Nonika Singh
Karoge yaad toh har baat yaad aayegi. The famous song from the film Bazaar may not have been written by Sagar Sarhadi, famed writer and director of this critically acclaimed and commercially successful film. But as he breathed his last on Monday, there is much that he shall be remembered for.
Much before he was to wield the directorial baton in 1982, his writing prowess had caught the imagination of cinephiles. Beginning his career in cinema in 1970, he also wrote dialogues for Basu Bhattacharya's Anubhav. However, it was his association with Yash Chopra that proved to be the most fruitful. Iconic film Kabhi Kabhie not only firmed up his position as a successful screenplay writer, but also paved way for many more love sagas, including Chandni and Silsila. Master of romance, he remained and died a bachelor.
Born as Ganga Sagar Talwar in Baffa near Abbottabad, now in Pakistan, he later changed his name as a mark of love for the place he belonged to. Unsurprisingly, his heartrending film Bazaar struck a chord as much among viewers in Pakistan as in India. The trigger for the film which poignantly portrayed the story of a Muslim girl being sold off to a man in the Gulf came from a newspaper report about bride trade. A firm believer of communism, the blockbusters for which he wrote may not have brought out the Marxist in him. But as a short-story writer and playwright, his plays brimmed with the angst he felt. In 2000, he wrote dialogues for Hrithik Roshan's Kaho Naa Pyaar Hai. Many a superstar film such as Shah Rukh Khan-starrer Deewana benefited from his writing acumen.
from The Tribune https://ift.tt/319f98g
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