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Category Archives: Urdu & Hindi Cinema

Urdu has played a critical and consistent role in Indian cinema and Bollywood through the years. Here, we will uncover movies, songs, directors, lyricists, writers who have strengthened this connection, through the last ten decades.

Zaheer Kashmiri

December 23, 2017

Zaheer Kashmiri was also known as Peer Dastgeer Zaheer. He was born on 21 August 1919 in Amritsar, but he originally …

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Gardish

December 9, 2017

Gardish means revolution, circulation This word has been used in many songs and poems. In the film Mera Naam Joker …

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Wazir

June 25, 2016

Wazir means Vizier ( a high-ranking political advisor or minister usually serving a king.) Wazir is the name of a recent crime …

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Anarkali

June 24, 2016

Anarkali means pomegranate blossom Anar means pomegranate kali means blossom Anarkali  born Nadira Begum or Sharf-un-Nissa, was a legendary salve girl. It is …

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Shehzadi

March 11, 2016

Shehzadi means princess This word is used beautifully in the song ” Door Kahin ek aam ki bagiya” written by …

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Libaas

February 21, 2016

Libaas -Attire/clothing Libaas  is a 1998  film written and directed by Gulzar. It is about married couples of urban India having …

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Yalgaar

October 25, 2015

Yalghaar or Yalgaar means assault/attack. Yalgaar is also the name of  a 1992 Hindi  film directed by and starring Feroz Khan alongside Sanjay Dutt, …

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Shakespeare of Urdu- Agha Hashar Kashmiri

October 24, 2015

Agha Hashar Kashmiri (3 April 1879 – 28 April 1935) was an eminent Urdu poet, playwright and dramatist and was called …

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How Bollywood Dialogues Would Sound Without Urdu Words

October 17, 2015

Haal-e-dil a Magazine has translated some famous bollywood dialogues in Hindi to explain what they would sound like without using Urdu …

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Qayem Chandpuri

September 27, 2015

Muhammad Qyamuddin Ali Qayem Chandpuri or Qaim Chandpuri or Kayem Chandpuri (1722-1793), was an Indian poet. He was born at …

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