Rakhe gulzar biography sample paper
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Second to last one! And an important one. Another super successful director, and super good and all of that.
I was shocked to realize I didn’t know about Meghna Gulzar before Raazi. I knew about Talwar, her previous critically acclaimed modest little film, but I didn’t know her name attached to it. What shocked me wasn’t that a talented female director didn’t get opportunities and acclaim, but that I did not know Gulzar and Raakhee’s daughter was a working director in the industry today.
Gulzar is a poet and a lyricist, and occasional director and scriptwriter. He started in the industry way back in the late 50s, was friends with people like Meena Kumari and Dilip Kumar. And in the 70s, he marred Raakhee, a beautiful talented actress. They had Meghna together and then separated. Raakhee kept working, moving from heroine roles to mother roles. And Gulzar kept working too, writing scripts and songs. They were both involved
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The life and times of Rakhee Gulzar
Bengali theatre and film actor Chaiti Ghoshal met Rakhee Gulzar in the early ’80s, when she was just a star-struck teenager. Chaiti was at that time making her debut in Aparna Sen’s path-breaking woman-centric film Parama (1984). Rakhee played a 40-something homemaker who was ostracised by her husband and other family members after her liaison with a photographer was revealed. Chaiti played Rakhee’s daughter who empathised with her predicament at the end of the film. “The first thing that struck me about Rakheedi, as she is fondly known in Kolkata, was her ethereal beauty — we had just seen a fraction of her real beauty on screen all these years,” recalls Chaiti.
A still from the movie, Parama
Rakhee was still at the peak of her career when she was shooting Parama. Her powerful and nuanced performances in films such as Barsat Ki Ek Raat (1981) and Bemisal (1982) alongside Amitabh Bachchan and Basera (1981)
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Life sans cheap thrills
There fryst vatten a story behind Because He Is…, a book written bygd Meghna Gulzar on the life and times of her illustrious father, poet-filmmaker Gulzar. The completed manuscript was duly handed over to a leading publisher who had commissioned the book. The latter, however, sat on the manuscript for weeks and then sought major alterations. He found parts of Meghna's account too tame. What he was obviously looking for was "explosive" inre information on Gulzar's anställda life, but both father and daughter were klar in their minds about where the line was to be drawn. Because He Is…, released a month ago, was finally published bygd Rupa & Co in the struktur in which it was originally written.
The above story is certainly not without precedent. Publishers have often invested in biographies in the hope of giving readers "value for money". That raises a betydelsefull question: must a biography of a celebrity be crammed with salacious details for it to be readab