Vasant Dev

Vasant Deo is an Indian writer, lyricist and screenwriter and a Hindi academic at Parle College in Mumbai.^[1] He worked in Hindi parallel cinema through the 1980s, working with directors like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani and Mahesh Bhatt. He is best known for "Saanjh Dhale Gagan Tale" sung by Suresh Wadkar, and "Mann Kyun Behka", a Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle duet in Utsav (1984) directed by Girish Karnad. He wrote plays and poetry in Marathi, and Marathi to Hindi translator.

Filmography

National Film Award for Best Lyrics

1968–1980	Kannadasan (1968) Kaifi Azmi (1969) No Award (1970) No Award (1971) Vayalar Ramavarma (1972) No Award (1973) Sri Sri (1974) No Award (1975) No Award (1976) No Award (1977) No Award (1978) No Award (1979) No Award (1980)

1981–2000	No Award (1981) No Award (1982) No Award (1983) Vasant Dev (1984) Vairamuthu (1985) No Award (1986) Gulzar (1987) O. N. V. Kurup (1988) Satarupa Sanyal (1989) Gulzar (1990) K. S. Narasimhaswamy (1991) Vairamuthu (1992) Veturi Sundararama Murthy (1993) Vairamuthu (1994) Amit Khanna (1995) Javed Akhtar (1996) Javed Akhtar (1997) Javed Akhtar (1998) Vairamuthu (1999) Yusufali Kechery and Javed Akhtar (2000)

2001–present	Javed Akhtar (2001) Vairamuthu (2002) Suddala Ashok Teja (2003) P. Vijay (2004) Baraguru Ramachandrappa (2005) Swanand Kirkire (2006) Prasoon Joshi (2007) Anindya Chatterjee and Chandril Bhattacharya (2008) Swanand Kirkire (2009) Vairamuthu (2010) Amitabh Bhattacharya (2011) Prasoon Joshi (2012) Na. Muthukumar (2013) Na. Muthukumar (2014) Varun Grover (2015)

Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist

1959-1980	Shailendra (1959) Shailendra (1960) Shakeel Badayuni (1961) Shakeel Badayuni (1962) Shakeel Badayuni (1963) Sahir Ludhianvi (1964) Majrooh Sultanpuri (1965) Rajendra Krishan (1966) Hasrat Jaipuri (1967) Gulshan Kumar Mehta (1968) Shailendra (1969) Neeraj (1970) Verma Malik (1971) Hasrat Jaipuri (1972) Verma Malik (1973) Gulshan Kumar Mehta (1974) Santosh Anand (1975) Indeevar (1976) Sahir Ludhianvi (1977) Gulzar (1978) Anand Bakshi (1979) Gulzar (1980)

1981-2000	Gulzar (1981) Anand Bakshi (1982) Santosh Anand (1983) Gulzar (1984) Hasan Kamal (1985) Vasant Dev (1986) no award (1987) no award (1988) Gulzar (1989) Asad Bhopali (1990) Sameer (1991) Gulzar (1992) Sameer (1993) Sameer (1994) Javed Akhtar (1995) Anand Bakshi (1996) Javed Akhtar (1997) Javed Akhtar (1998) Gulzar (1999) Anand Bakshi (2000)

2001-present	Javed Akhtar (2001) Javed Akhtar (2002) Gulzar (2003) Javed Akhtar (2004) Javed Akhtar (2005) Gulzar (2006) Prasoon Joshi (2007) Prasoon Joshi (2008) Javed Akhtar (2009) Irshad Kamil (2010) Gulzar (2011) Irshad Kamil (2012) Gulzar (2013) Prasoon Joshi (2014) Rashmi Singh (2015) Irshad Kamil (2016)

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