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.

2022年8月20日 · On August 18, he celebrated his 88th birthday by visiting his birthplace which is a town named Dina that lies in the Jhelum district of Punjab in Pakistan. It is one of the oldest towns in the entire region and is famous as a land that has produced valiant soldiers.

2013年5月1日 · Gulzar sahib should have stayed back in Pakistan and not run away. People like these need to provide the much needed pluralism of ideas that they are capable of.

3 天之前 · “Becoming a writer was my first choice before I joined films as the assistant of Bimal da, my guru. However, in those days, it was tough to make a living as a writer,” says Gulzar. Born Sampooran Singh Kalra in a Sikh family at Dina, Jhelum district in present-day Pakistan, his dream of becoming a writer took time to realise.

Gulzar Mahal is a palace in the city of Bahawalpur, Pakistan. [1] The palace has been leased by the armed forces since 1966, [2] [3] and is currently not open to the general public. [4]

2024年8月28日 · Many in Pakistan were introduced to his creative endeavours through the quarterly Urdu journal Funoon since long. And they came to know that the flow of his creative innocence reveals the ability to carve a unique album in relation to the embodiment and form-shaping of the agonising crises of life.

2024年8月21日 · Many in Pakistan were introduced to his creative endeavours through the quarterly Urdu journal Funoon since long. And they came to know that the flow of his creative innocence reveals the ability...

2023年8月18日 · Born in a part of undivided Punjab that is now part of Pakistan, Gulzar came to Mumbai when the turbulence of Partition uprooted his family and disrupted his studies. Alongside finding a foothold in the film industry, Gulzar continued to write poetry in …

Gulzar was born as ‘Sampooran Singh Kalra’ on Saturday, 18 August 1934 (age 85 years; as in 2019) in the Dina City of the Jhelum District in Punjab, British India (now Pakistan). His zodiac sign is Leo.

Gulzar was born Sampooran Singh at Deena in Pakistan in the year 1934. After partition in 1947, he came to Delhi. Gulzar started his career as an assistant to celebrated director Bimal Roy and Hrishikesh Mukherjee.