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Occupation (s) Actor, movie producer, movie director, choreographer. Years active. 1944–1964. Spouse. Geeta Dutt. Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone (9 July 1925 – 10 October 1964), known by many as Guru Dutt, was an Indian movie director, producer and actor. [1]
Vijayanagar (AP) Nationality. Indian. Occupation (s) Actor, producer, director. Years active. 1986–present. Chitnahalli Guru Dutt is an Indian actor primarily concentrating on Kannada films alongside a few Tamil films. He is the son of Chi. Udaya Shankar .
Sep 26, 2023 · Waheeda Rehman and Guru Dutt A lifelong relationship that started with a buffalo. New Delhi, Sep 26 (PTI) It all started in 1955 with an errant buffalo and Guru Dutt's car. The animal got in the way and totalled the car, forcing Dutt and his friends to stay on in Hyderabad for a few days. It was then that he spotted a young woman from across ...
Oct 10, 2018 · Actor, director and producer, Guru Dutt, the man behind classics like Pyaasa (1957) and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1960), was nothing short of a multi-faceted genius. Born as Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone in Bangalore on 9 July, 1925, he was a victim of an accident early in his life, and got his his name changed to what he considered more ‘auspicious’.
Sep 26, 2023 · The following year, Dutt introduced her to Hindi audiences through the blockbuster “CID” (1956) , produced by him and directed by Raj Khosla. That was also the first time Rehman and Dev Anand appeared together on screen. Rehman also recalled that first meeting in Hyderabad in Nasreen Munni Kabir’s book “Guru Dutt: A Life in Cinema”.
Guru Dutt is remembered in the history of Indian cinema as the brooding intense romantic who attempted to reflect the changing social situation in India in the fifties. Within his short life, he created some of India’s most socially-conscious movies like Pyaasa (Thirsty, 1957), Kaagaz ke Phool (Paper Flowers, 1960) and Baazi (1951).
Nov 23, 2021 · Author Yasser Usman reminds us in his book Guru Dutt: An Unfinished Story that this romantic duet, sung by Geeta and Mohammed Rafi, remains the only dream song in any Guru Dutt movie and was included to “provide relief in the midst of a serious story.” Pyaasa is a flawless soundtrack (in Guru Dutt’s most flawless outing).
