Rahat Indori

Rahat Indori is the kind of figure I find quietly heroic. A Bollywood lyricist and Urdu poet who was also a former professor of Urdu literature and a painter, he built a life entirely around the power of words. What strikes me most is that he bridged popular cinema and serious literary tradition, never treating one as beneath the other. I imagine his mushaira recitals electrified rooms, because poetry that lives on the stage demands a performer's heart as much as a scholar's mind. His passing in 2020 was a real loss, but the respect his name still commands tells you everything.

Name (English)

Rahat Indori

Name (Japanese)

ラハト・インドリ

Reading

らはと・いんどり

Born

January 1, 1950 – August 11, 2020

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Tiger

Origin

Indore, Indore district, India

Occupation

lyricist / songwriter / poet / writer

University

Barkatullah University

• Official sitehttps://rahatindori.com
• Xhttps://x.com/rahatindori
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rahat%20Indori
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7283319

Tags

• Indore district
• lyricist
• songwriter
• poet

Last updated

2026-06-21

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.