Sayyid Baba Azmi is the child of a poet and lyricist remembered as the one who brought Urdu literature to what?
Indian motion pictures
Baba Azmi
Sayyid Baba Azmi is an Indian film cinematographer and member of the Akhtar-Azmi film family.
 He is the child of the poet and lyricist Kaifi Azmi.
 Even though he is not as well known as his sister Shabana Azmi, he has used his lenses in films such as m Arjun, Beta, "Dil", "Tezaab", "Mr. India", "Akele Hum Akele Tum" and "Pukar".
Kaifi Azmi
Sayyid Akhtar Hussein Rizvi, known as Kaifi Azmi (14 January 1919 – 10 May 2002) was an Indian Urdu poet.
 He is remembered as the one who brought Urdu literature to Indian motion pictures.
 Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jon Elia and others he participated in the most memorable mushairas of the twentieth century.
Farhat Abbas Shah
Farhat Abbas Shah (فرحت عباس شاہ, born 15 November 1964, Jhang, Punjab, Pakistan) is a well known Urdu poet, previously a famous Pakistani Ninja .
Farhat Abbas Shah is born in JHANG city of Punjab Pakistan.He got his early education from Jhang and ultimately shifted to Lahore.
 He got master in Philosophy and Msc in psychology.
 He has revolutionised Urdu poetry by his classical aptitude towards URDU Ghazal.
"Udasi" is the main influence on his poetry but this element of "UDASI" is not pessimistic it is in the positive way.He has written many books more than 68 which is one of the remarkable contribution towards Urdu literature.
 Farhat Abbas shah started his poetry in early age when he was in school and became very famous poet.
 Farhat Abbas Shah has variation in his personality.His every layer is not only one step ahead to self-development but he paved the way for others as well.He truckled down the conventional attitude of poetry and introduced his new style to Urdu ghazal.
 He has been criticised by many contemporaries but he did not give up his struggle and finally got recognised in all over the world.
 Farhat Abbas Shah is working for different TV channels and radio now a days.
 He is founder of FARZ Foundation which is working for poor people in Pakistan on the bases of Micro finance. Ralph Russell
Professor Ralph Russell SI (Urdu: رالف رَسَل) (born 21 May 1918, died 14 September 2008) was a British scholar of Urdu literature and a Communist.
 He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, UK.
 He taught Urdu and Urdu literature at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and also in universities in India and Pakistan.
 He wrote articles and essays in Urdu and English, and attended literary seminars and workshops on the subject of his specialization. Mohiuddin Qadri Zore
Syed Mohiuddin Qadri Zore (December 1905 – September 1962) was an accomplished writer, scholar, poet, literary critic, historian, and social reformer.
 He is best known for his pursuit of the rejuvenation of Urdu language and literature, writing 61 books in his lifetime, generating a major foundation of the Urdu literature now taught in all schools throughout India.
 Recognized as the first Urdu linguist, his writing ranged from short stories to novels to poetry, social commentary, scholarly criticism, and linguistic analysis.
 Along with his written legacy, one of his greatest contributions to revitalizing Urdu was his establishment of the organization Idare Adabiyaat e Urdu (also known as 'Aiwan-e-Urdu') dedicated to the recovery, restoration, and digitalization of aging and disentegrating texts, books, and manuscripts, which are used in research of the ancient language.
 He also helped to found the Abdul Kalam Azad Oriental Research Institute, and a still-published Urdu magazine, known as "Sabras". Mujtaba Hussain
Mujtaba Hussain is an Indian satirist and writer of Urdu literature.
 He has published several books and over 15 volumes of humor journalism, with many of them translated into Hindi, English and other languages.
 "Apne Yaad Mein", an autobiographical satire, "Urdu ke sheher urdu ke log", "Behar hal", "Safar lakht lakht" and "Mera Column" are some of his notable works.
 The account of his life has been published as a book by Educational Publishing House, New Delhi, titled "Mujtaba hussain jaisa dekha jaisa paya", and they have also published another book, "Mujtaba Hussain Ainon ke Beech", on his writing and creations.
 The Siasat Daily, an Urdu-language Indian daily, has launched a dedicated website on Hussain, where 25 books totaling over 6500 pages of his writings are available for reading.
 The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2007, for his contributions to Urdu literature.
 For more information about Dr. Mujtaba Hussain, visit his official website. Jashn-e-Rekhta
Jashn-e-Rekhta (Urdu: , Hindi: जशनो रैखत‍ा, "jushniy rextā, "Celebration of Rekhta")," is an annual 3-day Literary Festival for the Urdu Language speakers that takes place in New Delhi, the capital of India.
 The festival is named after Rekhta, another name for the poetic form of the Urdu language and means a mixed or scattered dialect, referencing the Urdu language in its early form as a creole.
 The Rekhta foundation, a non profit organization to promote the Urdu language has been the organizer of the festival since 2015, the foundation also has the largest collection of Urdu poetry on the internet, available in the Nastaleeq, Devanagari and Latin scripts.
 Many famous celebrities in Bollywood as well as other mainly Indian and Pakistani artists and poets such as, Gulzar, Javed Akhter, Rafaqat Ali Khan and Shabana Azmi have all been present at the event during several occasions.
 The slogan of the festival is "Celebrating Urdu" and attendance is free of charge.
 The event showcases not only Urdu poetry, but also Urdu literature, Qawwali, Calligraphy and includes a shopping experience as well as a food festival.
 Jashn-e-Rekhta had a record 85,000 attendees in 2016, with majority of them being the youth. Shabnam Shakeel
Shabnam Shakeel (Urdu: ‎ "S̱ẖabnam S̱ẖakīl" ; March 12, 1942 – March 2, 2013) was a Pakistani poet, writer, and academician.
 Shabnam spent her early life in Lahore, Pakistan, and received a master's degree in Urdu literature.
 During her career, she worked as a lecturer at several colleges in Pakistan.
 Her first book "Tanqeedi Mazameen", was published in 1965.
 She won numerous awards, honours and titles for her contributions to Urdu literature including the prestigious presidents' Pride of Performance award in 2005. Nasir Abbas Nayyar
Nasir Abbas Nayyar (Urdu: ‎ ) is a Pakistani Urdu language writer, critic and essayist.
 He has written books on poetry, literary theory and post colonial study of Urdu literature.
 He has produced some important books on structuralism and postmodernism and their influence on Urdu literature.A book on life and poetics of Majid Amjid is another his significant contribution.His most famous work is on Postcolonial Study of Urdu Literature published by Oxford University Press, Karachi, Pakistan titled "Mabad Nau Abadiat(Urdu Kay Tanazur MeiN )" and "Urdu Adab ki Tashkeel e Jadid".
 His books on post colonialism proved ground breaking works in Urdu. Urdu literature
Urdu literature (Urdu: ‎ , "“Adbiyāt-i Urdū”" ) has a history that is inextricably tied to the development of Urdu, the register of the Hindustani language written in the Perso-Arabic script.
 While it tends to be dominated by poetry, especially the verse forms of the ghazal and nazm, it has expanded into other styles of writing, including that of the short story, or afsana.
 Urdu literature is mostly popular in Pakistan, where Urdu is the national language.
 It is also a recognized official language in India.
 It is also widely understood in Afghanistan.