Gulzar Lyricist Which songs did Gulzar write ? "Mora Gora Ang Layle",
Who was the singer of this song ?
Who was the singer of Mora Gora Ang Layle?
It was during his interactions in the PWA Sunday meetings that Shailendra and Bimal Roy encouraged him to join films. Gulzar began his career under film directors Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. His book Ravi Paar has a narrative of Bimal Roy and the agony of creation. He started his career as a songwriter with the music director Sachin Dev Burman for the movie Bandini (1963). In films, he found an environment associated with literature in the group he worked with, including Bimal Roy, most of whose films were based on literary works. Shailendra, who has penned the rest of the songs in the movie requested Gulzar to write the song "Mora Gora Ang Layle", sung by Lata Mangeshkar. Directed and produced by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, the 1968 film Aashirwad had dialogues and lyrics written by Gulzar. Song lyrics and poems written by Gulzar gave the poetic attribute and the "much-needed additional dimension" to Ashok Kumar's role in the film. Ashok Kumar received the Best Actor at the Filmfare and at the National Film Awards for this role. Gulzar's lyrics, however, did not gain much attention until 1969's Khamoshi, where his song "Humne Dekhi Hai Un Aankhon Ki Mehekti Khushboo" (lit., "I have seen the fragrance of those eyes") became popular. Ganesh Anantharaman in his book Bollywood Melodies describes Gulzar's lyrics, with the purposeful mixing of the senses, to be "daringly defiant". For the 1971 film Guddi, he penned two songs, of which "Humko Man Ki Shakti Dena" was a prayer which is still sung in many schools in India. As a lyricist, Gulzar had a close association with the music director Rahul Dev Burman. He has also worked with Sachin Dev Burman, Shankar Jaikishan, Hemant Kumar, Laxmikant-Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, Rajesh Roshan, and Anu Malik. Gulzar worked with Salil Chowdhury in Anand (1971) and Mere Apne (1971); Madan Mohan in Mausam (1975), and more recently with Vishal Bhardwaj in Maachis (1996), Omkara (2006) and Kaminey (2009); A. R. Rahman in Dil Se.. (1998), Guru (2007), Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and Raavan (2010) and Shankar-Ehsaan-Loy in Bunty Aur Babli (2005). Gulzar took inspiration from Amir Khusrow's "Ay Sarbathe Aashiqui" to pen "Ay Hairathe Aashiqui" for Mani Ratnam's 2007 Hindi film Guru, which had music composed by A. R. Rahman. Another Ratnam-Rahman hit, "Chaiyya Chaiyya" from Dil Se.. also had lyrics written by Gulzar, based on the Sufi folk song "Thaiyya Thaiyya", with lyrics by poet Bulleh Shah. For another collaboration with Rahman for Danny Boyle's 2007 Hollywood film Slumdog Millionaire, Rahman and Gulzar won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Jai Ho" at the 81st Academy Awards. The song received international acclaim and won him a Grammy Award (shared with Rahman) in the category of Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. He also wrote a song for the Pakistani Drama Shehryar Shehzadi, and this song Teri Raza, has been sung by Rekha Bhardwaj and was composed by Vishal Bhardwaj. CANNOTANSWER
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Sampooran Singh Kalra (born 18 August 1934), known professionally as Gulzar or Gulzar Saab, is an Indian poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and film director known for his works in Hindi cinema. 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 has won 5 Indian National Film Awards; including 2 Best Lyrics, one Best Screenplay, one Second Best Feature Film (director), and one Best Popular Film (director); 22 Filmfare Awards; one Academy Award; and one Grammy Award. He was awarded the Sahitya Akademi Award - Hindi in 2002, the Padma Bhushan in 2004, the third-highest civilian award in India, and the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2013, the highest award in Indian cinema. In April 2013, Gulzar was appointed as the Chancellor of the Assam University.

