Azad or Azād, from Persian, meaning "free", may refer to:
Cherukuri Rajkumar (alias Azad) (1952 – 1 July 2010) was the spokesperson and one of the seniormost members of the Central Politburo of the banned Maoist group Communist Party of India. On 1 July 2010, he was killed by Andhra Pradesh Police in an encounter.
Rajkumar was born in Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh. He completed his school education from Sainik School Korukonda and graduated from Regional Engineering College, Warangal, the fountainhead of Left ideology in Andhra in the 1970s. He completed his MTech, from National Institute of Technology, Warangal and became a leader of the Radical Students Union which was a breeding ground for many Naxalites.
Rajkumar then joined the People's War Group on whose behalf he used negotiate arms deals and training in handling of weapons and explosives and he went underground. But cases of threat and intimidation apart, he did not have a police record in Andhra Pradesh. After Maoist parties merged to form the CPI (Maoist), he had been handling mostly political affairs of the party. Rajkumar was underground for 30 years and assumed several aliases including Madhav, Gangadhar, Madhu and Uday. He was an ideologue who had specialised in field-craft as well. Azad went underground in 1979. He was arrested in 1975 and 1978 and jumped bail, carrying a reward of Rs. 1.2 million on his head. He was an accused in the killing of Congress legislator C Narsi Reddy along with 10 others in Mahbubnagar district on 15 August 2005. Apart from being the central committee member, he was also the member of the politburo, the highest policy making body of the organisation.
Azad (Telugu: ఆజాద్, English : Independent) is a 2000 Telugu, Patriotic film, produced by C. Ashwini Dutt under Vyjayanthi Movies and directed by Thirupathisamy. Starring Nagarjuna Akkineni, Soundarya, Shilpa Shetty in the lead roles and music composed by Mani Sharma with adapted screenplay by Yandamuri Veerendranath. The film was released on 29 September 2000 to positive reviews and became an instant Hit at the box office. The film completed successful 100 day run in Hyderabad. The film was dubbed into Hindi as Mission Azaad and into Tamil as Gurushethram. Also the film was remade in tamil as Velayudham starring Vijay and was released on 2011.
Anjali (Soundarya) is a journalist who witnesses the murder of a senior journalist carrying crucial evidence about a mafia don. Anjali is on a mission to sue this criminal Deva, who is responsible for the murder. Anjali is also harassed by the misdeeds of Deva (Raghuvaran), the most influential person in the region, who runs Hindu Seva Samithi but, in reality, an undercover Islamic militant, on a mission to release their terrorist group head imprisoned by the state administration. Deva is apparently a Hindu devotee who is bent upon teaching Bhagavad Gita to every human he meets. Anjali happens to see an accident in which a bunch of Deva's henchmen die. She takes this opportunity to create & glorify a fictional character called 'Azad'. She writes a letter that Azad has done this assassination to end crime in the city & state. Word spreads like wildfire that there is a Man called 'Azad' who is the Rescuer of the common man.
Love is like oxygen
You get too much you get too high
Not enough and you're gonna die
Love gets you high
Love is like oxygen
. . .
Time on my side
I got it all
I've heard that pride
Always comes before a fall
There's a rumour goin' round the town
That you don't want me around
I can't shake off my city blues
Every way I turn I lose
Love is like oxygen
. . .
Love is like oxygen
. . .
Time is no healer
If you're not there
Lonely fever
Sad words in the air
Some things are better left unsaid
I'm gonna spend my days in bed
I'll walk the streets at night
To be hidden by the city lights
City lights
Love is like oxygen
. . .
Love is like oxygen