Birth name Sampooran Singh Kalra NationalityInde Birth 18 august 1934 (90 years) at Dina, Pakistan (Pakistan) Awards Sahitya Akademi Award, Padma Bhushan, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, Filmfare Awards
Sampooran Singh Kalra (born 18 August 1934), known popularly by his pen name Gulzar, is an Indian poet, lyricist and director. He primarily writes in Hindustani (Hindi-Urdu) and Punjabi; besides several dialects of Hindi such as Braj Bhasha, Khariboli, Haryanvi and Marwari.
Gulzar was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 2004 for his contribution to the arts and the Sahitya Akademi Award in 2002. He has won a number of National Film Awards and 20 Filmfare Awards. At the 81st Academy Awards, he won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Jai Ho" (shared with A.R.Rahman), for the film Slumdog Millionaire. On 31 January 2010, the same song won him a Grammy Award in the category of Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media.
Gulzar's poetry is partly published in three compilations: Chand Pukhraaj Ka, Raat Pashminey Ki and Pandrah Paanch Pachattar (15-05-75). His short stories are published in Raavi-paar (also known as Dustkhat in Pakistan) and Dhuan (smoke).
As a lyricist, Gulzar is best known for his association with the music directors Rahul Dev Burman, A. R. Rahman and Vishal Bhardwaj. He has also worked with other leading Bollywood music directors including Sachin Dev Burman, Salil Chowdhury, Shankar Jaikishan, Hemant Kumar, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, Rajesh Roshan, Anu Malik, and Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy. Along with lyrics, he has also contributed in many films as script, story and dialogue writer. Films directed by him have also won numerous awards and have been critically acclaimed. He also had worked on small screen by creating series Mirza Ghalib and Tahreer Munshi Premchand ki among others. He wrote lyrics for several Doordarshan serials including Hello Zindagi, Potli Baba ki and Jungle Book. [...]See more...
, 2h51 Directed byRam Gopal Varma GenresDrama, Thriller, Action, Crime ThemesGangster films ActorsJ. D. Chakravarthy, Urmila Matondkar, Sushant Singh, Manoj Bajpayee, Paresh Rawal, Shefali Shah Roles Lyricist Rating82% Mumbai is in the midst of a turf war between two gangs, collectively referred to as the Mumbai underworld when Satya (J.D Chakravarthy), a man without a past, comes to the city looking for employment. While waiting tables at the local dance bar, he gets involved in a scuffle with Jagga (Jeeva), bag man for dreaded don Guru Narayan (Raju Mavani). Jagga takes his revenge by getting Satya arrested on false charges of pimping. In jail, Satya clashes with yet another member of Mumbai's mafia, underworld don Bhiku Mhatre (Manoj Bajpai), who is in prison pending trial for the murder of a prominent film producer. Mhatre, pleased with Satya's bravado, extends a hand of friendship and arranges for his release as well as accommodation. With Mhatre's help, Satya avenges himself by gunning down Jagga in the very same dance bar and joins Mhatre's gang. [...]See more...
Directed byKamal Haasan GenresDrama, Comedy ThemesFilms about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film ActorsKamal Haasan, Amrish Puri, Om Puri, Tabu, Johnny Walker, Paresh Rawal Roles Lyricist Rating73% Jaiprakash Paswan aka Jai (Kamal Hassan) and Janki Paswan (Tabu) are fighting a divorce case. Janki is the only daughter of Durgaprasad Bhardwaj (Amrish Puri), a staunch Brahmin businessman. Jaiprakash, a Dusadh, is an assistant dance director in films. The duo fell in love and married against the will of Durgaprasad. However, Janki buckled under the pressure of a middle-class life. Other differences cropped up between the couple and Janki walked out. The court grants the divorce. Jai is allowed to meet his beloved daughter Bharti (Baby Sana) once a week. But when he sneaks into the Bhardwaj house to steal Bharti, he loses visitation rights. [...]See more...
