The
child
in
Gulzar
Saab's
heart
seems
to
be
asserting
itself
more
strongly
now
that
he
has
composed
two
back-to-back
seductive
chartbusters.
"I
guess
Kajra
re
and
Beedi
just
happened.
They
were
the
demands
of
the
hour.
But
a
lot
of
the
credit
for
Kajra
re
must
go
to
Aishwarya.
And
now
the
credit
for
putting
forward
my
Barso
re
song
in
Guru
must
again
to
Aishwarya.
She's
able
to
communicate
such
innocence
and
joy
in
the
rain."
Innocence
and
joy
will
be
the
predominant
emotions
for
Gulzar
Saab's
poetry
in
the
coming
year.
"I'm
doing
an
entire
album
of
limericks
for
children
with
Vinay
Sapru
and
Radhika
(the
duo
who
made
the
Salman-starrer
Lucky).
The
very
fact
that
they
understood
what
I
meant
by
children's
limerick
made
me
very
happy."
Gulzar
Saab
has
earlier
done
an
entire
album
of
music
for
children
with
composer
Vishal
Bharadwaj.
"The
number
Chaddi
pehen
ke
phool
khila
hai
became
very
popular.
That's
the
kind
of
limerick
for
children
which
I'll
be
doing
in
my
new
album
for
T
Series."
The
poet-filmmaker
intends
to
go
easy
in
2007.
"I
had
a
surfeit
of
lyrics
to
write
in
2005
and
2006.
I
need
to
slow
down.
I'm
concentrating
on
my
daughter
Meghna's
film
which
was
earlier
titled
Baat
Pakki.
Now
it's
Just
Married.
Besides
that
my
only
other
movie
assignment
in
2007
is
Mani
Ratnam's
Lajjo
which
takes
me
to
one
of
my
favourite
eras-India
just
before
the
Partition."
While
Mani
is
writing
the
screenplay,
Gulzar
Saab
will
be
working
on
designing
the
scenario
with
Mani,
and
of
course
the
lyrics.
"And
hopefully
I'll
finally
direct
a
film
in
the
the
coming
year," he
promises.