रूपदास

Roopdas was a Hindi film lyricist active through the 1940s, one of the many wordsmiths of the era whose songs survive while their life stories do not. His best-documented work is the fantasy film Paristan (1944), directed by Mahesh Kaul with music by Ninu Mazumdar, where he shares lyric credits with the composer on songs such as "Phool Uthi Band Kali", "Hanso Hanso Aur Khub Hanso", "Ek Akal Ki Baat" and "Bhishan Hatya Kand Kaho". He went on to write for Samaaj Ko Badal Dalo (1947) and contributed to the soundtrack of Parivartan (1949), where his credits appear alongside fellow lyricists B. S. Madhup and Gulshan Jalalabadi. Around thirty film songs are attributed to him in surviving song registers. Beyond these credits, reliable biographical details — dates, birthplace, or later career — have not been documented.