His celebrated lyrics were also used in Aap to aise na the, Is Raat Ki Subah Nahin (1996) and Gudiya. Nida wrote the final two songs and attracted the notice of other Hindi filmmakers. The original songwriter Jan Nisar Akhtar working on the film Razia Sultan (1983) had died before completing the project. His career improved when Kamal Amrohi, a filmmaker, approached him. As a result he was boycotted in some poetic sessions. He wrote essays critical of contemporary poets of the sixties in his book Mulaqatein which outraged poets including Sahir Ludhianvi, Ali Sardar Jafri and Kaifi Azmi. Some of his famous film songs include Aa Bhi Jaa (Sur), Tu Is Tarha Se Meri zindagi mein Shaamil hai (Aap To Aise Na The) and Hosh Waalon Ko Kya Khabar (Sarfarosh). He wrote the famous couplet: 'Duniya jise kehte hain jaadu kaa Khilona hai Mil jaaye to mitti hai kho jaaye to sona hai'. Nida Fazli became known among readers and ghazal singers for his elegant presentation and exclusive use of colloquial language for ghazals, dohaas and nazms while avoiding ornate Persian imagery and compound words to simplify his poetry. He was often invited to Mushairas, the prestigious recitation sessions of one’s own poetry. His poetic style attracted the notice of filmmakers and writers of Hindi and Urdu literature. In the early days of his career, he wrote in Dharmayug and Blitz dialects. Nida Fazli came to Mumbai in search of a job in 1964. Eliot, Gogol, Anton Chekhov and Takasaki. He was fascinated by the lyrical mood of Meera and Kabir and widened his knowledge of poetry by studying T.S. He absorbed the essence of Mir and Ghalib to express what he intended. The poetic beauty of the Pad, relating to the close rapport and bonding between human beings, inspired Nida to begin writing poems.ĭuring that period he felt that there were limitations of Urdu poetry. The young poet passed a Hindu temple where a bhajan singer was singing a composition of Surdas about Radha sharing her sorrow with her maids at being separated from her beloved Krishna. During the Partition of India his parents migrated to Pakistan but Fazli decided to stay in India. Fazli was born in Delhi, India and attended school in Gwalior.