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Up next is the popular trend of badmouthing today’s music directors while constantly celebrating the music makers of the past. I am not complaining… nor are Shaad and Vishal! I guess, one of the biggest reasons why both of them caught fire was also because they were played out by (Amitabh, Aishwarya, Abhishek, Bipasha) red-hot stars, in flamboyant style. It was focused, relevant and made-to-order lyrics. Over time, romantic notions about poets and poetry have embedded themselves so deeply and firmly in the public/popular psyche that anything that remotely conflicts with their perception and imagined version of a poet or his poetry, leads to a solid shake-out! To discerning, educated, evolved and intelligent viewers, both Kajra Re and Beedi Jalaile, were enjoyed as hundred percent poetry, the words, sensibility and feel totally embracing and in-sync with the requirements of the scene and the context it related to. My point is: why don’t people abandon their ghisa-pita and archaic ideas about how poetry should be written and how poets should look and live! For gawd’s sake, this is year 2008, not the fifteenth century! The image that emanated from the courts and the feudal period unfortunately seems fixated in their collective mind … why can’t a poet enjoy dancing, hit the disco, play tennis (or tabla), sleep early, get up early to go jogging, drink in moderation and engage in academic pursuits? Because it goes against the image! When Kajra Re burst on the scene, a couple of years ago (and threatened to become the national anthem, much like Beedi Jalaile, later!) an entire group of people were shocked that I, of all people, could write such populist and chalu stuff! Wasn’t I a Poet, someone who wrote about love, longing and loss … about emotion, sentiments, feelings and romance? This was such down market sadak chhaap stuff! From the maker of Aandhi, Mausam, Ijaazat, Mere Apne and Mirza Ghalib, this was the last thing they expected! Any break from that image is considered blasphemy. We begin with the type casting of poets and how they are popularly perceived to be in a certain, pre conceived mould….

However his reticence and life-in-the-shadows should not be mistaken for indifference or detachment to issues that matter.įrank and forthright, Gulzar has strong opinions, views and takes on a variety of subjects and he articulates them, only as he can. Playing out his chosen role as a poet, lyricist and film-maker par excellence, he has always been unique, consciously avoiding the spotlight, passionately engaged in artistic communion with his muse.