the hall in the india islamic centre delhi was tightly packed with fans and literary connoisseurs on friday for the release of three books on gulzars three iconic bollywood movies aandhi angoorandijaazat seeing the enthusiastic audience in the hall gulzar remarked jaise aapne aaj hall bhar di hai kash mere filmo ke hall aise bhartethe books released were named after the movies they were based on namely aandhi angoor and ijaazat the books based on these movies are written by saba mahmood bashir sathya saran and mira hashmi respectively and published by harpercollins india mira hashmi could not attend the event in delhi but saba mahmood bashir and sathya saran joined udayan mitra publisher harpercollins india and gulzar sahab to discuss his movies and their impacttalking about how she came to write about the 1975 movie aandhi saba said that though namkeen is her favourite movie by gulzar aandhi as a book was more viable saba a poet author and translator has written i swallowed the moon the poetry of gulzar and translated gulzars screenplays of premchands godaan and nirmala and other stories they then discussed how the film was considered political and was said to be based on indira gandhis life to which saba said 1975 was the time when superhit films like sholay dewar jai maa santoshi were released this was also the year when the emergency was imposed i have a very strong feeling that aandhi got into trouble for no reason it was already a hit film it was an article which came at that time which said see your prime minister onscreen and a ban was imposed on the filmsharing his point of view gulzar said the movie was banned saying that it is based on mrs gandhis life which is not true we all know mrs gandhis life it has absolutely no resemblance to her life but it has a resemblance of a portrayal as a symbol whenever an actor has to portray a character or a writer has to draw a character they draw a model inspiration from someone it was the first time when a hindi movie was being made about a female politician at that time there couldnt be a better model than mrs gandhisaba further added that gulzars 1999 movie hu tu tu seemed like a sequel to his 70s movie aandhi while maachis seems to be the sequel of the 1971 movie mere apne which highlighted the issues of unemploymentthey went on to discuss angoor based on shakespeares play the comedy of errors the book on angoor is written by sathya saran consulting editor with harpercollins india she has previously written biographies of guru dutt and sd burman though a gulzar fan she was initially reluctant to write on angoor as its a comedy i want to be tragic she joked its more beautifuludayan mitra pointed out that this movie still plays a lot on tv and they both agreed that no matter what time you put it on