Toast to Dilip

DILIP Kumar and Saira Bano received not just the customary Eid mubarak phone calls but also an avalancle of telephone calls, e-mails, greeting cards congratulating the thespian on the huge success of the colourised version of Mughal-e-Azam. Not an inch of the spacious foyer of the bungalow, interior designed by Saira’s mother Naseem Banu, was unadorned by flowers that had been sent by the fans of the actor and his wife.

Gulzar’s guru

IT might seem unbelievable but even Gulzar has a guru. And the maestro was in Pakistan recently to meet the ailing teacher, Ahmed Nadeem Qazmi. It seems that when Gulzar expressed the desire to meet the elderly and unwell gentleman, the Pakistani embassy issued him a visa on just a day’s notice. The poet was felicitated by members of the Pakistan film industry at a dinner hosted in his honour and, on this occasion, he agreed to consider a proposal made by Pakistani filmmaker, Khalid Rana, to make a teleplay. One more point for cross-border amity.

— MF

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