The recipient of numerous awards, including Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist in 1985 for the title song of the film Aaj Ki Aawaz (1984), he started his career in 1981 with "Sar Se Sarke" song from Silsila.
He graduated from the Lucknow University and began his journalistic career as a Sub-editor of Blitz Weekly in 1965.
He is a popular columnist with a regular column in Inquilab, Rozanama Rashtriya Sahara, Etmaad and Al-Bagh.
It was also the comeback of prominent composer of the sixties, Ravi and the debut of Salma Agha as both an actress and singer.
The songs took the industry by a storm and made Salma and Hasan overnight stars.