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Born
in Deena(Now in Pakistan) on 18th August, 1934. After partition he came
to Delhi. Gulzar - aka Sampooran Singh began his film career as an assistant
to Bimal Roy. He also worked with Hrishikesh Mukherjee in the beginning
of his career. He started writing songs for films with Bimal da's Bandini.
Mora Gora Ang Layee Le is supposed to be his first song. Although His first
film to be released was Kabuli Wala, which also had some all time
greats like Ganga aaye kahan se. Bandini and Kabuliwala were
followed by Sannata, Biwi aur Makan, Do Dooni Chaar
and most notable of all Khamoshi and various others during 60's.
After getting recognition as a sensitive lyricist, he started writing scripts and stories for films. Then with Mere Apne in 1971, He turned Director. Since then he has given us lots of beautiful, serious and funny moments through his movies. He has written stories for around 60 films and directed 17 movies, each one a masterpiece.
During 1987-1996 he went away from the seen as he did only 7 films as lyricist and 2 as director in the span of 10 years. During this period he did one of the most outstanding jobs for the small screen, the serial called Mirza Ghalib, a tribute to the legendary poet. Mirza Ghalib will remain one of the most memorable TV productions for its music, direction, dialouges and portrayel of MG by Naseeruddin Shah. 1996 saw Gulzar back in action, behind the camera for the making of Maachis, a candor document on terrorism in Punjab. The success of Maachis, got Gulzar back to the film industry. After Maachis, he teamed up with new breed of music directors like AR Rahman, Anu Malik, Jatin Lalit, Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. The magic of Dil Se's music won him yet another Filmfare award. His recent venture HU TU TU received critical acclaim. His next directional venture would be a Bangla film. Gulzar is back with his pen, in 2006 he has received best lyricist award at almost every major award function. and now writing lyrics for Omkara, Baat Pakki, Blue Umbrella, Guru, Jhoom Barabar Jhoom and Jaaneman with a couple of untitled films. He has recently did a tele serial on Munshi Premchand's works titled Tehrir... Munshi Premchand ki, which was on air recently..
Although films gave him a mass recognition, Poetry always remained his first love. His first poetry collection Ek Boond Chaand was published in 1962. Roopa - Harper Collins has recently published his new poetry book Triveni. A collection of Gulzar poems titled "Raat, Chaand aur Mein" was also released recently, covering poems related to only Raat and Chaand.Another peotry collection Raat Pashmine ki has recently been published in Pakistan. The Indian version of Raat Pashmine Ki is released later on Roopa-Harper. Mera Kuchh Samaan and Chhaiyya Chhaiyya are the two song collections of gulzar.
Rajkamal Prakashan is presently compiling the script of gulzar saab's films in the form of a book. The series is titled "Manjarnaama" Till daate five manjarnaamas are out including Libaas, Hututu, Aandhi, Khushbu and Meera. A few more manjarnaamas would be available in coming time.
Last few years are the years of experimentation, where many young artists from different faculties worked with Gulzar and provided new expressions to his work. Some of the notable experiments include Kharaashein - a play by Salim Arif on Gulzar's short stories, Udaas Paani - an experimental music album by Abhishek Ray and, Gulzar's Poetry on Canvas by a young Painter Ajay Kumar Samir. Kharaashein has now been published in the form of a book on Radhakrishna Prakashan. Meghna Gulzar has recently come up with a biographical sketch of Gulzar saab in the form of a book titled "Because He Is...". Recently he penned the theme song "Lau se lau jalti rahe" for Olympic Torch Relay event at New Delhi and "Chal dilli chalein chalna hai" for Commonwealth Games to be held in New Delhi in 2010.
Gulzar has won 5 National Awards and 18 Filmfare Trophies. For details check Katra-Katra Section on this site. He has been awarded the SAHITYA AKADEMY AWARD in 2003 for his collection of short stories "Dhuaan". FILMFARE has honoured him with a LifeTime Achievement Award for his contribution to Hindi Cinema in 2002.
Government of India has conferred Gulzar saab with the National Honour of PADMABHUSHAN.
Long live Gulzar.