Early life 
Gulzar was born in a Sikh family as Sampooran Singh Kalra, to Makhan Singh Kalra and Sujan Kaur, in Dina, Jhelum District, British India (present-day Pakistan). In school, he had read translations of the works of Tagore which he recounted as one of his life's many turning points. Due to the partition, his family split and he had to stop his studies and come to Mumbai (then called Bombay) to support his family. Sampooran took up many small jobs in Mumbai to eke out a living,  including one at a garage at Vichare motors on Bellasis road (Mumbai). There he used to touch up accident-damaged cars by mixing shades of paint, in his own words "I had a knack for colours". His father rebuked him for being a writer initially. He took the pen name Gulzar Deenvi and later simply Gulzar. In an interview with Rajyasabha TV, he recounted enjoying his work as a painter as it allowed him a lot of time to simultaneously read, write, attend college and be involved with the PWA (Progressive Writers Association).

Career

Lyricist 
It was during his interactions in the PWA Sunday meetings that Shailendra and Bimal Roy encouraged him to join films. Gulzar began his career under film directors Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee. His book Ravi Paar has a narrative of Bimal Roy and the agony of creation. He started his career as a songwriter with the music director Sachin Dev Burman for the movie Bandini (1963). In films, he found an environment associated with literature in the group he worked with, including Bimal Roy, most of whose films were based on literary works. Shailendra, who has penned the rest of the songs in the movie requested Gulzar to write the song "Mora Gora Ang Layle", sung by Lata Mangeshkar.

Directed and produced by Hrishikesh Mukherjee, the 1968 film Aashirwad had dialogues and lyrics written by Gulzar. Song lyrics and poems written by Gulzar gave the poetic attribute and the "much-needed additional dimension" to Ashok Kumar's role in the film. Ashok Kumar received the Best Actor at the Filmfare and at the National Film Awards for this role. Gulzar's lyrics, however, did not gain much attention until 1969's Khamoshi, where his song "Humne Dekhi Hai Un Aankhon Ki Mehekti Khushboo" (lit., "I have seen the fragrance of those eyes") became popular. Ganesh Anantharaman in his book Bollywood Melodies describes Gulzar's lyrics, with the purposeful mixing of the senses, to be "daringly defiant". For the 1971 film Guddi, he penned two songs, of which "Humko Man Ki Shakti Dena" was a prayer which is still sung in many schools in India.

As a lyricist, Gulzar had a close association with the music director Rahul Dev Burman. He has also worked with Sachin Dev Burman, Shankar Jaikishan, Hemant Kumar, Laxmikant–Pyarelal, Madan Mohan, Rajesh Roshan, and Anu Malik. Gulzar worked with Salil Chowdhury in Anand (1971) and Mere Apne (1971); Madan Mohan in Mausam (1975), and more recently with Vishal Bhardwaj in Maachis (1996), Omkara (2006) and Kaminey (2009); A. R. Rahman in Dil Se.. (1998), Guru (2007), Slumdog Millionaire (2008) and Raavan (2010) and Shankar–Ehsaan–Loy in Bunty Aur Babli (2005). Gulzar took inspiration from Amir Khusrow's "Ay Sarbathe Aashiqui" to pen "Ay Hairathe Aashiqui" for Mani Ratnam's 2007 Hindi film Guru, which had music composed by A. R. Rahman. Another Ratnam-Rahman hit, "Chaiyya Chaiyya" from Dil Se.. also had lyrics written by Gulzar, based on the Sufi folk song "Thaiyya Thaiyya", with lyrics by poet Bulleh Shah. For another collaboration with Rahman for Danny Boyle's 2007 Hollywood film Slumdog Millionaire, Rahman and Gulzar won the Academy Award for Best Original Song for "Jai Ho" at the 81st Academy Awards. The song received international acclaim and won him a Grammy Award (shared with Rahman) in the category of Grammy Award for Best Song Written for a Motion Picture, Television or Other Visual Media. He also wrote a song for the Pakistani Drama Shehryar Shehzadi, and this song Teri Raza, has been sung by Rekha Bhardwaj and was composed by Vishal Bhardwaj.

