Quality of Urdu language in the Bollywood Movies

Urdu is not only the language of Muslims but it is also speaking Hindus at high level. Urdu has very strong roots in Persia and cannot die out because of their importance. Maximum number of people speaks Urdu in Pakistan and India. Technically, the Urdu and Hindi is the same language. So, in Indian films the language that is mostly spoken is Urdu.

Because the usage of swear words and wrong pronunciations the Urdu language in the Indian films is falling in its quality. The linguists are trying to improve the quality of Urdu language in the bollywood films because they are frequently worrying about the falling trend of the language. For this purpose the linguists should follows the following rules.

1) First hire the competent Urdu linguists because script can’t be improved without expert scriptwriters. Directors and producers hire the people for films who do not know Urdu language as much.

2) The people have strong relationship with the Sanskrit language because today; Urdu will be replete with Sanskrit words instead of Persian.

3) The filmmakers put necessary dialects of the Urdu language and not fake dialects only for the publicity of the Movies.

4) Some actors not know the correct usage of Urdu language. So, the filmmaker should be trained for grammar, pronunciation, usage and style before casted the actors in the films. 

5) It is also the quality that the scriptwriters hire the good Urdu lyricists in the songs for the promotion of the films.

Dr Wazir Agha_The Famous Poet of Urdu

Urdu is one of the most widely spoken language of the world .Without poets language is incomplete and our famous poet Dr Wazir Ahmed passed away last year September 7,2010 ;laid to rest in native village near Sargodha. Wazir Agha was the famous Pakistani writer and lived in Sargodha.

Dr. Agha wrote more than 60 books including different topics like criticism, literary trend, humor, poetry and other genres. At the time of death he was 88 and always will remember in his role in Urdu inshaiya. He is also well known in Ghazal and Nazm.

In Delhi when memorial group of Action organized the famous poets gave esteem to Dr. Wazir Agha. His famous ghazals are Aadhi sadi ke Baad, Ek katha Anokhi etc.

                                   Kehne ko chand gham thay ye arsa-e-hayat
                                      lekin tamam umr hi chalna para mujhe

In Government College Dr Agha was the editor of college magazine‘Chanab’. He was wrote essays on those topics who was uncommon in the Urdu literature, such as psychology and economics. So, his name and his contribution in the literary history of Urdu cannot be erased.

Dimensions of Urdu Poetry

Urdu is the centuries old language and the British soldiers took special interest in developing it. Urdu is commonly referred as “Rekhta” which is the combination of three languages i.e. Arabic, Persian and Turkish. It is widely spoken language of Pakistan and more than 600 million people speak Urdu in South Asia. Through different experiencing Urdu language and poetry is so rich in its ideas, culture, accent and expression.

With the help of sweet love stories the language and its literature can survive. Without love, romance and vision, life will become too bore. Many individuals highlighted different social issues through their sensitive poetry. These include Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Allama Iqbal, Habib jalib and many others in the field of poetry. These poets used their poetry to criticize dictatorship like Injustice and the fall of Dhaka.

Allama Iqbal and along with many others played a vital role in the fight of freedom. Although Iqbal was the national poet of Pakistan and he made the Muslims to realize the lost glory in their land.

Many poets used Poetry to express the martyrdom of Hazrat Imam Hussain (R.A), his followers and his family. One of the famous poet in Urdu named as Mir Anees, was the best Marsia writers. Marsia is the specified form of Urdu poetry. Many poets tried to emphasize the aspects of incorporate religion into life through their touching poetry.

Today Urdu poetry is standing on strong foundations and if the poets are brilliant as yesterday, nothing can stop Urdu from flourishing.

Ways to encourage masses to read Urdu literature

The literature of any language plays a great role in the expansion of the horizon of the human mind. In the particular era, we recognized that outside almost the many nations, the Pakistanis neglect at the back. Together with other things, if we will see the literature that belongs to the language, Urdu ‘hopes that their marbles might be opened and open-minded. 

However, how to make easy the masses ready see the Urdu literature. A number of steps really should automatically get to develop the practice of reading Urdu literature one of the nations.

1. Increasing the literacy rate

The biggest issues of Pakistan are usually that its more than 60% population is illiterate. The government keeps on lying in this regard to the literacy rate. The total numbers of people who will actually read Urdu is extremely low. Improving the literacy rate of Pakistan should be the biggest preference of the government. However, the Pakistanis have always been unfortunate when it comes to the government and its policies.

2. Conducting reading workshops
The publishing houses should conduct reading workshops to support reading one of the individuals. Establishing totally free reading rooms while in the bookshops is a sensible assessment. Besides that, the libraries really should even be established.

3. Creating the Urdu newspapers extensive
In many countries, the masses are educated to see the newspapers. We need to attach to the revelation of Bangladesh in this connection. While in the streets of Bangladesh, people attach the full newspaper to the walls daily, in order that the person walking may read it free of cost.

4. Introducing originality for the Urdu literature

Some individuals, mostly the urban population are afraid to see the Urdu literature due to the fact that it should always be lifted through the English literature. As a result, their point is that why they shouldn’t observe the original version. 

5. Eliminating plagiarism From the Urdu literature

The plagiarism is uncontrolled in the Urdu language. This is a huge reason, so the good writers in Pakistan are discouraged to write. If the plagiarism is eliminated the writers will endlessly with self-confidence.

