Zero Line Par Gulzar

by Ashok Bhowmick

Revised and updated. Zero Line Par Gulzar is much more than just another book on Gulzar. The author, who has known Gulzar for over two decades now, looks at Gulzar's non-film writings from the perspective of an artist, a painter, and a critic. Through Gulzar's writings, the author paints a detailed portrait of a sensitive writer's literary life, who has largely been known for his popular work as a lyricist and film-maker. Partition, terrorism, nostalgia, love and longing ... these are some of the themes Gulzar is often associated with. This book probes his entire body of work for the writer's other great natural disasters, manmade chaos, treachery, politics, and survival amidst them all.

267 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 1, 2016

Reviews

[Sumana Ray · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good

[dunkdaft · Rating 4 out of 5]

It is always a treat reading him or about him. Gulzar saab is such a 'sukoon to your heart' always. Here, Ashok Bhowmick devotedly talks about his works, his style and analysing how he is, Gulzar.

The book is full of snippets from his works. Dialogues, poems, songs, stories, his life incidents - everything. Which makes you nostalgic every now and then and want to cherish those works which are being discussed. Add to this, an in-depth chapter on the decade of 70s, is very well written. How the golden period of cinema shone at those years.

At places, narrative feels repetitive though. Talk of Mere Apne takes a lot of space while new age Gulzar saab takes lesser amount of words. But in the end, it makes a satisfactory affair reading this.