Ismail Merchant’s promotion of Urdu

So many people have promoted the Urdu language. Most of the people know that Ismail merchant was a Hollywood producer. He was a Hollywood filmmaker but this is not his only credit. He was an ardent promoter of the Urdu language.

Being in the film industry and living in India, he knew all the ins and outs of the both languages called the Urdu and the Hindi. He never saw a point in the separation of the two languages. He never saw a point in the ever-present fight between the promoters of the Urdu and the Hindi.

“A few words of Hindi appear here or there, but it's all Urdu. I feel that if the popular culture, which is what Hindi films are, uses Urdu, it's not going to diminish”. Ismail Merchant

In fact, Ismail merchant never saw a different between the Urdu and the Hindi. He proudly used to call the language Urdu and never called it Hindi. Actually, Ismail’s father was a leader of the All India Muslim League but he refused to leave India for coming to Pakistan. Therefore, Ismail in fact learned from his father that standing up for the principles is hard but it is the right thing to do.

Ismail always supported the fact that Urdu can never die because it is a language of many groups of people. “Urdu cannot die out because it has very strong roots in Persia. The language itself is not only just the language of the Muslims, but it's also the language of the Hindus”. Ismail Merchant