Subhash Ghai turns 70, shares love for writing

New Delhi, Jan 24: On his 70th birthday Saturday, writer-filmmaker Subhash Ghai, credited with movies like "Karz", "Hero", "Karma", "Saudagar", "Khalnayak", "Pardes" and "Taal", has spoken fondly of his lesser known talent as a lyricist. He says penning poetry comes from the experience of writing scripts and dialogues for films, automatically. "Actually, as a writer I wrote the story of the film ('Yaadein'), script and the dialogues. When a dialogue writer writes the script, automatically the poetry comes from dialogues. When words (are) strung together, you can create poetry from dialogues," Ghai said during a radio interview on a 92.7 BIG FM show. Ghai not only wrote the dialogues for "Jogger's Park" (2003), but also the lyrics of some of the songs in the film. However, he doesn't consider himself a professional writer. The filmmaker says his love for writing dates back to 1955.