Rahat Indori

Biography

Rahat Indori (born 1 January 1950) is one of the most acclaimed celebrity Urdu poet and a bollywood lyricist. Prior to this he was a pedagogist of Urdu literature at Indore University. Rahat Indori is very well known and loved amongst his millions of fans worldwide for his poetic brilliance and a very peculiar style of rendering ash'aars.

Early life and education
Dr. Rahat Indori was born on 1 January 1950 in Indore to Rafatullah Qureshi, a cloth mill worker, and his wife Maqbool Un Nisa Begum. He was their fourth child. He did his schooling from Nutan School Indore from where he completed his Higher Secondary. He completed his graduation from Islamia Karimia College (ikdc) Indore in 1973 and has passed his MA in Urdu literature from Barkatullah University Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) in 1975. Equally competent in prose and poetry, Rahat was awarded a PhD in Urdu literature from the Bhoj University of Madhya Pradesh in 1985 for his thesis titled Urdu Main Mushaira.

Career
Rahat took up a teacher’s job in Urdu literature at IK College, Indore and got engrossed in mushairas and began to get invitations from everywhere in India and abroad. He was a good student and also the captain of the football and hockey teams at school and college levels. He recited his first sher in his college days when he was only 19. 

He is the recipient of a number of national and international awards for Urdu sher-o-shayari. He is also a popular lyrics writer in the Hindi film industry.