Direction 
After writing dialogues and screenplay for films such as Aashirwad, Anand and Khamoshi, Gulzar directed his first film Mere Apne (1971). The film was a remake of Tapan Sinha's Bengali film Apanjan (1969). Meena Kumari played the lead role of Anandi Devi, an old widow caught in between the local fights of unemployed and tormented youngsters. Anandi Devi's death in one of the fights makes them realise the futility of violence. The film was rated "Above Average" at the box office. He then directed Parichay and Koshish. Parichay was based on a Bengali novel, Rangeen Uttarain by Raj Kumar Maitra and inspired from the Hollywood film The Sound of Music. He wrote the story of Koshish based on the struggle faced by a deaf-dumb couple wherein Sanjeev Kumar won National Film Award for Best Actor. In 1973, he directed Achanak, inspired by the 1958 murder case KM Nanavati v State of Maharashtra, and the story writer Khwaja Ahmad Abbas earned a Filmfare nomination for Best Story. Later he directed Aandhi, based on the Hindi novel "Kaali Aandhi" by Kamleshwar. Along with various wins and nominations, the film also won Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie. Although the film was believed to be based on the life of former Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, the film was based on life of Tarkeshwari Sinha. In the 1975's emergency, the film was banned from theatres. His next film  Khushboo was based on Sharat Chandra Chattopadhyay's Pandit Mashay. His Mausam, which won the National Award for 2nd Best Feature Film, Filmfare Best Movie and Filmfare Best Director awards, along with other six Filmfare nominations, was loosely based on the story "Weather", from the novel, The Judas Tree, by A.J. Cronin. His 1982 film Angoor was based on Shakespeare's play The Comedy of Errors.

His films told stories of human relationships entangled in social issues. Libaas was a story of an extra-marital affair of an urban couple. Due to its objectionable subject, the film never got released in India. Mausam pictured a story of a father who tries to improve the life of his prostitute-daughter. In Maachis, a young Punjabi boy engages in terrorism to fight a bad situation only to realise its temporary nature. Hu Tu Tu dealt with corruption in India and how a man decides to fight it.

Gulzar uses "flashback" in the narration of his stories very effectively (Aandhi, Mausam, Ijaazat, Machis, Hu Tu Tu). He also has mutual partnerships with various actors and other crew. The Gulzar – Sanjeev Kumar partnership resulted in few fine films (Koshish, Aandhi, Mausam, Angoor, Namkeen) which represent Sanjeev Kumar's finest work as an actor. Actors like Jeetendra (Parichay, Khushboo, Kinara), Vinod Khanna (Achanak, Meera, Lekin) and Hema Malini (Khushboo, Kinara, Meera) worked with Gulzar to gain respectability as artists and delivered some of their best and most introspective work in films. R D Burman composed songs for almost all the movies directed by him in the 1970s and the 1980s (Parichay, Khushboo, Aandhi, Angoor, Ijaazat, Libaas). Many of their popular songs were sung by Kishore Kumar, Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle. These include "Musafir Hoon Yaron" (Parichay), "Tere Bina Zindagi Se Koi" (Aandhi), and "Mera Kuch Samaan" (Ijaazat).

In 1988, Gulzar directed an eponymous television serial Mirza Ghalib, starring Naseeruddin Shah and broadcast on Doordarshan. Later he also directed Tahreer Munshi Premchand Ki about the novels of Premchand.

Poetry 
Gulzar primarily writes in Urdu and Punjabi; besides several other languages such as Braj Bhasha, Khariboli, Haryanvi and Marwari. His poetry is in the Triveni type of stanza. His poems are published in three compilations; Chand Pukhraaj Ka, Raat Pashminey Ki and Pandrah Paanch Pachattar. His short stories are published in Raavi-paar (also known as Dustkhat in Pakistan) and Dhuan (smoke).

