Milind Gadhavi (

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: મિલિન્દ ગઢવી b. 1 May 1985) is a

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poet and lyricist from

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. He has penned songs for several Gujarati movies. He is a recipient of the 15th Transmedia award for best lyrics for Gujarati film, '' Premji: Rise of a Warrior''.

Early life

Gadhavi was born in Datrana, a village in

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taluka of

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to Bharatkumar Gadhavi and Chandanbahen Gadhavi. He was educated in schools and institutions including Roopayatan, Good Samaritan English Medium High School (

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), Gurukul (

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), Carmel Convent High School (Junagadh), St. Xavier's High School ( Jamnagar), St. Mary's School ( Porbandar), Swami Vivekanand Vinay Mandir (Junagadh). He completed his

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in 2009 from

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and M.B.A. in 2011 from the Faculty of Management Studies, M.S. University,

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. He wrote his first poem in 6th standard at the age of 11, and wrote his first ghazal in 8th standard. In 12th standard, he learned the metres of ghazal and ventured in metrical form.

Career

Gadhavi is an Assistant Manager at Saurashtra Gramin Bank, Junagadh since 2013. His poems have been published in many eminent Gujarati literary magazines including

Shabdasrishti ''Shabdasrishti'' ( gu, શબ્દસૃષ્ટિ, Śabdasr̥ṣṭi, World of Words), the journal of the Gujarat Sahitya Akademi, is a Gujarati literary magazine, published on the fifth of every month. The magazine was started in 1983, a ye ...

Gazalvishwa ''Gazalvishwa'' ( Gujarati: ગઝલવિશ્વ) is a quarterly Gujarati ghazal poetry journal, published by Vali Gujarati Gazal Kendra from Gandhinagar, Gujarat, India since 2006. The journal publishes ghazals, ghazal reviews, critical work ...

, Dhabak, Kumar, Kavita, Navneet Samarpan, Uddesh, Akhand Anand, Shabdalay and Tamanna. He has recited his poems at Doordarshan, Akashvani, Asmitaparva and other places of Gujarat. In July 2015, he recited his poems in Maanas Dharmrath Mushayra at

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Works

Although Gadhavi has written in many different genres of poetry including ghazal, nazm,

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, sonnet,

free verse Free verse is an open form of poetry, which in its modern form arose through the French '' vers libre'' form. It does not use consistent meter patterns, rhyme, or any musical pattern. It thus tends to follow the rhythm of natural speech. Defi ...

, muktak, tripadi, anjani,

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and

villanelle A villanelle, also known as villanesque,Kastner 1903 p. 279 is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five tercets followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first tercet rep ...

, his main contribution is ghazal. The tender feelings of a young lover's heart and the disappointment from a lover's absence are the two sides of his ghazals. He penned 1 song, ''"''Me to suraj ne ropyo chhe aangne''"'', for the Gujarati movie '' Premji: Rise of a Warrior'' and started his career as a

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. He has penned two songs for the film '' Thai Jashe!'' (both sung by Parthiv Gohil) and one song for "''I Wish"'', an upcoming Gujarati movie.

Filmography

Awards

Gadhavi won the 15th Transmedia award for best lyrics in film Premji: Rise of a Warrior.

References