Here'', [[Penguin India|Penguin]], 2002.
* ''Kaifi Azmi – Selected Poems and Life Sketch'', [[Rajpal & sons|Rajpal Publishers]], 2002. {{ISBN|81-7028-395-7}}.
* ''Aaj Ke Prashid Shayar: Kaifi Azmi – Chuni Hui Shayari'' (Hindi), [[Rajpal & sons|Rajpal & Sons]], 2002. {{ISBN|8170285429}}.
* ''Meri Awaz Suno'' (Hindi), [[Rajkamal Prakashan]], 2002.
* ''Nai Gulistan Vol. 1'' (Hindi), Rajkamal Prakashan, 2001.
* ''Nai Gulistan Vol. 2'' (Hindi), Rajkamal Prakashan, 2001.
* ''Doosra Banwas'' (Hindi), [[Diamond Comics|Diamond Pocket Books Pvt. Ltd.]] {{ISBN|81-288-0982-2}}.
* ''Awara Sajde'' (Hindi), Lokbharti Prakashan, 1995.
* [http://www.kaifiaurmain.com/collection.html ''Sarmaya''] (Urdu), Mayar Publications, 1994.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20040117124834/http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mag/2002/05/19/stories/2002051900280300.htm Kaifi Azmi: Symbol of Resistance] – [[Ranjit Hoskote]]. [[The Hindu]], 19 May 2002.
* [http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/9451468.cms Kaifi Azmi: A Poet and a Gentleman]. [[The Times of India]], 10 May 2002.
* [http://www.milligazette.com/Archives/01062002/0106200231.htm Kaifi Azmi: The Last Comrade-poet] – Tarique Omum. [[The Milli Gazette]]. 1 June 2002.

==References==
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==External links==
* {{official|url=http://www.azmikaifi.com}}
* {{IMDb name|0044340}}
* [https://www.loc.gov/acq/ovop/delhi/salrp/kaifiazmi.html Recordings of Kaifi Azmi at Library of Congress]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20071103123646/http://www.kaifiaurmain.com/kaifi.html kaifiaurmain.com - kaifiaurmain Resources and Information.] Kaifi Aur Main, a tribute site by [[Indian People's Theatre Association|IPTA]].
* [http://aligarians.com/category/poets/kaifi-azmi/ A collection of verses and mushaira recordings by Kaifi Azmi]
* [http://www.urdupoetry.com/kaifi.html Poetry of Kaifi]
*[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eVWU38TP9Mg&feature=youtu.be Film on Kaifi Azmi] by [[National Council of Educational Research and Training|NCERT]]
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