Dr. Rahat Indori was born on 1 January 1950 in Indore to Rafatullah Qureshi, a cloth mill worker, and his wife Maqbool Un Nisa Begum. Dr. Rahat Indori died on 11 August 2020. He was their fourth child. He did his schooling from Nutan School Indore from where he completed his Higher Secondary. He completed his graduation from Islamia Karimia College (ikdc) Indore in 1973 and has passed his MA in Urdu literature from Barkatullah UniversityBhopal (Madhya Pradesh) in 1975. Equally competent in prose and poetry, Rahat was awarded a PhD in Urdu literature from the Bhoj University of Madhya Pradesh in 1985 for his thesis titled Urdu Main Mushaira.

Dr. Rahat Indori was one of the most acclaimed celebrity, Urdu poet and a bollywood lyricist. Prior to this he was a pedagogist of Urdu literature at Indore University. Rahat Indori was very well known and loved amongst his millions of fans worldwide for his poetic brilliance and a very peculiar style of rendering mushaira.