A commemorative postage stamp on Shakeel Badayuni, an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist and songwriter in Bollywood, 3 times recipient of Filmfare Best Lyricist Award (1961-63) [a part of the series ‘100 Years of Indian Cinema‘] :

Issued by India

Issued on May 3, 2013

Credits :
Stamp & FDC : Kamleshwar Singh
Cancellation : Nenu Gupta

Type : Miniature Sheet, Mint Condition

Colour : Multi colour

Denomination : 500 Paisa

Printing Process : Wet Offset

Printer : Security Printing Press, Hyderabad

Name : Shakeel Badayuni

Born on Aug 3, 1916 at Badaun, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India [now in Uttar Pradesh]

Died on Apr 20, 1970 at Bombay, Maharashtra, India

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