This documentary is a close, intimate look at the tradition of comic-satire performance poetry in Dakhani (Urdu of the Deccan) known as Mizahiya Shayri. These poets of the Deccan are amongst the few who keep the long literary traditions of the language alive, albeit in a lighter vein. I examine the history of the tradition, the styles, content of the pioneers, and also of contemporary poets and how the practice of public performance poetry at?mushairas?is linked with not just the decline of Muslim social culture in the Deccan, but also the fall of the Hyderabad state and the general decline of Urdu.
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