Watched an interview of Usman Peerzada last week, where he told that his late brother Salman Peerzada was doing a theatre drama based on Urdu’s first drama ‘Raaz o Niyaz’. The drama had only two characters ‘wife and husband’. While they chose Talat Hussain to play the husband, Khalida Riyasat was chosen to play wife just because of her Urdu diction (being Ihl e Zaban), as the script was written in proper Urdu.
This was about 1970s… When Newscasters were taught how to pronounce properly…
Watch today’s TV channels and you will find variety of pronunciation mistakes besides using English / other language words (when there are alternate Urdu words available).
How do you see this trend? Is Urdu dying because there is no wali waris or ihl e zaban among us?
Share the instances for wrong pronunciation from media, as well.
i remember, some ptv news casters used to say wrong words;
Nazm-o-nasaq instead of nazm-o-nasq
mohkima instead of mahakma
There were people like ubaidullah baig, quraish pur, zia mohiyuddin, hasan shaheed mirza etc but now nobody cares of pronunciation because of wanna be culture. People have no problem if someone fails to say Urdu words properly but if same case happens for English then it becomes a national issue.
i remember, some ptv news casters used to say wrong words;
Nazm-o-nasaq instead of nazm-o-nasq
mohkima instead of mahakma
There were people like ubaidullah baig, quraish pur, zia mohiyuddin, hasan shaheed mirza etc but now nobody cares of pronunciation because of wanna be culture. People have no problem if someone fails to say Urdu words properly but if same case happens for English then it becomes a national issue.
First play with renowned director, rehearsals with Talat Hussain.. established her and she never looked back.
On the face of it, Khalida looked quite Mod and I didn’t know that she was chosen for her first role because of command over language. In old days, Radio and theater were used as language institutes. Ab to Allah hi hafiz hai. This is not just with the Urdu channels… Other channels (like Sindhi channels) are also doing satya naas of their languages
How do we know when and how to use wastay ? only those can understand who have command over language.
mujhy to dard-e-dil k liye paida kiya insaan ko bhe theek lg raha hy
(I was reading ur thread)
My mum entered my room n said: " its 11 get up or i will throw cold water on you"
I replied: "Mere sath aap urdu mein guftagu kijiye or raha sawal neend ka to meri tabiyat kuch nasaaz thi isliye aaj uthne mein takheer hogayi"
N she was like :o yeh urdu bolne ka bhoot phir sawar hogaya
Even zia mohiuddin’s wife don’t speak proper urdu.When they don’t care why would anybody else? All these actors who acted in dramas in 70’s ,80’s and are working now like badar khalil,qazi wajid,shakeel can teach and guide youngsters but they don’t because they don’t have enough time for rehearsels.
, the statement is for a general trend.
