Gopal Singh Nepali

The names of famous poetry collections such as Umang, Ragini, panchhi, Neelima, Himalaya ne Pukara etc. Are notable in their important works. He also wrote collections of Nepali poem as 'Kalpana'. He was also a journalist and edited at least four Hindi magazines, namely, Ratlam Times, Chitrapat, Sudha, and Yogi. He was very respected along with his contemporaries Mahadevi Verma, Sumitranandan Pant, Suryakant Tripathi, Ramdhari Sigh Dinkar etc. His works have been included in course of different universities of India. During Sino-Indian War of 1962, he wrote many patriotic songs and poems which include Savan. He died at a premature age of 51 on 17 April 1963 in Bhagalpur Railway Junction platform no.

• Year — Film — Songs written — Music Director(s) — Notes • 1945 — Begum — 9 (All) — Hari Prasanna Das • Mazdoor — 6 (All) • 1946 — 8 Days — 3-5 — Sachin Dev Burman • Shikari — 11 (All) • Safar — 10 (All) — Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar • 1947 — Ahinsa — 2 • Leela — 5 • 1948 — Aap Beeti — 1 — Haribhai • Chaubeji alias Hip Hip Hurray — Atleast 3 — Hanuman Prasad • Anokha Pyar — 1 — Anil Krishna Biswas • Gajre — 10 (All) • Hum Bhi Insan Hain — 10 (All) — Hari Prasanna Das & Manna Dey • 1949 — Kamal — 3 — Sachin Dev Burman • Main Abala Nahin Hoon — 9 (All) — M. Golwalkar & Shanta Apte • Nazrana — 5 (All) — Ramchandra Narhar Chitalkar • 1952 — Bhakt Puran — 3 — Chitragupta Srivastava • 1953 — Naag Panchami — 7 (All) • 1954 — Durga Puja — 2 — Shri Nath Tripathi • Khushboo — 11 (All) — Shankar Dasgupta • Raj Yogi Bharthari — Atleast 2 — Shankar Rao Vyas • Tilottama — 8 (All) — Shri Nath Tripathi • Saltanat — 4 — Chitragupta Srivastava • Shivratri — 8 (All) • Toote Khilone — 1 or 2 • Tulsidas — 10 (All) • 1955 — Mahasati Savitri — 9 (All) • Navratri — 6 • Raj Kanya — 8 (All) • Rajdarbar — 2 • Sati Madalsa — 9 (All) • Shiv Bhakta — 14 (All) • Shri Ganesh Vivah — 4 • Shree Krishna Bhakti — 8 (All) • Waman Avtar alias Bali Raja — 6 — Avinash Anandrai Vyas • Veer Rajputani — 9 (All) — Bulo C. Rani • 1956 — Aabroo — 2 • Gauri Puja — 8 (All) — Manna Dey • Jayshri — 7 — Chitragupta Srivastava • Talwar Ka Dhani — 3 • Sati Naagkanya — 3 — Shri Nath Tripathi • Sudarshan Chakra — 8 (All) — Avinash Anandrai Vyas • 1957 — Nag Lok — 2 — Ram Lal Heerapanna • Narsi Bhagat — 11 (All) — Ravi Shankar Sharma — One of the songs of this film "Darshan Do Ghanshyam" sung by Manna Dey, Hemant Kumar & Sudha Malhotra appeared in a quiz question in the Oscar-winning film Slumdog Millionaire (2008). The lead character of the film Jamal Malik (Dev Patel) was asked to identify the poet who wrote this song and answered Surdas. According to the quizmaster of the film Prem Kumar (Anil Kapoor), this was the right answer. However, in reality, the song was actually written by Gopal Singh Nepali, inspired by the words of the 15th century Gujarati poet Narsinh Mehta, whose biopic this film was. Music director Ravi sued the makers of Slumdog Millionaire & demanded damages of Rs. 20 crores for using this song in their film without his permission. The hook lines of the song "Vaishnav Jan Toh Tene Kahiye" (Part 2) sung by Manna Dey were taken from a poem written by Narsinh Mehta, the remaining lyrics were penned by Gopal Singh Nepali. • Neelmani — 4 — Chitragupta Srivastava • Pavan Putra Hanuman — 6 • 1958 — Maya Bazaar — 5 • Naag Champa — 3 — Manna Dey • 1959 — Nai Raahen — 2 — Ravi Shankar Sharma • 1961 — Apsara — Atleast 2 — Husnlal-Bhagatram • Jai Bhavani alias Rajput Ramani — 8 (All) — Mohinder Singh Sarna • 1966 — Sunehre Kadam — 2 — Bulo C. Rani — Posthomous release