Annu Rizvi: Actually, my maternal uncle and other elders in my family were into Shayari and hence a similar atmosphere was there in the family from childhood. I was interested in writing and hence I started writing songs at an early age. But I loved writing as my hobby, I never thought of it as a career. After that, I came to Delhi from my village and joined the Navbharat Times. After that, I started writing for other newspapers and magazines. In the process, I kept writing poetry as a hobby. Then, later on, I wrote the title track of a show named 'Meri Saheli' which used to air on Star TV and was based on women and their lives. I also wrote the title song of a 26-episode long sports show with Kapil Dev called 'Different Strokes'. The song was sung by Suresh Wadkar and the music was given by Vishal Bharadwaj. So, I have done many similar projects, but I never did them for money because I had already switched over to the television industry from Navbharat Times. In 2015, I went to Mumbai to write lyrics in films and it was a great journey, I met many new people who loved my work but I couldn't continue further because my wife was unwell. She got diagnosed with blood cancer. So I had to return. Sadly, we lost her in September last year. So yeah, that's what my journey looks like, however, I still do get calls from Mumbai. I recently wrote a song for News24 on coronavirus and after listening to that song, I also received a call from the Prime Minister's Office asking for a song. So I wrote another one. Pravesh Mallick was my music director in both the songs.
