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Oct 10, 2022 · Leaving aside how well Chup works as a film, it’s a testimony to the lasting charisma of Guru Dutt and his beloved Kaagaz Ke Phool. Actor, director and producer, Dutt directed only eight films in his career, beginning with Baazi (1951), which was also when he met playback singer Geeta Dutt (whom he would later marry).
2 days ago · Guru Dutt's 99th birth anniversary | The shadow of Guru Dutt’s great personal films (Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool) always looms large. But one should never forget Guru Dutt as the light-hearted ...
Jul 9, 2023 · Several great artists continue to live with us through their work. One of them is the legendary Guru Dutt. His 1957 film Pyaasa found a place in Time magazine’s list of all-time 100 great movies. His films Kaagaz Ke Phool, Chaudhvin Ka Chand, and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam are quoted as examples of great cinema. Only if Dutt would have known just ...
Jan 9, 2024 · Baazi marked Dutt’s directorial debut, a stylish crime noir starring Anand. A year later, Dutt featured Anand yet again in his sophomore noir Jaal. These movies redefined the noir genre for Bollywood with sharp visuals and morally gray characters. Jaal, in fact, is regarded as perhaps the first Bollywood film with an antihero. Guru Dutt, the ...
Guru Dutt makes evident his initial preoccupation with a nihilist theme central to almost all his films post Pyaasa – annihilation of the self. Guru Dutt understands this theme as being an ambivalent emotion, almost nascent in a mercurial yet perceptive protagonist.
3 days ago · Guru Dutt (born July 9, 1925, Bangalore [now Bengaluru], Mysore princely state [now Karnataka, India]—died October 10, 1964, Bombay [now Mumbai]) was a Hindi motion-picture producer, director, writer, and actor, whose mastery of such elements as mood and lighting in a group of melodramas made him one of the best-known and most-accomplished stylists of Bollywood’s golden age.
Jun 8, 2022 · The school closed due to lack of funding in 1944, and Benegal steered Dutt to the Prabhat Film Company, where Dutt was hired as a dance director on contract. Prabhat was one of the leading studios in North India throughout the 1930s, yet its influence began to wane during the following decade, according to the scholar and filmmaker Nasreen Munni Kabir’s book Guru Dutt: A Life in Cinema (1996).
