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Gulzar’s poems now find Japanese expression |
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Wednesday, 13 June 2007 |
 Gulzar, the poet-extraordinaire, has just returned from a 12-day tour of Japan and says he recited his poems on Iraq and Afghanistan there that were specially translated into Japanese.
Sharing the experience, he said, "I hadn’t visited that side of the world. But I was keen. So I took off on a visit with some other members of the Sahitya Akademi. I addressed students in universities there. But the turning point was when I visited the museum in Hiroshima. The wounds of World War II are still so fresh. It depressed me a lot. I recited my poems on Iraq and Afghanistan. What happened in these unfortunate countries recently were splinters of Hiroshima."
His poems were translated in Japanese for the convenience of the audience. From Urdu to Japanese is quite a long journey. "But that isn’t the only unusual journey I’ve made," said Gulzar. "I’m also writing all the lyrics for a Pakistani film called Tere Liye directed by Farzan Rafiq." This would perhaps be the first instance of an Indian poet contributing the lyrics to an entire score of a Pakistani film.
Back home, Gulzar’s lyrics in director Shaad Ali’s Jhoom Barabar Jhoom are threatening to attain the same popularity as his wacky wordplay in Ali’s earlier film Bunty Aur Babli. Last year his Bidee song for Vishal Bharadwaj’s Omkara became a rage and bagged many popular awards for best lyrics. Before that he created magic with his award winning song Kajra re, which was again a chartbuster.
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