Ali Mir - Romance and Revolution in Bollywood Songs - Part 4

Ali Husain Mir is a Bollywood lyricist and script writer and a professor of Management at William Paterson University. Mir visited the Hindi Urdu Flagship at the University of Texas at Austin to speak to Flagship students about his career in Bollywood production and the changing role of Urdu in Indian cinema.

Mir is the author of Anthems of Resistance, the definitive book on the All India Progressive Writers' Movement; he is also an acclaimed lyricist and script-writer for Hindi and Urdu films (Iqbal, Dor). Mir's oeuvre engages issues of religious minorities and secularism in South Asia.

For more videos and information on the many Hindi-Urdu writers, artists, and scholars that regularly visit the Hindi Urdu Flagship visit http://hindiurduflagship.org

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• urdu
• hindi
• hindi urdu flagship
• bollywood
• indian cinema
• poetry
• literature
• the language flagship
• austin
• texas
• india
• pakistan
• south asian studies