FILM DIRECTOR

Gulzar

1934 - Today

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Gulzar (born Sampooran Singh Kalra; 18 August 1934) is an Indian Urdu poet, lyricist, author, screenwriter, and film director known for his works in Hindi cinema. He is regarded as one of greatest Urdu poets of this era. He started his career with music director S.D. Burman as a lyricist in the 1963 film Bandini and worked with many music directors including R. D. Burman, Salil Chowdhury, Vishal Bhardwaj and A. R. Rahman. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gulzar has received more than 4,203,564 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Gulzar is the 812th most popular film director (up from 1,025th in 2019), the 63rd most popular biography from Pakistan (up from 70th in 2019) and the most popular Pakistani Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.70

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gulzars by language

Over the past year Gulzar has had the most page views in the with 552,042 views, followed by Hindi (47,498), and Bengali (5,170). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are (336.43%), Telugu (113.91%), and Malagasy (91.35%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Gulzar ranks 812 out of 2,041. Before him are Alain Cavalier, Edgar G. Ulmer, Claude Miller, Edmund Goulding, Ulu Grosbard, and Vladimir Gardin. After him are Matthew Vaughn, Ari Folman, Edgar Reitz, Aleksander Ford, Sion Sono, and Sean S. Cunningham.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Gulzar ranks 272. Before him are Vladislao Cap, Murtaza Rakhimov, Nicholas Liverpool, Billy Paul, Tom Baker, and Paul Naschy. After him are Jean Marsh, Jacek Kuroń, Robin Milner, Tengiz Sigua, Eva-Maria Hagen, and Alois Mock.

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In Pakistan

Among people born in Pakistan, Gulzar ranks 63 out of 217. Before him are Milkha Singh (1935), Francis Younghusband (1863), Faiz Ahmad Faiz (1911), Farooq Leghari (1940), Manoj Kumar (1937), and Aafia Siddiqui (1972). After him are Duleep Singh (1838), Malala Yousafzai (1997), Yash Chopra (1932), Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry (1904), Prithviraj Kapoor (1906), and Zafarullah Khan Jamali (1944).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Pakistan

Among film directors born in Pakistan, Gulzar ranks 1. After him are Yash Chopra (1932), Ramanand Sagar (1917), Shekhar Kapur (1945), Ramesh Sippy (1947), Chetan Anand (1915), Govind Nihalani (1940), and Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (1978).

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Filmography

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