Your favorite directorial of great Gulzar - Page 3

Originally posted by: Sanya.91

all songs of MG r executed brilliantly.... especially "aah ko chahiye ik umer asar honay tak".

I am from Pakistan and the poetry of mirza Ghalib and other historical urdu poets' was a must in our urdu syllabus' course in schools & college as well with tashreeh(detailed exp), and then we have to memorize them and also their meanings for the examination, so we as students were bound to read and understand the fine detailing.

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Ya that song is so beautiful.. all songs are.. Mirza Ghalib TV series needs to be re-telecasted, such a treasure..

I see 😃 ..you're lucky to have dived so deep into such beautiful language through such great poets..

Koshish, it made me cry and I rarely cry while watching films.. Such a beautiful story and magical performance from Sanjiv kumar and Jaya bhaduri

From the list, Aandhi. Otherwise, Ijaazat.

Apart from Aandhi, Machis and Hu Tu Tu also had political backdrops. (I liked Machis). Songs of course are always the highlight in his movies (including Maachis).

Originally posted by: Ennuyi

Koshish, it made me cry and I rarely cry while watching films.. Such a beautiful story and magical performance from Sanjiv kumar and Jaya bhaduri

yeah, especially that tragedy of that infant in rain, due to his parents not been able to listen anything 😭

Originally posted by: Angel-likeDevil

Ya that song is so beautiful.. all songs are.. Mirza Ghalib TV series needs to be re-telecasted, such a treasure..

I see 😃 ..you're lucky to have dived so deep into such beautiful language through such great poets..

During academics' days, it used to feel like an annoying burden... but now seems like a blessing in disguise ... lol... :0)

Originally posted by: Sanya.91

During academics' days, it used to feel like an annoying burden... but now seems like a blessing in disguise ... lol... :0)

it sure is 😃

what's the meaning of this emoji -- :0)

Originally posted by: Angel-likeDevil

it sure is 😃

what's the meaning of this emoji -- :0)

was just smiling at my ignorance back then when I used to hate memorizing all those tough words and their meanings ...

Very nice topic. I love Parichay and Angoor very much.

I know Gulzar as a lyricist only. I am surprised that he had directed all the above movies.

Originally posted by: Tippy-top

Very nice topic. I love Parichay and Angoor very much.

I know Gulzar as a lyricist only. I am surprised that he had directed all the above movies.

yes he did....he is a director par excellence and dealt with all kinds of subjects in his own flavour

I binge watched Gulzar's movies. Voted for Angoor. 👍🏼 though I liked all these movies.

And I disagree with you. Lekin is a ghost movie. This was one movie whose concept he copied from A Portrait of Jennie. Now Jennie was made when the west was just coming to grips with the findings that time I believe that time is a spiral and that past, present, future is all happening together. Opening lines.

For the rest, science tells

us that nothing ever dies,

but only changes.

But time itself does not pass,

but curves along us.

And the past and the future are

together on our side forever.

In that movie Jennie is somehow able to cross timelines to meet with our artist. And she operates on a different time scale as we see her grow from a little child to a young woman in a span of a few months. She wanted to experience love and had somehow made it to the present to achieve that objective. That was the concept in Jennie.

In Lekin, Reva's sister and guru is still alive and in the ending scenes when Vinod Khanna goes to visit them, the guru calls him by another name as if recognizing him. And it is implied throughout the film that Reva wasnt able to cross the desert on her own. Afraid to cross over to wherever it is souls go after death and unable to live as her gross body had given way, probably trapped somewhere under the sands, she wandered around in this world and yet not of this world.

And Vinod Khanna was the reincarnation of the man who was supposed to help her cross the desert (the name guruji uses to address him).

And in the end Reva is only able to leave after Vinod Khanna takes her to that desert place again and vows to take her to her destination this time.

Only after that Reva is finally able to cross over. And in the end in the hospital, her elder sister had mentioned how Reva had appeared to her and how much older she had looked. I guess the idea was that now Reva had traveled far into the future and was perhaps now travelling back to commune therefore had aged more than her elder sister. Or the director did it just to add more mystique to the story or most likely, a combination of both.

But either way, you cant deny that the reincarnation concept is there in the movie. There is another indication of this in the scene where Vinod Khanna meets up with his ex gf's professor uncle. They talk about souls and reincarnation.

Gulzar could've chosen to talk about time as a spiral like in Jennie and yet he chose this. Its a reincarnation movie juxtaposed with time travel.