Poet, Film Writer and Lyricist
Every new poem brings me closer to you....or my idea of You
Shayad ham sab hisse hain Kisson mein uljhe kisse hain Yeh rishte dil ke dil se hain Lautein wahin par phir se hain Sunayana Kachroo On what should have been the happiest day of his life, Kamyar watches his world collapse in an episode of the latest superhit drama “Meri Zindagi Hai Tu.” As he [...]
Somewhere in the narrow by lanes of Lyari, in an old ill lit cafe named Chai and Biryani cafe', Aalam (Gaurav Gera) and Hamza(Ranveer Singh) sit facing each other. The space between them modest, two cups of noon chai(salt tea) placed like an old puzzle on the table. This meeting isn’t random. Hamza is still [...]
Aaja Aaja jind shamiyane ke tale. Have you ever slept under the tent of the starry sky, looking right in the eye of the milky way! I did ! Last week we were traveling in the Moab Valley in Utah. An unplanned trip but the one from our bucket list. For years we had seen [...]
Suraj Sharma starrer The Illegal The mirage that entices us, traps us and inspires us. The elusive dream that always seems Just a step ahead of us. Often in view but never within the reach. This song is about that. When we were looking at having a promotional song for the movie "The Illegal", these [...]
The popularity of a song is not necessarily its legacy. While the popularity does help it reach the masses and may probably contribute to it going to places and the people that it is meant to touch. Yet, it is not a measure of its impact and cannot predict its longevity. Writing or composing often [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jzbakGCEOQ Kadallele- The song of the blossoming of the first Love! Kya Yahi Pyaar Hai? There is something mystically earthy about the freshly blossomed love; love in its purest, silliest, most naive form. Unsullied by the intellectual corruption of the rational mind, dazed by its unannounced arrival, when love shows up for the first time, [...]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVrQUkBmSOc Sometimes Ghar, Home is a person and not a place. Someone who makes you feel secured enough to be carefree, so that you be YOU, in a judgement free zone. Sometimes a person is your home. What makes a place of dwelling a Home, varies for every person. You can decorate and spruce up [...]
We all know people who are often standing on the side in group pictures, sometimes not even in them, often the ones taking those pictures, who are not quintessentially Party Ki Jaan, who quietly slip-in the high decibel get-togethers, hoping no one would notice them. They are simply happy to be in the shadows of [...]
Fursat ke raat din. Having already met Gulzar saab a few times I was aware of the protocol and the decorum around meeting him. I knew that I would be treated to a hot cup of Chai, a warm hug and a conversation around the latest discoveries by the Hubble space telescope. I noticed the [...]
Sunayana Kachroo 