Having written poetries and film songs for more than half a century, Gulzar is now trying to keep pace with the Gen-X but can't change his old habit of writing on pen and paper.
"My thinking process starts with my pen. So without lagging behind others I use my own method of putting pen on paper," Gulzar told PTI when asked about if he has switched to writing on computers and tablets.
Showing his hand-written poetries in a notebook during a visit to Kolkata, the 80-year-old legendary lyricist-poet says, "I write in Urdu and everything is written by my hand. You people write on computers and I respect that".
It was long ago in the sixties when Gulzar, born as Sampooran Singh Kalra, started his career as a songwriter with a Hindi film. As decades passed his grip on the sensibilities of the new generation remained firm as he even switched on to writing Bollywood item numbers like 'Kajrare' and 'Beedi jalai le'.
"I am walking along with this generation and I have a rapport with this generation. I don't live in the past," says Gulzar whose 'Jai Ho' song in the Hollywood film 'Slumdog Millionaire' had brought him and A R Rahman an Oscar and Grammy.
Although he has never tried expressing his creative best on digital devices but is far from being a technologically challenged old man.
"For example, I know the post office work you do on computer. I attend and reply my emails. I do whatever I can. There is no denial to the existence of computers," he says.