Latest News
| Selected Poems by Gulzar
A new book on translation of Gulzar saab's selected poems by Noted ''My lyrics are influenced by my verses,' says the lyricist-poet, who prefers free-flowing verses to meter and rhyme. 'I don't think I can define my themes. But all my poems are about life and the way it affects and appeals to me" Why Gulzar saab?, Sh. Varma has a reason, "When I happened to read them, I was convinced that the works need a much wider audience as compared to what it has now - primarily films".. The 136 page Hardbound Book is released by Penguin in India. |
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| Two Tales of My Times : New Book Release
"I have lived thru the catastrophic Partition and also experienced the times of Nehru, Gandhi and Azad who by personal example were able to inspire a surge of hope in newely independent India. I have observed and experienced as a common man, that the events that shaped the nations journey after that era, in the 70s and 80s. Both the stories related to that period." Check out for this important document of his times.. and our times... |
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| Qatrah-Qatrah : A Tribute to Pancham
The book was released on 4th January, 2008 by Hema Malini at a musical evening dedicated to Pancham da at Dinanath Mangeshkar Auditorium, Mumbai. Noted Singer and Music Director Bhupinder Singh who had a great rapport with Pancham da and Gulzar saab graced the evening and rendered soulful melodies of Gulzar-Pancham team. The highlight of the evening was Bhupinder ji's rendering of "Yaad hai Pancham, baarishon ke din", Gulzar saab's nazm on Pancham. The book is compiled by Vishwas Nerurkar and Vishwanath Chaterjee and published by Gayatri Publications, Mumbai. The book features articles, interviews on the relationship of Gulzar and Pancham and the lyrics of all the songs that the duo did together including the unreleased ones like Devdas, bharosa and Abhi Abhi. Release Function (January 4, 2008, Dinanath Mangeshkar Auditorium, Mumbai) |
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| Gulzar saab once again with Maestro Illaiyaraja
Gulzar saab has been teamed up with Illaiyaraja for a new under production film directed by debutant Ajoy Verma. The yet untitled film marks the coming together aof a great pair that gave us an unforgettable score in Sadma. Even after so many years and so many thousands of listenings, songs like Ae zindagi gale laga le and Surmai ankhiyon me nanha munna ik sapna deja re are as fresh as they were 25 years ago. After Sadma, Gulzar saab and Illaiyaraja shared the credits in Revathy's Mitr My Friend where Gulzar saab penned one song. For this new film a few songs have already been recorded, one of them is "Mujhko itne se kaam pe rakh lo" rendered by Roop Kumar Rathore. (Remember last time Vishal made the same poem into a song in Boodhey Pahadon Par) Looking forward to the coming together of two legends... more details soon.. |
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| Chand Parosa Hai
A new musical offering of Gulzar saab with Bhupinder-Mitali titled "Chand Parosa Hai" is out and available. The album features a collection of 8 non film nazms and songs composed by Bhupinder ji and rendered by Bhupinder-Mitali. The album is released on Times Music. -------------------- |
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| The Life and Cinema of Gulzar
A new book on the life and works of gulzar saab has been published by Roopa & co. Penned by noted journalist Saibal Chaterjee, the book provides insight of film maker gulzar and takes a closer look at his creative journey in the film industry as a writer and director. Apart from the information on making of his films and critical evaluation of the work, the book also provide a handful of interesting trivia about gulzar saab's films. Saibal Chaterjee earlier co authored an Encyclopedia on Bollywood with Gulzar saab.
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| Youvraj : Gulzar, Rehman and Subhash Ghai together
Gulzar saab is writing lyrics for a forthcoming film titled "Yuvraj". A R Rahman is composing music for this Subhash Ghai venture. After the success of Guru, Gulzar-Rahman once again teamed up and a few songs have already been recorded. More details soon.. |
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| Dus Kahaniyaan : Ten Poems and a Screenplay
Sanjay Gupta's latest multi story-single flick venture "Dus Kahaniyaan" marks the comeback of Screenplay writer Gulzar for one of the ten stories, "Gubbare" directed by Sanjay Gupta, featuring Nana Patekar, Ronit Roy and Anita in the lead. Gulzar saab has penned the screen play and dialogs for this story of DusK.
