Sunil Gavaskar made a special request on Gulzar Sahab's 90th birthday

Veteran lyricist Gulzar sahab, musician and composer Pandit Bhavdeep Jaipurwale and singer Sumit Tappu launched their new album 'Dil Pareshan Karta Hai' at a star-studded event in Mumbai on August 23. Gulzar sahab's 90th birthday was also celebrated on this special occasion. During this, when Sunil Gavaskar requested Gulzar sahab to complete his century, he said that he will try his best.

Sunil Gavaskar made this request to Gulzar sahab 

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Let us tell you that Sunil Gavaskar, in the joy of Gulzar sahab completing 90 years, said, "Now you have completed 90 years. We believe only in scoring centuries. Hope you will definitely score a century. But keep in mind that you will have to continue playing with a 'straight bat'". To this Gulzar sahab replied that "We will definitely try, because we are not great batsmen like you"!

Several guests attended the event

On this occasion, Padma Vibhushan Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, former captain of the Indian cricket team and amazing batsman Sunil Gavaskar, Padmashree Anup Jalota, Gadar director Anil Sharma, singer Nitin Mukesh, Chandan Das, Ghanshyam Vaswani, Shyam Singhania, Lalit Pandit, Arun Govil, JD Majithia, Vijay Dayal, Anand Dabre, Ashok Khosla, Kunal Ganjawala and many other celebrities were present as chief guests.

Gulzar sahab directed many films

Gulzar sahab has also directed many films in the Hindi film industry like Koshish, Parichay, Achanak, Khushboo, Aandhi, Mausam, Kinara, Mere Apne, Meera, Kitaab, Namkeen, Ijaazat, Libaas, Angoor, Lekin, Maachis and Hu Tu Tu.

Gulzar Sahab has been honored with many awards

Gulzar sahab has been awarded 20 Filmfare and 5 National Awards. He also received the Grammy Award in 2010 for the song 'Jai Ho' from the film 'Slumdog Millionaire'. In view of his contribution to Indian cinema, he was awarded the country's third highest civilian award Padma Bhushan in 2004. In the year 2013, he has also been awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.

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