Gulzar was Born in Deena(Now in Pakistan) on 18th August, 1936. After partition he came to Delhi. Gulzar - aka Sampooran Singh began his film career as an assistant to Bimal Roy. He started writing songs for films with bimal da's Bandini. Mora Gora Ang Layee Le is supposed to be his first song. Although His first film to be released was Kabuli Wala, which also had some all time greats like E mere pyare watan and Ganga aaye kahan se. After getting recognition as a sensitive lyricist, he started writing scripts and stories for films. Then with Mere Apne in 1971, He turned Director. Since then he has given us lots of beautiful, serious and funny moments through his movies. He has written stories for around 60 films and directed 17 movies, each one a masterpiece.

During 1987-1996 he went away from the seen as he did only 7 films as lyricist and 2 as director in the span of 10 years. After the success of Maachis, He is now again in the picture. His latest venture HU TU TU received critical acclaim. Recently He has won the best lyricist Filmfare award for Dil-Se. Long live Gulzar.