Madan Gopal Singh

Madan Gopal Singh, son of the renowned Punjabi poet Harbhajan Singh is a singer, music composer, lyricist, editor, film theorist and a polyglot. He who is a senior fellow at Nehru Memorial Museum and Library, New Delhi is also teacher of English literature. Gopal Singh is a versatile genius who has written and lectured widely on cinema, cultural history in spite of performing worldwide with his ensemble Chaar Yaar. Besides writing lyrics and dialogues for several critically acclaimed movies like Qissa, Ekti Naadir Naam, Kaya Taran etc., he has translated and sung poets and musicians like Rumi, Shah Hussain, Federico Garcia Lorca, and John Lennon et al.