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| Gulzar saab Conveys Thanks to All his FANS
Gulzar saab has conveyed a note of Thanks for all gulzar fans for sending him a bouquest of wishes on his 74th Birthday... He said he is delighted to receive all the messages and gifts. Though he was not happy with some of the messages specially the ones placing him along with ghalib in the same frame of wishes. He said "Ghalib sekoi tulna karataa hai to apne kaan pakad leta hoon, jabki mujhe pakadne uske chahiye, jisne ye naalayaki ki hai".. He also narreted a few of his recent nazms. |
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| Kusumagraj ki Suni Chuni kavitaayein : Translations by Gulzar
The latest work of gulzar saab titled "Kusumagraj ki Suni Chuni Kavitaayen", featuring translations of poems of noted Marathi poet Kusumagraj was released recently. The collection is released in both Urdu and Devnagrui script. Urdu book has been published by Sahitya Akadami while the book in hindi script is published by Vaani Prakashan. |
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| Gulzar saab at Vishwa Hindi Sammelan - New York
July 16, New York.
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| Gulzar saab in Parliament
May 10, New Delhi.
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| Amrita Pritam recited by Gulzar
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| Pu La Deshpande Award
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| Khushboo.e.Gulzar
24.12.06... A day to remember for life(s). Moments to Chreish forever. Check out the meet pictures at http://www.gulzaronline.com/roobaroo/roobaroo.htm Detailed Report Coming Soon... |
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Raavi Paar now translated in Gujarati The Gujarati version of Raavi Paar was released in Mumbai by Gulzar
saab. Raavi Paar is translated in Gujarati by Ms. Preeti D. Kothi. A
grand musical night of Gulzar's songs was held on the occasion. |
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Manzarnaama A new series of books has been compiled by Radhakrishna Prakashan featuring the scripts of gulzar saab's films. The series is titled "Manzarnaamaa' and five manzarnaamaa's are already been published and available in the series. They are 'Libaas', 'Hututu', 'Meera', 'Aandhi' and 'Khushboo' .. A big plus in 'Meera' is an interesting interview of gulzar saab by yashwant vyas. |
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Lifetime Achievement Award for Gulzar saab Bhartiya Vidya Bhawan has honoured Gulzar saab with The Life Time Achievement Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution in Indian Poetry and Music. The award will be given to him in New York on the 24th April, 2006. A short documentary of 18 minutes made by Meghna gulzar on Gulzar saab's life will also be featured at the function. Hearties Congratulations from all gulzarfans! |
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Chal dilli chalein : Song for the Commonwealth Games Gulzar saab has penned the theme song "Chal Dilli Chalein" for the 2010 Commonwealth Games to be hosted in New Delhi. A galaxy of stars were present at the recently concluded Melbourne Commonwealth games to perform at the closing ceremony to showcase India's diverse culture, magnificent landscape and rich heritage in a cultural presentation. Sonu Nigam, Shreya ghoshal, Shamak Davar and Sunidhi Chauhan performed live on Gulzar saab's theme song composed by shankar-Ehsan-Loy.
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Its raining awards Gulzar saab has won the award for the best lyricist of 2005 in all the major award functions. Naam ada likhna won at Screen while Kajaraare won at the Filmfare and Zee. Congratulations from all gulzarfans. |
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Kab Aate Ho : New Compilation Released Great News for the lovers of Gulzar saab's voice and poetry. Times music has released a new compilation of Gulzar saab's poems and songs mostly in his voice. The album features three new poems in the voice of gulzar saab 'Baarish', 'Rozgaar ke silsile' and 'Dard kuchh der hi'. the album also features his narrations from Udaas Paani, Raincoat,Sunset Point and Marasim. Here is the Track Lisitng
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Pinnocchio by Gulzar Pinnocchio
is musical drama scripted by gulzar saab was recently staged at the Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi. The fairytale musical presentation featured hundreds of children creating the adventures of pinnocchio in dance-theatre form on stage.
