Mahadevi Varma

Mahadevi Varma is a renowned Hindi poet. She is indubitably compared 18th century England poets like Keats, Shelley, Wordsworth, Byron, etc for her poems. She is famous for Chhayavadi School of poetry.

She participated in many Kavi Sammelan. Although she has only a few literary works, she is considered to be modern Meera. For her immense contribution to the world of Hindi literature, she received the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1979 and Jnanpith Award in 1982.

She was also the recipient of Padma Bhushan in 1955 and Padma Vibhushan in 1988. She held the vice chancellor post in Prayag Mahila Vidyapeeth, a woman's residential college. Her literary poems were even featured as album songs.

It is said that four of her poems were composed by music director Jaidev and sung by Asha Bhosle Asha is considered to be the second greatest femal >> Read More... . It has beautiful rendition by the singer Asha Bhosle. Jaidev is the only music director for whom even singer like Lata Mangeshkar found very difficult to take the pitch of any song.

Lata told once Jaidev was the most challenging among the composers. Jaidev has won three times 'the national award' for music composition. It was for Vijay Talwar's movie ‘Trikon Ka Chautha Khon,' Mahadevi's Varma's poem was turned into lyrics.

The song was sung by Chhaya Ganguly   Chhaya Ganguly (Ganguli) is a well-known Indian >> Read More... . Music for this song was composed by Jaidev. The song was posturized on Priyadarshini and Vijayendra Ghatge Vijayendra Ghatge is an Indian television and film >> Read More... . Some of her literary works which Asha Bhosle had sung include Madhur Madhur mere Deepak Jal, Tum So Jao Main Gaoon, Jo Tum Aa Jaate Ik Baar, etc.

It was only Asha Bhosle who could turn all these poetries of Mahadevi Varma into a precious, precious musical piece. The musical note was somewhat like Ghazal. Jaidev is also often literally praised for his Ghazal albums. Mahadevi Varma was born on 26 March 1907 in Agra and passed away in Allahabad on 11 September 1987.