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Romail Gulzar is an entrepreneur, journalist, and philanthropist. He is the founder of Pukaar Group, a global mass-media company. Gulzar is a recipient of the Nationwide Award for Voluntary Endeavour and an Outstanding Contribution Award for Community Work in Leicester.

Early Life and Education
Gulzar was born in Lahore, Pakistan. He moved to Dubai to pursue a better standard of living before deciding to relocate to the UK in 2000 where he obtained his Higher National Diploma in television and journalism from South Leicestershire College. In 2011, while at college, he started Pukaar News. He then traveled to India to study Film Journalism at the Asian Academy of Film and Television (AAFT).

Career
Gulzar started his career in journalism as a work experience for video journalist for ITV. He launched and is currently the Managing Editor and Publishing Executive of Pukaar News's quarterly publication Pukaar Magazine since January 2012. In 2013, Pukaar Magazine was shortlisted as a finalist for Best Local Newspaper at the Asian Media Awards.

Gulzar is the founder of Pukaar Group with its headquarters in Midlands. Its subsidiaries include online news platform Pukaar News and Pukaar Magazine and organise events including Leicester's Got Talent that celebrates and encourages talents of local youth, Leicester Curry Awards, an annual gala dinner celebrating Leicester’s Asian food culture,  the Toronto Curry Awards, and Ethnic Media Awards, an awards program for professionals from a minority ethnic background. He also started the National Samosa Week.

Philanthropist
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Gulzar launched the Always in our Thoughts campaign to recognize and remember people who the virus had impacted. The money raised by the campaign was donated to Leicester Children’s Hospital Appeal and Care of Police Survivors (COPS).

Awards and Recognition
Gulzar has received several awards including, the "Recognition of Services to the Not-For-Profit Sector" award by then-Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Millenium Award UnLtd, the Nationwide Awards for Voluntary Endeavour, the Outstanding Contribution Award for Community Work in South Hampton.