Lifetime Achievement Award
April 17, 2006
The eighteen-minute film will be screened in New York this week where the poet filmmaker will be felicitated.
It's a daughter's tribute to her father," says Meghna Gulzar, currently in Paris, about her eighteen-minute film on her poet-filmmaker father. The untitled film will be screened this week in New York at a function to commemorate Gulzar.
"She has just completed the film. I loved it although there was one thing that puzzled me. How could my entire life be shown in just eighteen minutes? But jokes apart Meghna has made a sensitive film revolving around my body of work - films and literature," says Gulzar.
"In fact, my untitled film on my father is part of a larger full-length film that I plan to make on him shortly. So he doesn't need to feel that I've compressed his entire career in just eighteen minutes," adds Meghna.
Gulzar is off to New York along with Jagjit Singh shortly. "We are going to be part of the silver jubilee year celebrations of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in the US," he says.
"Sanskrit scholar Dr. Jai Raman is the director of the organisation and this is all his doing. On April 21 there will be a concert by Jagjit Singh where I'm supposed to introduce him. The following day there's a mushaira where two Hindi and two Urdu poets will participate. I don't know which language I've been chosen for since I'm at home with both these languages."
On April 24, Singh and Gulzar will be bestowed with the lifetime achievement awards by the Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan. "I've completed 45 years while Jagjit Singh has completed 40 years," says Gulzar.
The eighteen-minute film will be screened in New York this week where the poet filmmaker will be felicitated.
It's a daughter's tribute to her father," says Meghna Gulzar, currently in Paris, about her eighteen-minute film on her poet-filmmaker father. The untitled film will be screened this week in New York at a function to commemorate Gulzar.
"She has just completed the film. I loved it although there was one thing that puzzled me. How could my entire life be shown in just eighteen minutes? But jokes apart Meghna has made a sensitive film revolving around my body of work - films and literature," says Gulzar.
"In fact, my untitled film on my father is part of a larger full-length film that I plan to make on him shortly. So he doesn't need to feel that I've compressed his entire career in just eighteen minutes," adds Meghna.
Gulzar is off to New York along with Jagjit Singh shortly. "We are going to be part of the silver jubilee year celebrations of the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan in the US," he says.
"Sanskrit scholar Dr. Jai Raman is the director of the organisation and this is all his doing. On April 21 there will be a concert by Jagjit Singh where I'm supposed to introduce him. The following day there's a mushaira where two Hindi and two Urdu poets will participate. I don't know which language I've been chosen for since I'm at home with both these languages."
On April 24, Singh and Gulzar will be bestowed with the lifetime achievement awards by the Bhartiya Vidya Bhavan. "I've completed 45 years while Jagjit Singh has completed 40 years," says Gulzar.
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