Age of Innocence

From Lakdi ki Kaathi in Masoom to the Mowgli theme song of The Jungle Book on Doordarshan,Gulzar’s association with children’s songs is very well-known. Now Nickelodeon’s latest animated show Motu Patlu,based on the homegrown Hindi comics of the ’80s,will have Gulzar penning the title song composed by Sandesh Shandiliya and sung by Sukhwinder Singh. “I have always enjoyed writing for children. Just like my previous songs,this too was a lot of fun,” he said at the press launch of the show. The show starts on October 16.