Bollywood’s well -known filmmaker, poet and lyricist Gulzar has turned 91. Punjab, now Born on 18 August 1934 in Kalra Arora Sikh family in Dina, a small town in Jhelum district of Pakistan, Sampoorn Singh Kalra Gulzar was fond of Shero-Shayari and musical music since school days. During college days, his hobby started climbing and he often used to visit the programs of famous sitar player Ravi Shankar and Sarod player Ali Akbar Khan.
After the partition of India, Gulzar’s family settled in Amritsar but Gulzar turned to Mumbai to fulfill his dreams and started working as a car Macanic in a garage in Worli. There was a bookstore near the garage, who used to give two books to read the fare of eight. Gulzar looked like reading there.
One day filmmaker Vimal Roy’s car broke down. Incidentally, Vimal Roy reached the same garage where Gulzar used to work. Vimal Roy saw Gulzar on the garage and his books. Asked who reads all this? Gulzar said, I! Vimal Roy called Gulzar his address and called to meet the next day. When Gulzar went to Vimal Roy’s office, he said that never go to the garage now. After this he became an assistant to Vimal Rai.
Gulzar as a lyricist wrote the first song ‘Mera Gora Ang Lei Le’ released in 1963 for Vimal Rai’s film ‘Bandini’. Gulzar was followed by a poet as a poet. Gulzar also entered the field of direction through the film ‘Mere Apne’ released in 1971. After the success of this film, Gulzar also directed many films like effort, introduction, sudden, thunderstorm, weather, edge, book, Namkeen, Grape, Pai, But, but, Machis and Hu Tu Tu.
In the early days, Gulzar’s inclination was towards the leftist ideology, which appears in his early films like my own and thunderstorms. The Indian political system was indirectly criticized in the storm. However, the film was also banned for some time.
Gulzar is also proven in the art of molding literary stories and ideas in films. His film Angoor Shakespeare’s story was based on Comedy of Aerrs, Judas Tree of the film Weather AJ Cronins and the film Introduction Hollywood’s Clausic film The Sound of Music. Gulzar’s talent as a lyricist under the music direction of Rahul Dev Burman and he was a traveler to the audience and audience. There is no Shikwa from Tere Bina Zindagi, there is no film Anthi, some of my belongings, the film is allowed, you are not angry with literary style like life, Masoom.
Gulzar played an important role in enhancing the acting of Sanjeev Kumar, Jeetendra and Jaya Bhaduri. Apart from direction, Gulzar also wrote the script and dialogues of many films. Apart from this, Gulzar also produced books and Kinara films in the year 1977. Gulzar has been awarded the Filmfare Award 11 times for his songs.
Gulzar has also been awarded the National Award thrice. A glorious new chapter in Gulzar’s bright career was added when his song ‘Jai Ho’ was awarded the Oscar Award in the film Slumdog Millionaire in 2009. In view of Gulzar’s contribution to Indian cinema, in 2004, he was decorated with Padmabhushan, the third major civilian honor of the country.
Gulzar’s short story collection smoke in Urdu language has also received the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2002. Gulzar has developed a new style of poetry, called Triveni. Gulzar has also been awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest honor of the film industry, in view of the remarkable contribution in the Indian cinema world.