Growth of Urdu Poetry

Though text seems to be the natural form of communication, if we think a little deeply, we come to the conclusion that man first feels and then only thinks, therefore poetry, which comes from the heart is actually a more natural form of expression, while prose is better suited to the expression of flow of thoughts of cerebral nature and to formal writing.

Literature in all the languages of the world finds its origin in poetry. Poetry is a life force, which finds its roots in literature long before text; rhyming is a natural habit of people, and even children learn things in rhyme much more easily then in prose.

 Before the arrival of writing, in the oral tradition, it was only the powerful magic of the poetry that could be retained in human mind, and the power of memory was also familiar to poetry better than text, poetry was also more suited to public speech and recitation.

 The spirit of Urdu, before its origin was so rich in its thought, creative and emotional content that when the time came for it to emerge as a language, it just burst forth like Minerva, from the hair of the Jupiter of Urdu poetry and philosophy in poetic and not in prose form. So Urdu started as a language in poetic rather than text form.

Urdu and Hindi

The term Urdu came into use when Shah Jahan built the Red Fort in Delhi. The word Urdu itself comes from a Turkish word ''ordu'' or "army", from which English also gets the word "horde". Urdu is sometimes called "Lashkarizuban" or the language of the army. 

Because of their similarities of grammar and core vocabularies, many linguists do not distinguish between Hindi and Urdu as separate languages at least not in reference to the informal spoken registers. Ordinary informal Urdu and Hindi can be seen as the same language (Hindustani) with the difference being that Urdu is supplemented with a per so-Arabic vocabulary and Hindi a Sanskrit vocabulary. Additionally, there is the convention of Urdu being written in Perso-Arabic script, and Hindi in Devanagari.

 The most important difference at this level is in the script: if written in the Perso-Arabic script, the language is generally considered to be Urdu, and if written in Devanagari it is generally considered to be Hindi.

 The two standardized registers of Hindustani, Hindi and Urdu have become as separate languages that often nationalists, both Muslim and Hindu, claim that Hindi and Urdu have always been separate languages. It is said that Indian Bollywood films are made in "Hindi" but the language used in most of them is almost the same as that of Urdu speakers. The dialogue is frequently developed in English and later translated to an intentionally Hindustani which can be easily understood by speakers of most North Indian languages, both in India and in Pakistan.

Facts about the Urdu Language

Urdu language is full of beauty and grace seems to have been custom-built for literature, prose and poetry. Urdu is the national language of Pakistan and also widely spoken in India. Urdu by itself is the twentieth most popular language in the world.

Urdu is widely spoken today in sizeable countries including Nepal, Saudi Arabia, UAE, US, Germany, France, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Denmark, Eastern Europe, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand, Tanzania, Zambia etc.

 Urdu is a very expressive language. In poetry and songs, it can convey emotions using simple and gentle words while its literature can also be used for exact and rational reasoning. It has absorbed both the native and non-native elements of writing in Arabic and Persian. Besides, it derives its words from Sanskrit.

Urdu is very similar to Hindi while speaking but both are totally different in writing form. It is written in the per sio-Arabic script, while Hindi follows the Sanskrit (Devnagri script) characters. It is a very flexible language and has adopted words from English, Hindi, Sanskrit, Punjabi, Persian, Arabic, Turkish and others.

Urdu Language

Urdu historically spelled “Ordu” is an Indo-Aryan language of the Indo-Iranian branch, belonging to Indo-European family of languages. It developed under Persian, Arabic and Turkic influence in South Asia during the Delhi Sultanate and Mughal Empire. Standard Urdu has approximately the twentieth largest population of native speakers, among all languages. It is the national language of Pakistan. There are 60,503,579 people speaking Urdu language on World total basis.

 Urdu is often contrasted with Hindi, another standardized form of Hindustani. The main difference between the Hindi and Urdu is that Standard Urdu is written in Nastaliq calligraphy style of the Per so-Arabic script and some words are taken from Persian and Arabic, while Standard Hindi is written in Devanagari and has inherited significant vocabulary from Sanskrit. 

Linguists therefore consider Urdu and Hindi to be two standardized forms of the same language. Because of Urdu is slightly similar to Hindi, speakers of the two languages can usually understand one another, if both sides refrain from using specialized vocabulary. Indeed, linguists sometimes count them as being part of the same Genetic language. Urdu and Hindi are socio-politically different, and people who self-describe as being speakers of Hindi would question their being counted as native speakers of Urdu and vice-versa.

Introduction of Urdu Language

Urdu is the national language of Pakistan, was created around the 1600’s in Central Asia. The word Urdu comes from the Turkish word ‘ordu’ means ‘camp’ or ‘army’. It was entirely used as a unifying communication tool between the Muslims soldiers during their conquest of Ancient India and Eastern Persia. These soldiers were of Persian, Arab, or Turkish descent. The majority of these soldiers are of Persian origin

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They directly affected the language to be used between them. It is the language of the government dominated earlier on was Farsi, but eventually changed to Urdu to accommodate the other races. It is the fact that; Urdu vocabulary contains approximately 60%Farsi and the rest being a mixture of Arab and Turkish languages.

The grammar takes some elements from the Farsi and Arabic languages but also has elements that are unique and different from all three of its mother tongues. In current time, many Urdu speakers have adopted many English and Hindi terms following the effects of globalization and success of Indian film industry, in Pakistan.

The linguistic status of Urdu and Hindi has been the subject of fierce debate. Some argue treated as the same language; others that they should be treated separately on the grounds of differences in vocabulary and word order.