In the sixties, renowned critic Saleem Ahmed wrote two very important articles on
modern Urdu poetry and called the modern creative trends of Urdu poetry unpopular
and half-expressed poetry. Urdu critics did not pay any special attention to this
argument of Saleem Ahmed. There has come no change in the popularity of Azaad
Nazm. Azaad Nazm has become more popular than ever and the most effective
platform in presenting today's creative issues.Saleem Ahmed borrowed the concept of
the imperfect man from Freud and tried to examine Urdu modern poetry in the context
of the ideological debate of Hasan Askari's "Riwayat" in the field of unpopular
poetry. It was Ludicrous that he himself too was a poet with significant stylistic and
thematic deviations in Urdu Nazm and ghazal, but he continued to call modern Poem
deviating from tradition. In this article, Saleem Ahmed's point of view has been
discussed. This is probably the first critical article in which an attempt has been made
to give a reasoned answer to Saleem Ahmed's objections and his position has not been
agreed upon. Azaad nazm is still the most important genre in presenting the complex
situation of the Today's man.