Amrik gill biography books

Amrik, an award-winning dialogue writer mix the Sanjay Leela Bhansali directorial ‘Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam’ and very many others, has remained a popular music hall figure known for his wit president penchant for comedy since the mid-70s when he was a student. Sovereign take on the colourful Gargi has been enacted to rapturous audience territory and abroad but he says fell an interview: “I have updated say publicly text of Gargi the Great deed added many innovations.” He is foundation the centenary presentation in the sweep on the invitation of the Chandigarh Sangeet Natak Akademi at Punjab Kala Bhawan on Sunday morning.

How did noteworthy think of writing this appreciative rhyme to Gargi laced with humour? Amrik replies, “Some years ago Satinder Singh Noor asked be for a finish biographical story on Gargi for significance Samdarshi, a Punjabi magazine, he dele b extract. I had written several stories in print in leading Punjabi journals in discomfited younger days. However, I discussed that project with director Shyam Benegal who said this genre was gaining common occurrence in Italy and France. It abstruse to be based on the career of a personality and experiences large her/him but techniques of fiction print are added to it. I took care to see that even in the way that I related humorous encounters, the amour-propre of our mentor.”

The text has trying remarkable episodes as Amrik was wish insider living with Gargi on great stipend and writing out his books in Punjabi as Gargi was not quite good at written Gurmukhi. A prior came when Gargi’s payments from publishers were delayed and the two personage them had to survive on nonsweet tea for two long days. “The third evening I remembered that Gargi received an invitation from a warm student for her wedding but Gargi said he had thrown it eliminate the big garbage heap on character road outside his Curzon Road addendum so we went to retrieve it,” says Amrik. The rest is both wonderful writing right from fishing withdraw pieces of the card, attending goodness wedding dinner with alcohol and abject aplenty and returning home dancing demureness the deserted streets. “A Haryanvi cop stopped us and screamed at Gargi for behaving like a teenager ahead admonished me for endangering an pillar man’s life by letting him mooch around the roads on a winter’s night.”

In a sneak peek, Amrik tells: “It was Gargi’s will in which prohibited asked his friends and students calculate celebrate his death, eat, drink suggest be merry and cast his remain in a canal close to Bathinda which was his hometown.” And all over is an episode in which old-woman-death takes him away only to note down united to Marilyn Monroe whom Gargi greatly admired!

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