, 2h48 Directed byGulzar GenresThriller, Action, Crime ThemesFilms about terrorism ActorsTabu, Om Puri, Chandrachur Singh, Jimmy Shergill, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Kanwaljit Singh Roles Histoire Rating76% The film is set in mid-to-late 1980s in the Indian state of Punjab which had been wrecked by a violent insurgency in the aftermath of Operation Blue Star, the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, and the subsequent 1984 Anti-Sikh riots. The story is relayed by a series of flashbacks.
, 2h10 Directed byShyam Benegal GenresDrama ActorsFarida Jalal, Surekha Sikri, Sanjay Batra, Rajit Kapur, Rajeshwari Sachdev, Himani Shivpuri Roles Lyricist Rating77% 13-year-old Riyaz (Amit Phalke) lives a poor lifestyle in Bombay, India, with his grandmother, Fayyuzi (Surekha Sikri), and her sister, Mehmooda Begum alias Mammo (Farida Jalal). Quite outspoken and embittered over his dad abandoning him, Riyaz does not have many friends, save for Rohan. When Mammo plans a surprise birthday party for him, Riyaz is offended as he believes his friends will make fun of him as his lifestyle is not as good as theirs. Fayyuzi and Riyaz have an argument with Mammo, and she leaves for the mosque at Haji Ali; she returns when they apologize. Although Mammo was born in Panipat during the British Raj, she was one of thousands of Muslims who left for Pakistan after Partition. She and her husband automatically become Pakistani citizens. Although childless, her marriage is a happy one until her husband's death. Over property matters, Mammo is thrown out of the house by her relatives. [...]See more...
, 2h51 Directed byKetan Mehta OriginInde GenresDrama, Romance ThemesFilms about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, Films about suicide, Erotic films, Musical films, Madame Bovary, Bollywood ActorsDeepa Sahi, Farooq Sheikh, Raj Babbar, Shahrukh Khan, Paresh Rawal, Raghubir Yadav Roles Lyricist Rating54% Young, beautiful and intelligent Maya (Deepa Sahi) lives with her father in a palatial mansion in rural India. When her father suffers stroke, she calls for local Dr.Charu Das, who arrives on his bicycle and prescribes treatment for her father. He comes pretty often, more on the pretext of seeing her than her father. Eventually they get married. Years pass by and Charu is busy engrossed in treating patients, leaving Maya alone to ponder her own fate and life. And it is not long before a young man named Rudra enters her life and an affair follows. This does not last long, as a much younger man Lalit (Shah Rukh Khan) now enters her life and they begin a passionate affair. But again, Maya is not satisfied as she longs for more than bodily needs and it is perhaps this that leads to her sudden death, leaving two investigators to probe who or what really killed Maya. [...]See more...
, 2h8 GenresDrama ActorsDimple Kapadia, Rakhee Gulzar, Amjad Khan, Raj Babbar, Sushmita Mukherjee, Raghubir Yadav Roles Writer Rating73% The film is set in a small village in Rajasthan, India. It tells the story of a woman named Shanichari, who was abandoned by her mother shortly after her father's death. Bad fortune follows as she marries an alcoholic, who leaves her with little hope of a brighter future for herself and her mentally challenged son.
, 2h51 Directed byGulzar GenresDrama, Romance ActorsVinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Hema Malini, Amjad Khan, Alok Nath, Beena Banerjee Rating78% The movie takes place in the Indian desert state of Rajasthan, which gives it something in common with Rudaali, another off-beat drama set in Rajasthan that was released around the same time and also featured Dimple Kapadia and Amjad Khan.
, 2h17 Directed byGulzar GenresDrama, Musical, Romance ActorsRekha, Naseeruddin Shah, Anuradha Patel, Dina Pathak, Shammi Kapoor, Sulabha Deshpande Roles Dialogue Rating83% The movie is a powerful story that deals with feminism and patriarchy in the middle class India. It is about the present and past of Mahender and Sudha together as well as separately. The movie starts with Mahender (Naseeruddin Shah) getting down at the railway station and making his way to the waiting room just as it starts to rain heavily. A woman, Sudha (Rekha), is already sitting in the waiting room. On seeing him, she tries to hide from him but later they confront each other.
