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New Delhi, Hindi cinema veteran Gulzar on Saturday mentioned he believes that he hasn’t misplaced his childishness and it’s most likely why he is ready to provide you with songs that resonate with audiences of all generations.
“I really feel I have never grown up, and that is why I am nonetheless a baby. I have never misplaced my childishness. I nonetheless play, write, and share the ideas of younger folks and youngsters like I did within the earlier days,” the 90-year-old author mentioned.
He was talking at a session in the course of the Sahitya Aaj Tak on the Main Dhyan Chand Nationwide Stadium right here.
Requested about his skill to attach throughout ages, Gulzar referenced the writings of Rabindranath Tagore.
“In Tagore’s writing, there’s a point out as nicely… Somebody as soon as requested him, ‘Your hair is all white now, do you are concerned about ‘pralok’ ?’ He mentioned, ‘Why do you simply see my hair? I am a poet of all ages.’
“Whether or not you might be with youngsters or folks of various ages, you converse in another way with all of them, whether or not it’s your grandfather, mom, brother or sister. One ought to keep in mind that you reside totally different lives in a single life. And so I write songs for various ages,” he mentioned.
In keeping with Gulzar, a music should really feel like part of the film, in any other case, it’ll really feel misplaced.
“Once we write a music, we’ve the story and the scenario in entrance of us. If it doesn’t justify the scenario, then the music would really feel fallacious in a film. But it surely all the time has an adaptability issue—the movie’s story would resonate with others. Another person may need confronted the same scenario and, subsequently, might interpret the music in another way,” he mentioned.
He recounted how he got here up with the music “Mera Kuch Samaan” for his 1987 film “Ijaazat”, starring Rekha, Naseeruddin Shah and Anuradha Patel.
“It is a lengthy music and after I instructed RD Burman about it, he mentioned it’s a good scene. I instructed him it’s a music and he checked out me after which tossed it apart. He mentioned it’s a scene, not a music. He mentioned at some point you’ll deliver a newspaper and ask me to put in writing a tune for it. Asha ji was sitting there solely.
“I instructed Pancham that it isn’t a prose. Then he heard Asha ji buzzing one thing. He requested her about it. Then she sang a little bit of that music, after which one sentence, then one other and within the course of, he composed your entire monitor,” he mentioned.
Gulzar additionally mentioned the success of the songs that he wrote belonged to the composers.
“But when it reaches the folks and so they really feel what I’m attempting to convey—whether or not it’s ache or one thing else—then it’s my credit score. Just like the music ‘Tere Bina Zindagi Se’ , in case you really feel what I’m attempting to say, then that’s my success,” he mentioned.
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