- He worked for several music/film directors whose sons went on to forge a career for themselves: Sachin Dev Burman and Rahul Dev Burman; Kalyanji Veerji Shah and Anandji Veerji Shah and Viju Shah; Roshan and Rajesh Roshan; Nadeem Saifi and Shravan Rathod and Sanjeev Darshan; Manmohan Desai and Ketan Desai; Gulshan Rai and Rajiv Rai; and Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra.
- His original intention was to be a playback singer and not a lyricist. However, he did sing a song with Lata Mangeshkar in Mome Ki Gudiya (1972).
- He was the only lyricist, besides Sahir Ludhianvi who made it a point to attend all the recordings of film songs where his lyrics were featured.
- His ancestors were from Kuri, near Rawalpindi, and had origins in the region of Kashmir.
- Bakshi wrote the lyrics for the debut films of Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Kamal Haasan, Kumar Gaurav, Rajnikant, Rakhee Gulzar, Dimple Kapadia, Amrita Singh, Jaya Prada, Manisha Koirala, Tabu, Mahima Chaudhry, Namrata Shirodkar and Arjun Rampal.
- He worked for several music/film directors whose sons went on to forge a career for themselves: Sachin Dev Burman and Rahul Dev Burman; Kalyanji Veerji Shah and Anandji Veerji Shah and Viju Shah; Roshan and Rajesh Roshan; Nadeem Saifi and Shravan Rathod and Suneel Darshan; Manmohan Desai and Ketan Desai; Gulshan Rai and Rajiv Rai; and Yash Chopra and Aditya Chopra.
- Son named Rajesh Bakshi.
- Wrote the lyrics to over 4000 songs
- Son named Rakesh Anand Bakshi. He worked as a assistant to Subash Ghai.
- Daughter' s names are Suman Bakshi Datt ( Director Aditya Datt's mom) and Kavita Bakshi Bali.
- Grandfather of director Aditya Datt.
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