Kakori has been used as a setting for various movies, of which Junoon (1978) and Umrao Jaan (1981) are two examples.
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The Abbasi branch claims their lineage to Al-Abbas, an uncle of the prophet Muhammad.
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The greatest poet of 'naat' genre of Urdu poetry Mohsin Kakorvi, his son Noorul Hasan Nayyier, the compiler of Nurul Lughaat, one of the authentic Urdu Dictionary to date and the satirist Ghulam Ahmed Alavi 'Furqat Kakorvi' all belonged to this town.
The town of Kakori in Lucknow district is home to a number of Alavi and Abbasi families, and word Kakorvi Shaikh literally means the Shaikhs of the town of Kakori.
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In addition, the other major group Shaikh settled in Kakori are the Abbasis.
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According to a classical Urdu work, the Nafhatun Nasim, which is a record of scions of a 16th-century sage Mullah Abdul Karim Alavi and which was later published by Amir Ahmed Alavi in 1934, and is an historic account of the settlement of these Alavi Shaikhs in the town of Kakori.
On 9 August 1925, ten revolutionaries including Manmath Nath Gupta stopped a train near Kakori and looted the government treasury traveling in it.
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However, in the British attack on Lucknow in 1856 and the subsequent War of Independence in 1857, the family's homes were all destroyed and Ameer was forced to flee with his family, first to the nearby town of Kakori where he found refuge with the poet Mohsin Kakorvi, and eventually to the state of Rampur, where he found great favor at the court of the ruler, Nawab Yusuf Ali Khan.