For the peace campaign Aman ki Asha, jointly started by India's and Pakistan's leading media houses, Gulzar wrote the anthem "Nazar Main Rehte Ho", which was recorded by Shankar Mahadevan and Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. Gulzar has written ghazals for Ghazal Maestro Jagjit Singh's albums "Marasim" (1999) and "Koi Baat Chale" (2006).

Other contributions 
Gulzar has written lyrics and dialogues for several Doordarshan TV series including Jungle Book, Alice in Wonderland, Hello Zindagi, Guchche and Potli Baba Ki with Vishal Bhardwaj. He has more recently written and narrated for the children's audiobook series Karadi Tales.
Gulzar is also associated with Aarushi, Eklavya foundation an NGO based in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh working in the field of education. He has written stories and poetry for the magazine Chakmak. Gulzar has also worked in Bollywood movies like Anand , Mere Apne , Omkara and many more.

Academic 
In April 2013, Gulzar was appointed as the Chancellor of the Assam University.

Personal life 
Gulzar is married to actress Raakhee. The couple has a daughter, Meghna Gulzar. Meghna Gulzar grew up with her mother and father and, after completing her graduation in filmmaking from New York University, went on to become a director of films such as Filhaal, Just Married, Dus Kahaniyaan, Talvar, Raazi, and Chhapaak (for which Gulzar wrote the lyrics) and authored the biography of her father Gulzar, in 2004.

Awards and nominations 

As on 2019, Gulzar has won a total of 36 awards and honours, including 5 National Film Awards, 22 Filmfare Awards, Rashtriya Kishore Kumar Samman from the Government of Madhya Pradesh for 1999-2000, 1 Academy Award for Best Original Song (2008), 1 Grammy Award (2010), 2002 Sahitya Akademi Award for Urdu, Padma Bhushan (2004), and 2013 Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

Works 

 Bibliography 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 Audiobooks 
 
 

 English novel 
Two is Gulzar's debut novel released in English. It examines the status of refugees after partition. Two was originally written in Urdu.

 Comics
Gulzar served as the Script Consultant for the Supremo comic book series by Pammi Bakshi.

 Theatre
Chakkar Chalaaye Ghanchakkar

Biographies

Notes

See also
List of Indian winners and nominees of the Academy Awards
List of Indian poets
List of Indian writers

References

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is a Japanese song. The song was composed by Komei Sone. The song was originally noted down in a juvenile classification home.

The lyric of the song was re-written by various lyricists. Mari Sono's cover version of this song was released in 1966. However, the song is best known for being sung by enka singer Keiko Fuji. The song was included in her album Shinjuku no Onna/ 'Enka no Hoshi' Fuji Keiko no Subete (lit. "Woman in Shinjuku/ 'Star of Enka' All of Keiko Fuji") released on March 5, 1970. The album topped Japanese Oricon charts for 20 consecutive weeks. Her version of this song was named . Her version of this song was released as a single on April 25, 1970. The single topped Oricon charts for 10 consecutive weeks.

Japanese folk rock singer Kan Mikami also released his version of this song with his new lyrics in 1972. However, his version was banned from being used on the air.

References

1970 singles
Oricon Weekly number-one singles
Japanese-language songs
1970 songs Esta Boca es Mía (literally translated, This mouth Is mine, more accurate meaning: This Is What I Stand For) is the ninth studio album of the Spanish singer-songwriter Joaquín Sabina released in 1994, two years after the release of his previous album Física y química. This album didn't reach the same level of popularity and commercial success of his previous release, however, it reached good sales and also gave some hit songs and favorable reviews.

Background 
In the mid 1990s, Sabina was in his personal and professional maturity and found himself in the challenge of producing an album that could be at the same level or better than Física y química. For that, as always, the performer not only teamed up with his fellow collaborators, Pancho Varona and Antonio García de Diego, who would arrange the most of the songs, but also, started counting with the help of a new collaborator, Olga Román, a jazz singer who had previous experience in composing and performing jazz songs live and who would turn into Sabina's back vocal since then, till 2009, when she restarted her solo music career.

