Rahat Indori

Rahat Indori
Born	Rahat Qureshi (1950-01-01)1 January 1950 Indore, Madhya Bharat, Dominion of India (in present-day Madhya Pradesh, India)
Died	11 August 2020(2020-08-11) (aged 70) Indore, Madhya Pradesh, India
Occupation	Lyricist poet
Education	MA, PhD in Urdu literature
Alma mater	Islamia Karimia College, Indore Barkatullah University, Bhopal
Genre	Ghazal, Nazm, Geet
Spouse	Seema Rahat Anjum Rehbar ​ ​ (m. 1988; div. 1993)​
Children	4

Rahat Indori, born Rahat Qureshi (1 January 1950 – 11 August 2020) was an Indian Bollywood lyricist and Urdu poet. He was also a former professor of Urdu language and a painter. He was a language professor at Devi Ahilya University, Indore. As a movie score composer, his best known works were Khuddar, Mission Kashmir and Meenaxi: A Tale of Three Cities. Indori was born in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

Indori died on 11 August 2020 at a hospital in Indore from COVID-19, aged 70. He was tested positive for the infection the night before.