Raajesh Johri

Raajesh Johri was born on June 19, 1952. He was an Indian poet, lyricist, advertising film director, voice-over artist, and anchor in India. Sunita Rao's Pari Hoon Main Pari Hoon Mai is an Indian fantasy television seri >> Read More... , Hariharan, and Leslie Lewis' Colonial Cousins, Jojo's Subha Jab Khidki Khole, Anup Jalota's Tere Mann Mein Ram are among Johri's significant works as a lyricist. Raajesh was born in Pilani, Uttar Pradesh, in the year 1952. His father, Dr. A. N. Johri, was an author and a professor of English Literature, and his mother, Chandra Johri, was a well-educated woman. Raajesh was the third of three brothers and two sisters in his family. He was artistically interested from an early age, and at the age of ten, he wrote his first poem. He was passionate about music and literature. He was reported in one of his interviews as stating that his father's paternal grandmother, Heera Kunwar, used to write bhajans in honor of Lord Krishna, and that's where he got it.

Raajesh obtained his elementary education in Rajasthan. As his father had a transferable profession, he spent his youth in Chandausi, Khurja, and finally Saharanpur, where he earned his bachelor's degree in Science from Jain College in 1972. His parents wanted him to become an engineer, so they enrolled him in a Physics M.Sc. program. However, one day before his 20th birthday, he took a train from Saharanpur to Mumbai to become a writer. He went on his voyage to the city of his dreams with no connections to the business, resulting in a one-person battle.

In 1986, Raajesh married Archana Johri, a screenplay writer, anchor, and poet by profession. Ratika and Rashee Johri are his two daughters. Ratika, the older, is a vocalist who has contributed her voice to several albums, serials, and films. Rashee, the younger, is a choreographer, director, and anchor. Raajesh Johri won the "Best Lyric Writer Award" from the "Uttar Pradesh Patrakaar Sangh," Lt. R. Venkat Raman, the former President of India, for penning the BSF Song for the film Aakarshan.

RAPA Radio and T.V. Advertising Practitioners Association Mumbai awarded him for writing a radio commercial for the product "Vardhaman Knitting Yarn" "Salam India Award." Gujarat Association, Mumbai, presented him with the "Gurjari Award." For a few years, Johri has been suffering from renal illness. He died due to cardiac arrest on March 1, 2017, in Mumbai's Bhartiya Aaroya Nidhi Hospital.