By
Komal Badve (Team Creatives)
Links to the music
referred to will be available at the end of the article.
One
fine day, a little girl (now a friend of mine) ran up to a man wearing a white kurta and pajama, and hugged him tight thinking he was her grandfather. Unfortunately
for her he turned out to be poet extraordinaire Gulzar. Fortunately for me, I
found a great way to start this article.
Before
becoming a writer and adopting the pseudonym ‘Gulzar’, Sampooran Singh Kalra
worked at a garage in Mumbai where he used to touch up accident cars by
creating shades of paint. “I had a knack for colours.” is what he once said.
His career kick-started with him as a songwriter, with none other than S.D.
Burman, for the movie Bandini. He
wrote the lyrics to the timeless melody ‘Mora
Gora Ang Lai Le’, sung by Lata Mangeshkar.
It
was during the writing sessions of this song that he first met Panchamda, which
paved way for one of the most fire duos in the Hindi film industry. For their
first movie ‘Parichay’ Gulzar gave
Pancham the first two lines of the song ‘Musafir
Hun Yaaron’ to compose. Being the creative genius that he was, R.D. came up
with the tune to this song while bathing. Gulzar never denies that the music
for this movie was inspired by Robert Wise’s ‘The Sound of Music’. ‘Sa Re Ga Ma...’ being the Hindi equivalent of ‘Do Re
Mi..’, made the song ‘Sa Re Ke Sa
Re’, Pancham and Gulzar’s answer to ‘Doe
a Deer’.
Gulzar
was particularly known and loved for the lyrics ‘Humne Dekhi Hai Un Aankhon Ki Mehekti Khushboo’ from the movie ‘Khamoshi’. The mixing of senses to
create figures of speech is an art only he has mastered. He was also acclaimed
for writing lyrics such as, ‘Waadion Mein
Gunjti Huin Khamoshiyan Sune’.
Not
only was Gulzar in close association with S.D Burman and Laxmikant-Pyarelal,
but he has also worked with the likes of the more recent Vishal Bharadwaj and
Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy. He wrote the lyrics for the famous song ‘Chaiyya Chaiyya’, based on the Sufi
folk song ‘Thaiyya Thaiyya’ by poet
Bulleh Shah. Gulzar also won an Academy Award for the song ‘Jai Ho’, in collaboration with A.R. Rahman.
On a concluding note, it fair to say that Gulzar
gave this entire generation its childhood with the evergreen song in the link
below. Try holding back the feels after this one –
Other
links:
‘Mora Gora Ang Lai
Le’ -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu7JsGN2wHo
‘Musafir Hoon Yaaron’
-https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nCi5kwD1Y8
‘Sa Re Ke Sa Re’ -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_kTeoaSkek
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