Gulzar

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Gulzar in 2008

Sampooran Singh Kalra (born August 18, 1936 in Dina , Punjab ), known by his author's pseudonym Gulzar ( Panjabi ਗੁਲਜ਼ਾਰ , Hindi गुलज़ार Gulazār ), is an Indian poet , songwriter , screenwriter and dialogue writer , film director and film producer . He works mainly in the Hindi and Urdu languages .

Life

Sampooran was born a Sikh in Dina in the Jhelam district. He took his pseudonym "Gulzar" when he started working as a writer.

He has been in the Hindi film business since the early 1960s . For Bimal Roys Bandini (1963) he wrote the song Mora gora ang lai and then became his assistant. In 1971 Gulzar made his debut as a director in Mere Apna , a remake of Tapan Sinhas Apanjan from 1968. His directorial work includes three film adaptations of Bengali literature by Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay and Samaresh Basu : Khushboo , Kitaab and Namkeen . In 1980, after the death of the documentary filmmaker S. Sukhdev , Gulzar completed his last film Shaira , a documentary about the actress Meena Kumari , who had also played the leading role in Gulzar's Mere Apna . Gulzar's most successful films after Mere Apna were Koshish (1972), Parichay (1972), Mausam (1975), Aandhi (1975), Lekin ... (1990) and Maachis (1996). In addition to the scripts for his own films, he also wrote dialogues for works by other directors such as Hrishikesh Mukherjees Ashirwad (1968), Asit Sens Khamoshi (1969), Shekhar Kapurs Masoom (1982) and others. Since the late 1980s he has worked several times for the Indian television Doordarshan , with his television series Mirza Ghalib with Naseeruddin Shah in the title role attracted particular attention.

In his work as a songwriter Gulzar was most successful. It led to a close collaboration with the composer Rahul Dev Burman , he also worked several times with Sachin Dev Burman , Salil Choudhury , Madan Mohan and AR Rahman .

Gulzar published the three volumes of poetry Janam , Ek Boond Chand and Kuch Aur Nazme , as well as several children's books, including a version of the Panchtantra in verse in Hindi.

He is married to the actress Raakhee . Her daughter Meghna Gulzar wrote the biography Because he is… about her father and works as a film director herself.

Awards

Gulzar has won nine Filmfare Awards for best songwriter , numerous National Film Awards and an Academy Award in 2009. In 2002 he received a Sahitya Akademi Award for his literary work . In 2004 he was awarded the Padma Bhushan . In 2014 he was awarded the significant Dadasaheb Phalke Award retrospectively for the past year .

Filmography (director)

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The poet as the father in The Sunday Tribune of January 4, 2004
  2. ↑ Sahitya Akademi Awards ( Memento of the original from April 10, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sahitya-akademi.org

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SURNAME Gulzar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gulzār; गुलज़ार (Hindi); Kalra, Sampooran Singh (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Indian poet, songwriter, screenwriter and dialogue writer, film director and film producer
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Dina , Punjab