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Actually … I Met Them (Digitally Signed Copy)

Actually … I Met Them (Digitally Signed Copy)

A Memoir by Gulzar | Penguin, Non-fiction, Auto-Biographies

Gulzar
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Personal. Intimate. Deeply moving.
An absolutely unputdownable memoir.

Do memories ever fade away? They never ‘dry up’, says Gulzar Saab, ‘They keep floating somewhere between the conscious and the subconscious mind. It’s a great feeling to swim there sometime. Pick up a few bubbly moments and cherish them again.’

From Bimal Roy to Satyajit Ray, R.D. Burman, Kishore Kumar, Ritwik Ghatak, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Mahasweta Devi and Samaresh Basu, among others, in this fascinating book, Gulzar Saab goes down memory lane to bring to light his relationship with the doyens of cinema, music and literature, who he had known and worked with over a long period of time. In his words, ‘It seems like a dream when I revisit my memories of such great gurus and colleagues, and I feel overwhelmed that I have really interacted with them. I have to pinch myself on realizing that actually . . . I met them.’

Chatty, anecdotal and deeply personal, this book of memories will chronicle Gulzar Saab’s life and career through different eras of Indian cinema as he successfully transcended commercial and critical arts. Studded with rare photographs, Actually .. I Met Them will be a treat for his huge and devoted fan base.

An auto biography by Gulzar Saab.

Imprint: India Hamish Hamilton

Published: Oct/2021

ISBN: 9780670096077

Length : 176 Pages

MRP : ₹499.00

Actually … I Met Them (Digitally Signed Copy)

A Memoir by Gulzar | Penguin, Non-fiction, Auto-Biographies

Gulzar

Personal. Intimate. Deeply moving.
An absolutely unputdownable memoir.

Do memories ever fade away? They never ‘dry up’, says Gulzar Saab, ‘They keep floating somewhere between the conscious and the subconscious mind. It’s a great feeling to swim there sometime. Pick up a few bubbly moments and cherish them again.’

From Bimal Roy to Satyajit Ray, R.D. Burman, Kishore Kumar, Ritwik Ghatak, Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Pandit Ravi Shankar, Pandit Bhimsen Joshi, Mahasweta Devi and Samaresh Basu, among others, in this fascinating book, Gulzar Saab goes down memory lane to bring to light his relationship with the doyens of cinema, music and literature, who he had known and worked with over a long period of time. In his words, ‘It seems like a dream when I revisit my memories of such great gurus and colleagues, and I feel overwhelmed that I have really interacted with them. I have to pinch myself on realizing that actually . . . I met them.’

Chatty, anecdotal and deeply personal, this book of memories will chronicle Gulzar Saab’s life and career through different eras of Indian cinema as he successfully transcended commercial and critical arts. Studded with rare photographs, Actually .. I Met Them will be a treat for his huge and devoted fan base.

An auto biography by Gulzar Saab.

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Gulzar

Gulzar, one of India's great towering poets, is also an acclaimed screenwriter, film director and lyricist. He has penned verses for songs in Indian films for several decades and has won awards such as the Academy Award, Grammy Award, Sahitya Akademi Award, Dadasaheb Phalke Award, numerous National Film Awards, and the Padma Bhushan, among others. He lives and works in Mumbai.

About the Translator
Neha R. Krishna is a poet and translator from Mumbai. She is the author of No Urgency to Be Home, a collection of Haiku and Tanka. Neha's poems have been featured in Under the Basho, Presence, Frogpond, Haiku Master, Failed Haiku and elsewhere.

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