MUMBAI: PK Mishra, the lyricist of the catchy number, â€?Dil Hai Chhota Sa, Choti Si Aasha’ and â€?Bharat humko jaan se pyaara hai’ from Roja, passed away on Wednesday at a city hospital in Chennai.
Mishra was admitted in a Chennai hospital’s intensive care unit on December 19 for a mutli-organ dysfunction. The 65 year old lyricist expired on Wednesday at 11.45 am and is survived by his wife and two sons.
In the 1990s when a number of Tamil films were being remade in Hindi, Rajasthan-born Mishra wrote lyrics for several popular Hindi numbers. Penning for tracks like â€?Choti si aasha’ and â€?Bharat humko jaan se pyaara hai’, Mishra teamed up with Rahman in many such movies like Roja in 1993.
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Mishra has also worked with Ilayaraja and Karthik Raja, and his list of films include Hindusthani’, Hamse Hai Muqabala’, Thalapathi, My Brother Nikhil, Saza-e-Kalapani’, Duniya Dil Walonki’, Viswa Vidhata’, Love Birds and the most recent, Mukhbiir.
