awed Hamid was born on 17th December 1949 at Muradabad (Uttar Pradesh). He completed his B.Sc.(Engineering) and was working for around 20 years in the Health Ministry of Saudi Arabia as a Biomedical Engineer after which he started independent writing. He has been a film enthusiast since many decades and was fascinated by Hindi films, songs and artists associated with them. He always felt that the information in the public domain on various artists of Hindi films has been quite limited and the various aspects of their work need to be highlighted for the average cinegoer. This feeling led to his first book and then many more, initially in Urdu (11 Nos) and later Hindi (11 Nos). These include books on lyricists, comedians, villains, composers, actors, Dilip Kumar and other artists. This is his first book in English. He is now Noida based.

Gajendra Khanna, born into a music loving Punjabi family has stayed across India and currently resides in Bangalore. An engineer by profession, he holds an M.Tech. degree in Computer Technology from IIT Delhi. Other than computing, he has interest in literature, writing, linguistics and collecting music and movies. He is the maintainer for a general artist website on artists called Anmol Fankaar as well as dedicated websites on singers Geeta Dutt, Noorjehan and Shamshad Begum in his spare time. He is a Life Member of the Society of Indian Record Collectors and the Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers. He is also a published poet and writer whose first book titled “PhirAayi Diwali: Jeevan Ke Naam” was recently self published and is available on various platforms online like pothi.com, notion press, Flipkart and Amazon.