Lyricist Gulzar celebrates his birthday today that is August 18. Gulzar or Sampooran Singh Kalra has penned down many heart rendering songs for Bollywood.

Gulzar is also a poet and a director. He was born in the year 1936. He mainly writes in Hindi and Urdu languages. Apart from these languages he also has written in Braj, Khadiboli, Haryanvi and Marwari.

For his contribution in the fields of Arts, Gulzar was honoured with the nation award, Padma Bhushan in the year 2004. He is also the recipient of the Sahitya Akademi Award that he received in the year 2002.

Gulzar has been associated with almost all the best music directors from Bollywood. His list includes Rahul Dev Burman, A R Rahman, Vishal Bharadwaj, Sachin Dev Barman, Salil Chowdhury, Hemant Kumar, Madan Mohan, Shankar Ehsaan Loy and Anu Malik.

More recently, Gulzar has received a Grammy Award for his song in the Oscar winning movie ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. The song is ‘Jai Ho’.