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.

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.