Urdu Quotes

On Umrao Jaan (2006) being her first Urdu language film: "Since our generation speaks English, we are not very fluent in Hindi, leave alone Urdu. I loved those dialogs and the experience to work and know about that era. For me, it was a study of Urdu on the sets under the guidance of JP and Javed saab."

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.

Urdu can not 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.

I speak Urdu quite a lot, too, and I read a lot of Persian.