, 2h45 Directed byShekhar Kapur OriginInde GenresDrama, Musical theatre ThemesFilms about families, Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood, Children's films ActorsNaseeruddin Shah, Shabana Azmi, Jugal Hansraj, Urmila Matondkar, Supriya Pathak, Tanuja Roles Ecrivain Rating83% Indu (Shabana Azmi) and DK (Naseeruddin Shah) have a happy marriage and two daughters — Rinky and Minni — and live in Delhi. The tranquility of their life is interrupted when DK receives word that he has a son, the result of an affair with Bhavana (Supriya Pathak) during his visit to Nainital when his wife Indu was about to give birth to their first child Rinky. Bhavana did not tell DK about their son as she did not want to disturb DK's matrimonial life. Now that she has died, her guardian Masterji sends word to DK informing him that his son, Rahul (Jugal Hansraj), who is eight years old, needs a home. Despite the objections of Indu, who is devastated to learn of her husband's infidelity, DK brings the boy to stay with them in Delhi. Rahul is never told that DK is his father as he bonds with DK and his daughters. But Indu can't bear to look at him, a tangible reminder of DK's betrayal. [...]See more...
Directed byKailasam Balachander GenresDrama ActorsKamal Haasan, Anita Raj, Nilu Phule, Dr. Shriram Lagoo, Arjun Chakraborty, Karan Razdan Roles Dialogue Rating80% Kamal Haasan reprises his role as Rakesh, a graduate looking for work in the capital, sharing a small home with two other unemployed youth played by Amit (Karan Razdan) and Tilak (Arjun Chakraborty). Rakesh falls in love with a struggling actress Kusum (Anita Raj), whose life is likewise wretched having to take care of an old and ailing grandmother and a paralysed father (Nilu Phule).
Directed byPrakash Jha GenresDrama ThemesSports films ActorsRaj Kiran., Deepti Naval, Shafi Ali Inamdar, Ram Gopal Bajaj Roles Writer Rating74% A computer engineer, Sandeep Chowdhary (Raj Kiran) waiting to start his first job, takes up a temporary job as sports instructor in a school at Ranchi, where he encounters an apathetic school principal (Ram Gopal Bajaj) and develops a relationship with history teacher Anuradha Roy (Deepti Naval). Eventually he leads the football team to victory.
, 2h21 Directed byBalu Mahendra GenresDrama, Romance ActorsKamal Haasan, Sridevi, Gulshan Grover, Silk Smitha, J. V. Somayajulu, Arvind Deshpande Roles Lyricist Rating82% Nehalata (Sridevi) is a young, modern girl who meets with an accident that leaves her with the memory and intelligence of a seven-year-old. Circumstances lead her into prostitution, and in the brothel she meets Somu (Kamal Haasan). He realizes that she has been tricked into the trade. He rescues her and takes her to his home in Ooty and begins to take care of her. He knows Nehalata as Reshmi, which was the pseudonym given to her at the brothel. Reshmi reciprocates Somu's care as they spend several months together sharing an amazing and innocent relationship that treads the tender line between affection and love. The sub-plot of the film follows the wife of Somu's boss who is attracted to Somu, though Somu doesn't reciprocate her feelings. It depicts how the outside world succumbs to carnal desires which have no place in Somu and Reshmi's relationship. Somu takes Reshmi to the village's medical practitioner who cures her and brings her back to sanity as she regains her memory up to the point of her accident. When Somu comes to meet Reshmi later that day, she is unable to identify or remember him. Despite his efforts to make her understand that he was the one who had taken care of her for several months, she is indifferent to him and leaves Ooty for her hometown, thus abandoning Somu and the life and relationship that she once had with him. [...]See more...