Gulzar saab has done the script, lyrics and narration,
and Ustad Zakir Hussain and brother Taufiq Qureshi have composed the music. Vasmati Misra, famous kathak dancer
and daughter-in-law of
Birju Maharaj conceptualized this production and after a successful showindelhi, her group Dhwani will take this presentation to various cities in the country. An audio album featuring the songs of gulzar and his narration of the story is expected soon. |
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Mera Kuchh Samaan : Anthology on Saregama HMV "When HMV expressed a desire to do a compilation of my songs for my birthday I was skeptical. 'Not another anthology. Hasn't the public had enough of my compilations already?' But they were adamant. Mera Kuchh Samaan features 56 of the finest tracks and the complete track list is as below.
Related Links :Jaya Bachchan launches Bhai Gulzar's masterpieces || Picture Gallery of the launch function || Mera Kuchh Samaan packs in some surprises : Gulzar |
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Kuchh Aur Nazmein "Mera kitaab se lagaav nahin jaata |
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AGNEE KI UDAAN (WINGS OF FIRE) : Audiobook on Honorable President Abdul Kalaam's Autobiography
The hindi and urdu version of the audio book of More Links :Wings of Fire @ Karaditales.com |
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Gulzar saab's many books available in BRAIL script
Gulzar's saab books are now available in Brail. This has been made possible with the efforts of Bhopal's organisation "AARUSHI". Many of the children books are available in Brail as well the popular poetry collection "Pukhraj" |
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MIRZA GHALIB - A BIOGRAPHICAL SCENARIO
"In sheer imagery, every bit of which has been derived from the sights and sounds of India, he reigns supreme. I am but his humble servant," said Gulzar. "His other servants have passed away, as has Ghalib, but I am still in his service." "In every age, people will turn to him for words whenever they want to find words to express the deepest passions of their heart" The book is published by Rupa & Co and priced Rs. 395 and USD 8.50 respectively. Related Links :I am Ghalib's Servant || Gulzar releases book || Buy Online at Oxford Bookstore |
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After Munshi Premchand, its time for RabindraNath Tagore As gulzar saab's latest TV Series on Munshi Premchand is having a Re-run on popular demand, gulzar saab has started working on his next TV series for Doordarshan on the works of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore. "I am reading my favourite Tagore stories all over again in order to select a few of them for adaptation for television," says Gulzar. "That is the greatest joy of making a serial on these stories - it gives me an opportunity to revisit the treasure trove that is Tagore." |
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Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award The Bengal Film Journalists' Association recently honoured Gulzar saab with the Satyajit Ray Lifetime Achievement Award. Congratulations from all gulzarfans! |
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Pakistan Visit
Here are some other reports on his Pakistan visit.
Report Links :Gulzar in Pakistan || Lost in Lahori Love || A song in his heart |
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Tehreer... Munshi Premchand ki
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NATIONAL HONOUR PADMABHUSHAN FOR GULZAR SAAB
Heartiest congratulations to Gulzar saab from all gulzar fans!!!. |
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Mirza Ghalib on DVD Gulzar's tele serial on Mirza Ghalib is now being released on DVD. Mirza Ghalib stars Naseeruddin Shah in title role with Amzad Khan, Tanvi Azmi, Sudhir Dalvi, Neena Gupta, Rajendra Gupta and Shfi Inaamdar in prominent roles. The serial is one of the finest documents of the life and times of Mirza Ghalib. Saregama HMV is expected to release the DVDs by May-June this year. Watch out for it. |
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Because He Is... a book on Gulzar by Meghna Title : Because He Is... |
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Kharaashein now in the form of a book
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| Kharaashein Kharaashein, a collage of Gulzar's literary creations, based on communal strife is on the floorboards. Kharaashein was premiered in July and was later played in many Theator festivals in Mumbai in September and November 2003 [including National theator Festival and Prithvi festival]... Kharaashein includes Hilsa, a story about middle-class attitude to riots which focusses on a Bengali family. Forced to stay at home because of the violence, it becomes a day to celebrate with hilsa fish instead. Khauff from Gulzar's books Raavi Par is a monologue
about fear and its impact on the psyche of a normal person in anxiety.
