Bollywood songs can’t be called ‘shayri’: Urdu scholar

By Indian newspaper Sydney on January 11, 2014   Bollywood  

Shamsur Rahman Faruqi, one of India’s leading Urdu scholars and poet, says the lyrics of Bollywood films can in no way be called shayri or Urdu poetry even if they do incorporate Urdu words. “In some old films there were bits of shayri, but the new ones are in no way shayris…,” he said. “The […]