Gulzar - a short tribute to a living muse...
if you believe that words can take you into flights of creative fantasy; if you believe that words have the power to silence the mind and push it ever so gently over the precipice of chaos, into the gentle folds of existential introspection; if you believe that words can translate the most complex emotions into stunningly simple homilies; if you believe that words are timeless, and so is the poe t whose passionate stirrings of the heart and mind can coagulate into blank verses that will reverberate in the human breast as long as Man lives in happiness, sorrow , pain , suffering and all the other myriad prismatic reflections that is our universal heritage - then you will agree with me the Gulzar , the poet Laureate, the bard, the philosopher, the enchanting muse deserves the Dada Saheb Phalke award more than anyone else. For forty long years this mesmerizingly simple, stately poet has been adorning the film world with his brilliance. Each song, Each poem carves for itself a niche, a sp