Guru Dutt’s Pyassa will clock 100 years in July Celebration planned
Guru Dutt’s Pyassa will clock 100 years in July
Celebration planned
Come July 9, 2025, there would be a. celebration to commemorate the centenary.of Pyaasa.
Guru Dutt’s directorial films won for him global fame for Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, Looking back at his career as producer, director, actor and writer, cannot box him in any specific genre though his earlier thrillers were no less unique than the trilogy.
The story goes that he did not wish to play the protagonist in films he directed himself but was somehow forced to take up the challenge when the hero he had originally banked on, refused or backed out of the film.
His Kaagaz Ke Phool(Paper Flowers) is a self-reflexive film, perhaps the first such in Hindi cinema that focused on the life and death of a director and not an actor. That it is, indeed, a film.
A year before Kaagaz Ke Phool hit the theatres, a film featuring Nutan in the title role named Sone Ki Chidiya, was released in 1958. The name was strongly suggestive of the life of a young orphan Lakshmi (Nutan) who was forced to step into the film industry and not only became very famous but also became the scapegoat of her relatives, friends and even the young man she fell in love with.
Though the film was directed by the talented filmmaker Shaheed Latif and produced and written by his famous wife Ismat Chughtai, the film flopped miserably. But it was a good film with beautiful music and Talat Mahmood, who played a negative role, sang some outstanding songs under the baton of the then-young O.P. Nayyar.
News Edit KV Raman
