Bashir Badr

Bashir Badr (born Syed Muhammad Bashir on 15 February 1935) is an Indian poet of Urdu.

Badr was born in Faizabad, India. He is an alumnus of Aligarh Muslim University. He is married and has three sons Nusrat Badr, Masum Badr, Taiyeb Badr and a daughter Saba Badr.He lived in Aligarh university area during student time and teaching time. He also lived in Meerut, U.P When his house was burnt in riots. He lived in Delhi for some time and then permanently relocated to Bhopal. He is currently suffering from dementia and doesn't seem to remember his Mushaira years.

Badr has written many Urdu ghazals. Hehas also worked as a chairman of the Urdu Academy, most of them are written included in this website. http://www.bashirbadr.com/

The syllabus of M.A.(Urdu) in Aligargh Muslim University included quite a few of his poems while he was studying in the University.

Badr has received the Padma Shri award in 1999 for contribution towards literature and Sangeet Natak Akademi. He has also received the Sahitya Akademi Award in Urdu for his poetry collection "Aas" in 1999.

Badr is one of the most quoted shayar in Indian pop-culture.

A popular radio show Ujaale Apni Yaadon Ke on Vividh Bharti derives its title from one of Badr's most popular sher.

ujāle apnī yādoñ ke hamāre saath rahne do na jaane kis galī meñ zindagī kī shaam ho jaa.e

The 2015 film Masaan contains various examples of poetry and shaayari by Basheer Badr, along with works by Akbar Allahabadi, Chakbast, Mirza Ghalib and Dushyant Kumar. Explaining this as a conscious tribute, the film's lyrics writer Varun Grover explained that he wanted to showthe character of Shaalu (played by Shweta Tripathi) as a person whose hobby is to read Hindi poetry and shaayari, as this is a common hobbyof millennial and generation x youngsters in Northern India, especially when in love, but this aspect is rarely shown in Hindi films.

One of Badr's poems was quoted by Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge in Lok Sabha to criticise the government on 8 Feb 2018. A day later, the Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi quoted him again to counter the opposition.