Key facts
- Born
- 19 August 1933, Dina
- State of birth
- Dina
- Sector
- Film & entertainment
- Profession
- Indian poet, lyricist and author (1933- Present)
- Gender
- Male
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Biography
Gulzar is an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and film director known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is regarded as an important Urdu poet of this era. He started his career with music director S.D. Burman as a lyricist in the 1963 film Bandini and worked with many music directors including R. D. Burman, Salil Chowdhury, Vishal Bhardwaj and A. R. Rahman. Gulzar also writes poetry, dialogues and scripts. He directed films such as Aandhi and Mausam during the 1970s and the TV series Mirza Ghalib in the 1980s. He also directed Kirdaar in 1993. He attended United Christian School Ludlow Castle Delhi. He indicated this in Rekhta Prog in an interview by Divya Dutta.
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Timeline
- 1933Born in Dina
- 1972Awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue
- 1974Awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Dialogue
- 1977Awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Director
- 1988Awarded the National Film Award for Best Lyrics
- 1992Awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist
- 2002Awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award
- 2003Awarded the Zee Cine Award for Best Lyricist
- 2004Awarded the Padma Bhushan
- 2005Awarded the Gangadhar National Award
- 2006Awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist
- 2009Awarded the Academy Award for Best Original Song
- 2011Awarded the Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist
- 2014Awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award
- 2023Awarded the Jnanpith Award
Sources & licences
- English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- हिंदी विकिपीडिया (CC BY-SA 4.0) · 3/5
- Wikidata (CC0) · 3/5
- Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 3.0) · Bollywood Hungama