Akhtar Ul Iman

Akhtar ul Iman was born on 12 November 1915 and was a famous Urdu poet and screenwriter in Hindi cinema, who made a significant contribution to modern Urdu nazm. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu in 1962, for his collection of poems, Yadein (Memories), by Sahitya Akademi. He was born on November 12th, 1915, in Qila Patthargarh, Najibabad, Bijnor district in Uttar Pradesh. He was raised in an orphanage. He received his first education in Bijnor, where he met the poet and scholar Khurshid ul Islam, who taught at Aligarh Muslim University and had a long-standing relationship with Ralph Russell. He graduated from Zakir Husain College at the University of Delhi and completed his Master's degree in Urdu at Aligarh Muslim University.

He first joined All India Radio as a staff artist. Iman then joined Film Studio as a dialogue writer in 1945. He prefers nazm to the most famous ghazal as a way of reciting poems. Akhtar ul Iman's language is "coarse and poetic". he uses “coarse” words and phrases to make his message more effective and realistic. He left behind a great legacy for a new generation of poets to follow that explores new styles and themes in modern Urdu poems that provide new guidance in modern and contemporary Urdu nazm with an emphasis on philosophical personality. Iss Aabad Kharabe Mein (Urdu) - published by Urdu Academy, Delhi, India. Autobiography by a famous Indian Urdu writer. He has published some poems Tareek Sayyara in 1943, Gadyab in 1946, Aabjoo in 1959, Yaden in 1961, Bint-e-Lamhaat in 1969, Naya Ahang in 1977, Sar-o-Samaan in 1983.

He worked in the Department of Equipment and at All India Radio in Delhi. Starting in 1945 after moving to Mumbai (then Bombay), he began working on a Hindi movie as a scriptwriter. His poems speak of man and inventing new things. He is different from other poets of his time in his themes, style, and language. He was greatly influenced by Meraji and N M Rashid and is very close and similar to other poets of his time. He was Meeraji's best friend and Meraji stayed with him until his death. They formed the Halqa-e-Arbab-e-Adab (Association of Poetry Friends). The poets in this circle wrote without the ideas and values set by the Progressive Writers' Movement, though they were few but had a great impact and had a profound effect on later generations of poets. And that was the beginning of Modernism in Urdu.