Amol Palekar”* a Happy wala Birthday.
Spouses
Chitra Palekar - (m. 1969; div. 2001)
Sandhya Gokhale - (m. 2001)
Parents:
Kamalakar Palekar (father)
Suhasini Palekar (mother)
Palekar studied fine arts at the Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai.
He commenced his artistic career as a painter. As a painter, he had seven one-man exhibitions and participated in many group shows.
He has been active in the avant garde theatre in India in Marathi and Hindi theatre as an actor, director and producer since 1967.
Palekar began in Marathi experimental theatre with Satyadev Dubey, and later started his own group, Aniket, in 1972.
In 1974 he was cast as an actor by Basu Chatterjee in Rajnigandha, and in the surprise low-budget hit, Chhoti Si Baat.
Hrishikesh Mukherjee also directed him in films such as Gol Maal and Naram Garam.
He won the Filmfare Best Actor Award for Gol Maal.
He showed his capabilities as a director with movies such as Thodasa Roomani Ho Jaayen and Paheli.
Thodasa Roomani Ho Jaayen has become a part of management courses and study pertaining to human behaviour.
Today’s song is from Bhimsain’s produced & directed film *”Gharaonda”* screenplay and narrated by Gulzar.
The film starred Amol Palekar & Zarina Wahab. They were supported by Shreeram Lagoo, Dina Pathak, T P Jain, Sudha Chopra and Jalal Agha.
The song for today “ek akela is sheher mein”, sung by Bhupinder and picturised on Amol Palekar, is a song signifying loneliness and desolation for a person in Bombay who feels he has lost his all. Earlier in the film, Amol and Zarina sing a happy song, when they have dreams to get married and live happily together. That song is “do deewane sheher mein”. Now, when their dreams are shattered and Amol is left alone, all he can do is reflect on what his life has become.
Note again here how Gulzar personifies inanimate objects. “In umr se lambi sadkon ko, manzil pe pahunchte dekha nahin”. As if to say the roads keep going on and on..but actually go nowhere. Desolation, when described like this, takes on a different poignancy altogether. And as usual, this song is full of metaphors…dil khaali bartan hai, raat jaise andhaa kuaan. You need a really vivid imagination for this sort of poetry – and Gulzar saab is an absolute master at this.
So enjoy this beautiful song from Gharaonda.
*"Ek Akela Is Shahar Mein"* lyrics by Gulzar, composed by Jaidev and sung by Bhupinder Singh 🎤🎶🎵🎧
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