Amrita Pritam's companion, artist and poet Imroz passes away at 97

Poet Amrita Pritam's long-time companion, artist and poet Imroz died at the age of 97 on Friday. He passed away at his Mumbai residence. Inderjeet alias Imroz is known for keeping Amrita Pritam alive even after her death.

Imroz was suffering from age-related issues and his demise was confirmed by his close acquaintance , Amiya Kunwar.

She said, "He was taking food through a pipe. But never for a day did he forget Amrita. He would hate it if someone would talk of her in the past tense. He would say ‘Amrita hai, yahin hai’. Imroz might have left the physical world today but he has only joined Amrita up in the heavens and their love story is not the one that would die with their physical passing. It would only get more beautiful for the world to remember."

Imroz was born on January 26, 1926, at Chak number 36 in Lyallpur of undivided Punjab. He wrote four poetry books and all of them had poems dedicated to Amrita.

Amrita Pritam and Imroz never married but they were in a live-in relationship for 40 years. Amrita's popular and last poetic work ‘Main tainu pher milangi’ in 2004 was for Imroz.

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