tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38706652011-04-21T21:44:48.848-04:00gulzarGulzarv9yhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07973018577021600722noreply@blogger.comBlogger91100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3870665.post-1058280828851290982003-07-15T10:53:00.000-04:002003-07-15T10:53:48.686-04:00Gulzar to bring Munshi Premchand alive - The Times of India:
"MUMBAI: For poet, lyricist and film veteran Gulzar, life and literature are inextricably linked.
He has now decided to adapt Munshi Premchand's stories for TV, and the decision coincides with the passing away of literary doyen Bhisham Sahni whose Tamas was serialised with haunting effect for the small screen.
Gulzar speaks on v9yhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07973018577021600722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3870665.post-921541582003-04-07T11:36:00.000-04:002003-04-07T11:36:49.123-04:00Screen > The Business of Entertainment: Gulzar
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I’ve bunked work because I want to watch the England India test match on TV. Gavaskar has made 223 runs. I feel jubilant. There’s a personal pride in Gavaskar’s achievement... Nothing is as fabulous as being able to defeat these haughty, horrible Englishmen! I feel a sudden relief as if a long-cherished desire has been v9yhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07973018577021600722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3870665.post-921539372003-04-07T11:32:00.000-04:002003-04-07T11:32:45.873-04:00Screen > The Business of Entertainment
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In his poems he appears to be obsessed with the moon. Draws all kinds of analogies. Romanticizes it. Compares it to the face of his beloved. At home, he removes his spectacles and asks, ‘How many years ago was it that Armstrong landed up there?’ In magazines, he is always linked with his heroines to whom he writes love poems and songs. In Pali Hill, he v9yhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07973018577021600722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3870665.post-867072512002-12-30T14:06:00.000-05:002002-12-30T14:06:24.376-05:00Communal divide in Gujarat anti-human: Gulzar : HindustanTimes.com
Well-known lyricist, filmmaker and writer Gulzar has said politicians are responsible for the "anti-human" communal polarisation of Gujarat.
Gulzar, who was here to attend a function organised by Unicef to interact with deprived children Sunday evening, also expressed concern at the India-Pakistan divide.
He released a book ofv9yhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07973018577021600722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3870665.post-865601102002-12-26T15:56:00.000-05:002002-12-26T15:56:33.110-05:00Gulzar wins Sahitya Akademi award - The Times of India
NEW DELHI: Partition, the local trains of Mumbai, Bimal Roy... these are the focus of some of the short stories in Gulzar's Dhuan. The anthology has won him the Sahitya Akademi for Urdu, while Amit Choudhuri wins it for the English novel, A New World, and Mahesh Elkunchwar for Yugant, the play in Marathi.
These are among the 22 awards v9yhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07973018577021600722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3870665.post-832272262002-10-19T18:20:00.000-04:002002-10-19T18:20:36.880-04:00Gulzar to direct campaign for healthcare business - Oct 1, 2002
The advertising campaign for Ranbaxy’s new consumer healthcare business has been directed by noted lyricist Gulzar.
“The television campaign consists of two television commercials — one in Hindi and the other in English — of 40 seconds each,” Atul Malhotra, head, global consumer healthcare, Ranbaxy, said. The commercials, which v9yhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07973018577021600722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3870665.post-832271392002-10-19T18:17:00.000-04:002002-10-19T18:17:37.656-04:00rediff.com: Water in melancholy, a new sound
Excerpts from a Rediff interview with Gulzar about "Udaas Paani" - his new album with Abhishek Ray
I ran into Abhishek Ray in Delhi. He wanted me to hear some of his compositions; I gladly agreed. That is how we decided to collaborate on Udaas Pani. This album can neither be called a music album nor a poetry album. The music and poetry merge with v9yhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07973018577021600722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3870665.post-832270022002-10-19T18:13:00.000-04:002002-10-19T18:13:09.060-04:00Rediff interview with Gulzar (January 1999)
You are quite taken up with Bengali literature... Is it because you worked with Bengali film-makers like Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee?
Certainly not, because I even married a Bengali! It's the influence and the fascination of Bengal that made me marry one.
Since my schooldays, I've read the translations of Bengali writers. I'm Punjabi, but I v9yhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07973018577021600722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3870665.post-832268462002-10-19T18:07:00.000-04:002002-10-19T18:07:34.446-04:00Rediff interview with Gulzar (April 1997)
"Libaas is about a husband and wife relationship, it has great performances by Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi," says he, about the film which is yet to secure commercial release. "How we admire the great works of fiction, and how when fictional circumstances become real we react differently, is what the film's underlying theme is."
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And what of v9yhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07973018577021600722noreply@blogger.com