The word has become an inseparable part of the names of the virtuosos of Indian classical music. Nowadays, a master of an art or a skill is referred to as Ustaad, too. Originally, the word was used only for those who understood religious texts, but later became an appellation for everyone who taught and tutored. Gradually, the word first became ‘Awista-wid’, and then morphed into ‘Ustaad’. The word ‘wed’ is still used for ‘Hakim (wise)’, or ‘Daanaa (learned)’. The person who understood Awista was known as ‘Awista-wed’. Its journey began with the religious Zoroastrian book Awista, which was in the ancient Iranian language and had very few people who understood it. The word ‘Ustaad’ entered the Urdu language from Persian. On one occasion, he was awarded the third prize, he returned it by saying that there was a mistake in the decision and the award shall be handed over to someone who needs it more. The film 'Qaanun', which had no songs, became extremely successful by the force of his dialogues.Īlso, he was a great speaker in his student days and always took the first prize in debates.

In order to change one of the dialogues, Dilip Kumar was about to strikethrough Akhtar-ul-Iman’s dialogue and pen something of his own, Akhtar-ul-Iman sternly forbade him not to cut his writing and asked him express his objection verbally, for if there ought to be a change, he would make it with his own pen.Īkhtar-ul-Iman never wrote songs for films but some of the dialogues he wrote became so popular that audiences knew them by heart. Once he was writing dialogues for a film whose hero was Dilip Kumar.

He was a thorough taskmaster when it came to writing. Akhtar-ul-Iman was a prominent poet of Urdu Nazm and a very famous and successful film scriptwriter and dialogue writer.

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