Musafir Hoon Yaaron

Pragmatists and poets.

Those who shape the world. Those who refract it.

Rarely are these attributes visible in the same man. That’s why Gulzar sa’ab has always been unusual, even within the maverick industry he has made his professional home.

His work defies all attempts to bracket it.

He’s soulful and playful; masterful and innocent; risqué and refined.

His writing – both for cinema and outside it – has shaped our very language of love, of longing, of desire, of heartbreak. He is, in some ways, poet laureate of the Indian film industry, and in Musafir Hoon Yaaron, he took the stage in conversation with cultural polymath Pavan Varma on his life’s work.

Through lyrics and song; through readings from his newest book of poems, he articulated with customary refinement the complex understanding of human emotion that have made him such a cult figure in Indian cinema.

Watch the full session above.