Manharji was learning Urdu from a very, very renowned Urdu teacher.
And those Urdu-speaking people are still living in those camps.
It's in Urdu. But what does a person talk about when he's singing blues?
barely speak Urdu, which is my first language.
So what happened is these people were Urdu-speaking people, moved to East Pakistan, and it was Pakistan and it was good.
I've started something called as Urdu blues.
Same thing we do in Urdu.
And another British-- It was an Urdu song.
And For a to sing Urdu was like, wow, why is he doing that?
It just means sex in Urdu.
She spoke better English than Urdu, in fact.
Lafunga for those of you who speak Urdu means loafer.
And they said-- I want to speak Urdu, but I know this is going to be on YouTube.
If I run into someone who I think may speak Urdu, I'll racially profile them.
So one thing you said that when you approached Urdu teacher, and you said yourself, ..
Hindi, a little Urdu too. I like
Subhi writes her own songs and sings in both languages-- Hindi and Urdu.
So for that, he was learning Urdu.
During the Liberation War of Bangladesh, the Urdu-speaking community, which was about 170,000 people at that time, sided with the Pakistani army,
And a lot of people, especially the Urdu-speaking community, they basically want their rights.
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And so in tabla tradition, we say tabla So Urdu or Hindi, means to speak.
So he was like, are you sure of you want to learn Urdu?
And with him, I read a whole lot of Urdu poets, starting from what we call Ustad poets,
He was kind of a guide, kind of someone who guided me regularly as far as Urdu poetry is concerned.
So we were sitting one day, and we were discussing as to how the Urdu poetry, the content
But in terms of for the audiences, people had limited access to that Urdu,
Because, as you know, that in Urdu, when you do it talk about a couplet, it has about 20 different layers
And the first surprise is that the cook, who spoke only Urdu, did not speak a word of English,
And then, obviously, came the issue of language, because ghazal, as you know, basically-- the medium, the language is Urdu.
And one fine day, with a lot of hesitation, I gathered courage to ask him if he could teach me Urdu.
What you brought to the ghazal industry was an ability to others to enjoy, not just somebody who understands Urdu at that level.
So I used to go to ,, the school, and learn Urdu from a Maulvi--
Arabic, Bengali, Hindi, Urdu, Russian, French.
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Nothing. So, if I said, "Please all of you now take a moment to sign your name in Urdu." There might be one person who can, OK?