The third story Khuda Hafiz is a dramatisation of Samaresh Basu's Adab
with Gulzar exploring the The cast consists of Atul Kulkarni, Kishore Kadam, Vaishali Thakkar, Ganesh Yadav, Yashpal Sharma, Lubna Salim and Anoop Soni. These stories are enacted with Tina Bopiah's paintings
on the riots in the backdrop. Director Salim Arif and executive producer
Manhar Gadhia want to make people aware that these things affect all of
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Kaagaz Kaghaz by Yashwant Vyas - Check out this excellent new information source on Gulzar saheb. The web site created by author-journalist Yashwant Vyas is titled "Kaghaz". The site features some of the very interesting opinions, discussions and moments shared between Gulzar saheb and Yashwant Vyas. Its available at http://kagaz.tripod.com.... Check it out. |
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| Awaaz mein lipati Khamoshi - A book on a letter to Gulzar
Mushkil hai aakaash pe chalana, Taarey paaon mein chubhtey hain
[Information courtesy :Jehangir Parvez, Pakistan] |
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Gulzar Chat Transcript 7th December, 2002 was a special day for all gulzar fans as Gulzar saab appeared for a live chat with his fans from all around the globe. Click here for a draft-transcript of the live internet chat of Gulzar saab. |
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| Raat Pashminey Ki After the release of Gulzar's latest poetry collection "Raat Pashmine ki" in Pakistan, Rupa & Co. have recently released the indian version in Devnagri and Urdu recently. The collection is simply Fantastic. More than 125 nazms, poems and trivenis are included with most of it are new ones... and the collection in RPK takes us a level beyond "Pukhraaj" collection... The book start with a couple of poems dedicated to bosky... moves on to present various "Manzar's [fasadaat, mumbai hawa mahal], provides us portraits of various famous artists [Naseer, Amzad Khan and Pancham], splash colors of Romance on paper and finally finishes with a bunch of Trivenis... what more you can ask for in a Gulzar collection.. A must buy for all gulzar poetry fans... Baanagi pesh hai 1. Waqt ye sakhta hai chunaav ka 2.
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| News Archives Jhoom Barabar Jhoom, Just Married, Blue Umbrella, Guru, Jaan.e.Mann, Omkara, Bunty aur Bubli, Koi Baat Chale, Paheli, Yahaan, Raincoat, Maqbool, Heer and Kabeer by abida, Raat Chand aur Main, Athens, Ishqa Ishqa, Dhaage, Udaas Paani, Pinjar, Makdee, Poetry on a Canvas, FilmFare Life Time Achievement Award , Filhaal, Laal Salaam, Visaal, Triveni, Leela, Birf, HMV releasing old films music... This and Lot More in the News Archive Section... Click Here to visit archives
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Anthology : Filmi : Lyricist: Lyricist:
Lyricist : Lyricist : Lyricist : Lyricist : PANCHAMBEATS - Tribute to Pancham on his tenth death anniversary - Saregama Lyricist : Chupke Se - Saregama HMV Non Filmi : Kab Aate Ho - Times Music Ishqa Ishqa - Music Today |
Manzarnaamaa :- Gulzar presents scripts of Libaas, Hututu, Meera, Aandhi and Khushboo in the form of a book. On Radhakrishna Prakashan, New Delhi. Kuchh Aur Nazmein :- The second edition of this collection of nazms is out after twenty five years. Biographical Scenario of Mirza Ghalib :- Gulzar now presents the screen play of his TV Serial Mirza Ghalib in the form of a book. He draws the visual sketches from the life of the legendary poet in his own style. Raat Pashminey Ki :- A collection of poems and nazms by Gulzar saheb was recently published and released in Pakistan (Urdu) and India (Hindi and Urdu). Chhaiyya Chhaiyya & Mera Kuchh Saaman : The first edition of Chhaiyya Chhaiyya and the third edition of Mera Kuchh Saaman - both collections of Hindi Film Songs by Gulzar is now available. It is published by Radhakrishna Prikashan of New Delhi. The two books provide a great colloection with lyrics of more than 200 songs by Gulzar - right from Bandini to Filhaal. Mera Kuchh Saaman fetures old songs while Chhaiyya Chhaiyya fetures relatively new songs of Gulzar saheb. Ravi Paar & Other Short Stories : A Collection of short stories of Gular has recently been published by Rupa & Co. This book is dedicated to Raakhi Gulzar - whom gulzar has described as "the logest short story of my life ". Wait and Watch for few excerpts in coming days. The book is now available in English and Hindi. |
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