Gulzar is coming to town

Gulzar, the multifaceted genius – poet, lyricist, film maker, and elocutionist – is coming to town. Gulzar will be releasing two of his books besides gracing an exhibition on him on August 26.

Gulzar was introduced to the Bengali literature when he first met Tagore through his book. Now it's time to release two of his books in Bengali. One of the books is Pantabhate which is basically revolving around his remembrance of some great Bengali personalities that he met during his creative journey like Satyajit Ray, Kishore Kumar, Suchitra Sen, Uttam Kumar, Mahashweta Devi and so on.

The other book is Pluto, a book of his poetry translated in Bengali. Gulzar said, "There were many small poems, which never got a room in any of my earlier books, finally they found expression with Pluto." Both the books are being published by Dey's Publishing and will be launched by eminent poet Shankha Ghosh and noted filmmaker Sandip Ray. This will be followed by an adda session 'Guftgu with Gulzar' with Shantanu Moitra, Srijato in attendance. The launch will be held on August 26, at Nandan I.

Subhamkar Dey of Dey's Publishing told Millennium Post, "Pluto is his latest poetry book and we are providing the Bengali translation as well as the Urdu version in Bengali. The second book is a rare gem with the poet's recollection of noted Bengali personalities like Bimal Ray, Tarun Mazumdar, Basu Chatterjee, Hemanta Mukhopadhyay, Bhimsen Joshi, Samaresh Basu and so on. Also he stayed at Hemanta's place in Kolkata for 9 months." Each book is priced at Rs 199 but if you book by August 24, you get a free booklet on Gulzar and you get both the books for Rs 300.

What's more? A rare exhibition on Gulzar will be held for the first time in city between August 26 and August 27 at Nandan IV. It will feature many rare documents like film posters, booklets, record covers, photographs, book covers on the poet and so on.