As in the rest of his albums, Joaquín Sabina found the inspiration for the tracks in his personal experiences, such as his paternity, his recent divorce form his former wife Isabel Oliart, his life in Madrid and also his frequent trips to Latin America.

Production 
In order to produce the album, the singer felt the need of doing something different from his previous musical experiences and decided to create something more eclectic. In fact, Esta boca es mía is known for its variety of styles and influences and for the collaboration of various important music personalities such as Rosendo Mercado and the prominent Cuban singer Pablo Milanes. Some songs tend to have an evident rock 'n roll flavour while others have a much more Latin influence with styles such as salsa and bolero.

Four singles were released from this release; the first one and maybe the most popular song of this album is "Por el Bulevar de los sueños rotos" (By the boulevard of broken dreams), a song that would turn into another of the most representative songs of Joaquín Sabina. As in "Y nos dieron las diez", the most famous track from the previous album, in this song it's shown a really noticeable Mexican spirit, in fact, the performer acknowledged that the song was an homage to the widely recognised singer Chavela Vargas, of whom Sabina considers a follower. This song is notable for its references to Mexican artists such as Frida Kalho and Diego Rivera and to other people and elements of the Mexican cultural imagery. The Promotional Video for this single, directed by Juanma Bajo Ulloa, was also set in a typical Mexican atmosphere.

Another hit from this album was "Esta noche contigo" (Tonight with you), which was a love song that opened the album but that was released as the second single. This song was also warmly received, but as the following singles, it would fail to reach the popularity of "En el bulevar de los sueños rotos".

The following single is a hard rock song called "El blues de lo que pasa en mi escalera", (The blues of what happens in the stairs of my apartment building). A peculiar song in which the singer tells past and present stories about people he knew when he was a kid, and with whom he was still in contact. Sexual affairs, economic ruin and the undeserved rise to the top of some people at the expense of the protagonists, are the main themes of this song.

One of the following singles of this release is the flamenco flavoured song "Ruido" (Noise), which is a song that revolves around the chaotic and traumatic divorce of a couple that was filled with faith and ilussion in the start, but that was later prey of disappointments, broken promises, and convivence problems that end up leading to the unhappy ending. This song was solely arranged with a Spanish Guitar and with a Flamenco box.

The next and last single extracted from this album was "Ganas de..." (I feel like...), which was a country love song.

Another interesting song from this album was "La casa por la ventana" (Spending all what they have) performed as a duo with Pablo Milanes, a seemingly cheerful salsa arranged song that actually portrays the sad story of the immigrants from Asia, Latin America and North Africa who arrived to Spain in the mid 1990s. This song highlights the difficulties immigrants faced in a country where immigration was, till then, a completely new, and totally unknown phenomena.

Track listing

Reception 
This album failed to achieve the widespread popularity of Física y química. However, it also produced very well remembered songs both in Spain and in Latin America.

Versions of some songs 

 "Esta boca es mía", the title song and also the ending song from this album, was covered by the singer Olga Roman, whose version was included in the homenage album "Entre todas las mujeres", released in 2003, nine years later.
 Por el bulevar de los sueños rotos was covered by Lua Ríos, and also released as part of the tracklist of the same homage album.
 In 2020, the song "Ruido" was covered by the band Fito & Fitipaldis in a collaboration with the singer Coque Malla as part of the traclikst of the homenage album "Ni tan joven ni tan viejo".
 Also in 2020, the song "Ganas de" was covered by the electro-reggae band Macaco in a collaboration with the producer Carlos Sadness.

References

External links 

 Esta boca es mía info

Joaquín Sabina albums
1994 albums
Albums by Spanish artists
Albums by Spanish artists by genre