Because He Is

All of us know Gulzar as a filmmaker, screenplay and dialogue writer, a lyricist par excellence, an author and poet. Because He Is presents a facet of the icon that none of us are aware of - a father. In iridescent prose, his daughter Meghna documents his life, revealing the man behind the legend: in every way a hands-on father, who prepared her for school without fail every day, which included braiding her hair and tying her shoelaces; who, despite his busy career in cinema, always made it a point to end his workday at 4 p.m. because her school ended at that time; and who wrote a book for her birthday every year till she was thirteen.