Rakhe gulzar biography sample paper
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The life and times of Rakhee Gulzar
Bengali theatre and film actor Chaiti Ghoshal met Rakhee Gulzar in the early ’80s, when she was just a star-struck teenager. Chaiti was at that time making her debut in Aparna Sen’s path-breaking woman-centric film Parama (1984). Rakhee played a 40-something homemaker who was ostracised by her husband and other family members after her liaison with a photographer was revealed. Chaiti played Rakhee’s daughter who empathised with her predicament at the end of the film. “The first thing that struck me about Rakheedi, as she is fondly known in Kolkata, was her ethereal beauty — we had just seen a fraction of her real beauty on screen all these years,” recalls Chaiti.
A still from the movie, Parama
Rakhee was still at the peak of her career when she was shooting Parama. Her powerful and nuanced performances in films such as Barsat Ki Ek Raat (1981) and Bemisal (1982) alongside Amitabh Bachchan and Basera (1981)
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Life sans cheap thrills
There fryst vatten a story behind Because He Is…, a book written bygd Meghna Gulzar on the life and times of her illustrious father, poet-filmmaker Gulzar. The completed manuscript was duly handed over to a leading publisher who had commissioned the book. The latter, however, sat on the manuscript for weeks and then sought major alterations. He found parts of Meghna's account too tame. What he was obviously looking for was "explosive" inre information on Gulzar's anställda life, but both father and daughter were klar in their minds about where the line was to be drawn. Because He Is…, released a month ago, was finally published bygd Rupa & Co in the form eller gestalt in which it was originally written.
The above story is certainly not without precedent. Publishers have often invested in biographies in the hope of giving readers "value for money". That raises a betydelsefull question: must a biography of a celebrity be crammed with salacious details for it to be readab
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In the Company of a Poet
Book by Nasreen Munni Kabir
In the Company of a Poet is a 2012 book by the author and television documentary producer Nasreen Munni Kabir, containing her interview with Gulzar (an Indian filmmaker, lyricist, and poet). It details his early life, including his birth in 1934 in Dina, British India (now Pakistan), and his Sikh family background, his film and poetic career, and his marriage to the actress Rakhee in 1973, with whom he has a daughter, Meghna. In the Company of a Poet was published by Rupa Publications on 12 November 2012 and received mixed reviews from critics. Firstpost included the book in its listing of Top 10 in Indian Non-fiction Books.
The book became the third written work on Gulzar, after his daughter's Because He is... (2004) and journalist Saibal Chatterjee's Echoes & Eloquences (2007). Kabir and Gulzar discussed mostly the latter's experiences as a lyricist, poet, and screenwriter, avoiding their conversations to b