Gulzar the veteran lyricist, poet and writer has had a great career spanning many decades. He has composed different kinds of songs and every genre of them has touched the soul of audiences. However, Gulzar scored a surprise when he came up with the flirtatious lyrics to the song Kajra Re from the film Bunty aur Babli which starred Aishwarya Rai, Amitabh Bachchan and Abhishek Bachchan.
Not many know from where Gulzar managed to get the idea for such lyrics. In an interview he opened up on the same. A report on hindustantimes.com shared Gulzar’s comment and we take reference from that story for our write up here.
Speaking about the lyrics of the song, Gulzar had told Hindustan Times in 2006, “Serious poetry would have been out of place here. The song is inspired primarily by the lines that one sees written on trucks speeding up and down the highways in north India. Remember that the female protagonist is from a Punjabi family. She throws around a smattering of English because her ambition is to be a beauty pageant contestant. The boy, too, is a small town guy in a hurry to get ahead in life.”
Well, did you know of this fact?
