Oscar award for Original Song for Slumdog Millionaire “Jai Ho” was infact shared between AR Rahman and Sampooran Singh Gulzar.
After 26 years, Gulzar is once again teaming up with Ilayaraja for Shah Ruk Khan’s movie directed by Ajay Varma. The Lyricist Gulzar and Music Maestro Ilayaraja have worked together in 1983 for Balu Mahendra’s movie Sadma.
Gulzar says the music maestro’s ability to create “perfect harmony” is still intact. Ilayaraja is one of his kinds. I wish he was heard more often in Hindi cinema.”
SRK is being directed by Ajay Varma, a descendant of the legendary painter Raja Ravi Varma. “It’s interesting that Ajay Varma has made a film at just about the same time a film on the life of Raja Ravi Varma by Ketan Mehta is ready for release,” said Gulzar.
The poet is not too fond of the title though.”The film is at the moment called SRK. Hopefully, it will change. What the film most certainly changes is the idiom of expression for film music. I feel Shaad Ali’s ‘Jhoom Barabar Jhoom’ and Anurag Kashyap’s ‘No Smoking’ gave me a chance to experiment with words in a way that film music generally doesn’t. Now I feel the same way about my poetry in ‘SRK’.”
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