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| From left - Shantanu Moitra, Sandip Ray, Gulzar |
Sampooran Singh Kalra - the Brightest Star Personality among the stars that India is proud of well known to his admirers by his pen name Gulzar. He is not only admired as a world famous Shayar (Poet) but he is also recognized for his contributions in various fields like film direction, lyrics writing and acting. Moreover he is a well-versed orator. In one word, he is the perfect combination of creative talents that makes him a legendary persona.
On 26th August, Saturday Nandan, Kolkata's film hub, was blessed with the aura of this great personality. On the evening of Saturday, Gulzar first inaugurated a photography exhibition themed around his entire life time memories. Music director Shantanu Moitra, actor Saswata Chattopadhyay, Rahul Banerjee, Pandit Ajoy Chakraborty, Antara Chowdhury and many other popular personalities’ presence took the Majlis (party) into a different level.The bonus achievement of the day was the launch of two of Gulzar’s books- one is “Pantbhaate", (the Bengali
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| Gulzar Saheb |
translation of the book has been done by Sanchari Mukherjee). This book depicts the golden experiences and memories with some renowned Bengali personalities like Satyajit Ray, R.D Burman, Kishore Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Uttam Kumar, Mahasweta Devi and so on. The name of second book is “Pluto” and Sk. Sadar Nayeem had translated the book in Bengali. Both books are published by Dey’s Publication. “Gulzarish”, another Bengali book on Gulzar was published in the same event. Poet Shankha Ghosh remarked on the book, “Pluto” by saying “Pluto, isn’t the name quite wondrous but why?” He said, “Pluto in galaxy is no more considered as a planet, Gulzar similarly, being apart from his
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| From left - Shankha Ghosh, Gulzar Saheb, Shantanu Moitra, Saswata Chattopadhyay, Sandip Ray |
family writes so many short rhymes under the name of ‘Pluto’.” He also quoted, “Pluto was discovered in the year 1930 and Gulzar was born on 18th August, 1934; so he is four years younger than Pluto”. The second part of the show was “Guftagu with Gulzar”, a gossip session where personalities like Shantanu Moitra, Srijato, Sanchari Mukherjee, Sk. Sadar Nayeem took part and shared their experiences with Gulzar. The Guest of honour Gulzar ji also shared his experiences of life with audience. He made a remark about the current situation of the country saying that the time now is such that it is better to know the religion of others before revealing your own name. After that Sanchari Mukherjee read out some lines from the book “Pantabhaate” to the audience. She said,”I have tried my best to bring out the nostalgia of Pantbhaate from the core of my heart.” The whole thearte was filled with the astonishing recitations of Gulzar Saheb and Srijato. The huge participation by the people of Kolkata at the Nadan Premises to witness the presence of Living Legend Gulzar for once in their lifetime showed the love they had for this incredible legend.
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| From left - Gulzar Saheb, Sanchari Mukherjee |
(Reporting by Sanchari Chatterjee,Written by Ayana Chatterjee & Picture by Ashif Iquebal)
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