Gulzar

Gender: Male
Date of birth: 18 Aug 1934
Date of birth: 01 Mar 2019
Age: 0

Sampooran Singh Kalra, known popularly by his pen name Gulzar, is an Indian poet, lyricist, and film director. Born in Jhelum District in British India his family moved to India after partition. He started his career with music director S. D. Barman star at This Film - Shriman Satyawadi (lyricist - as Gulzar Deenvi) Gulzar is a writer, a lyricist, a director and, at heart, a poet. His films, sensitive, lyrical, and yet successful, were a welcome relief from the violent films that filled the 1970s and 1980s Music has a natural place in our lives. Right from the shloka you recite in your morning puja and the milkman who comes whistling on his cycle, to the fakir singing as he begs for alms and your mother humming around the kitchen. Music fills our spaces naturally. It will always be dear to us. My regret in life is I never directed Rajesh Khanna in any of my movies. There were 3 projects for which I wanted him to star but eventually Sanjeev Kumar did them. The only satisfaction is that I wrote dialogs for his films - Khamoshi, Anand, Mehboob Ki Mehndi, Andaz,Bawarchi and wrote screenplay for Namak Haraam and wrote the story for Palkon Ki Chhaon Mein. All of them were critically acclaimed hit films except for Palkon Ki Chaon Mein and even that was critically acclaimed though a flop. He gave life to each of the dialogs written by me and brought life to those characters.He was very close friend of R.D.Burman and Kishore Kumar.I also never ever directed Amitabh Bachchan or my wife Rakhee in any of my films Gulzar is a writer, a lyricist, a director and, at heart, a poet. His films, sensitive, lyrical, and yet successful, were a welcome relief from the violent films that filled the 1970s and 1980s. Born Sampooran Singh Kalra in Deena, in the Jhelum District in what is now Pakistan, he came to Delhi after the partition during independence as a poet. He joined Bimal Roy Productions in 1961 and got his first break as a lyricist writing for Bimal Roy's Bandini (1963). The success of this film made him Bimalda's full-time assistant and got him writing for films by acclaimed directors like Hrishikesh Mukherjee and Asit Kumar Sen. Some of the films he has written include Anand (1971), Guddi (1971), Bawarchi (1972), and Namak Haraam (1973) for Mukherjee; and Do Dooni Char (1968), Khamoshi (1970), and Safar (1970) for Sen