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)
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
OccupationNovelist, Urdu poet, and film songs lyricist
Years active1945 – 1992
Notable awardsWon 3 Filmfare 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, writer and a Bollywood lyricist.

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 Sanskrit epic, the Mahabharata from ancient India.

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