Post college Meghna Gulzar was freelancing for leading publications and her poems were published as part of anthologies in the Poetry Societyof India.She began in her career in films by Saeed Akhtar Mirza on Naseem and her father Gulzar onMaachis and Hu Tu Tu, simultaneouslyscripting her own films, both feature and documentaries. Taking her father’s advice, she juggled with everything- music albums, corporate ads, even anchoring.
Come year 2002 and Meghna was ready to debut as director, Filhaal on the subject of surrogacy was a sensitive film with marvellous performances from Sushmita Sen and Tabu but mysteriously went unsung. Her second feature Just Married in 2007 addressed arranged marriage but did not appeal to the audience. It was her short film Pooranmaashi part of Dus Kahaaniyaan in the same year that got her eyeballs, however it was the Noida Double-Murder case Talvar in 2015 that the critics noticed her and it was Raazi in 2018 that the box-office celebrated her.
To be continued