Guru Dutt team
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The Guru Dutt team is a group of people Guru Dutt created for some of his finest works. The death of Guru Dutt cut short more works. What the team created is considered to forever have left its mark on Indian cinema as well as world cinema.
About
Some well-known movies the team created are Chaudhvin Ka Chand, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam, Kaagaz Ke Phool and Pyaasa. Pyaasa is ranked among the top 100 movies of all times by Time magazine.[1] Much of their work found critical appreciation long after these movies were made. Movies such as Kaagaz Ke Phool, which was a huge commercial failure of its days, found critical and commercial success when it was re-released in the 1980s in Europe. Guru Dutt has a huge fan-following in France, Germany and Japan, where his movie festivals are held occasionally.[2]
The team
- Writer : Abrar Alvi
- Directorial : Raj Khosla, Abrar Alvi
- Cinematography : V.K. Murthy
- Actor(s) : Dev Anand, Waheeda Rehman, Johnny Walker, Rehman
- Singer : Geeta Dutt, Mohammad Rafi
- Music : O. P. Nayyar, S.D. Burman, Hemant Kumar
- Lyrics : Sahir Ludhianvi, Kaifi Azmi
- Editor : Y.G. Chawhan
- Art Director : Biren Nag (worked as Art Director on Dutt's five films)
Notable works
- Baazi (1951)
- Jaal (1952)
- Baaz (1953)
- Aar Paar (1954)
- Mr. & Mrs. '55 (1955)
- C.I.D. (1956)
- Pyaasa (1957)
- Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959)
- Chaudhvin Ka Chand (1960)
- Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962): National Film Awards for Best Feature Film in Hindi; Filmfare Awards for Best Movie, Best Director, Best Cinematographer, Best Actress
- Baharen Phir Bhi Aayengi (1966) - Released post death of Guru Dutt
Post Guru Dutt's death
The magic of the team dissipated after the death of Guru Dutt when he was 39 years old.
Post his death, only a few of the members were able to achieve the critical acclaim they did as a team. Partly the reason was Guru Dutt's eye for detail. Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool are an inspiration for directors even today. The exceptions were Dev Anand, S.D. Burman, Sahir Ludhianvi, Hemant Kumar and Mohammad Rafi who were already established when Guru Dutt entered film making. Waheeda Rehman may be debatable, however none of her future roles would give her same critical acclaim as under the team. V.K.Murthy continued work with Promod Chakravarthy but his notable work was in Tamas (1987), directed by his erstwhile assistant Govind Nihalani.
References
- ^ Richard Corliss and Richard Schickel (12 February 2005). "All-TIME 100 Movies". Time Entertainment. Retrieved 2 November 2011.
- ^ "Asian Film Series No.9 GURU DUTT Retorospective". Japan Foundation Asia Center. 2000–2001. Archived from the original on 20 June 2009. Retrieved 26 April 2009.
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Bibliography
- Guru Dutt, 1925-1965: A Monograph, by Firoze Rangoonwalla, National Film Archive of India, Govt. of India, 1973.
- Guru Dutt, un grand cinéaste encore pratiquement inconnu hors de l’Inde, by Henri Micciollo, Films sans Frontières, 1984.
- Guru Dutt: A Life in Cinema, by Nasreen Munni Kabir, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-564274-0.
- In Black and White: Hollywood and the Melodrama of Guru Dutt, by Darius Cooper, Seagull Books, 2005. ISBN 81-7046-217-7.
- Yours Guru Dutt: Intimate Letters of a Great Indian Filmmaker, by Nasreen Munni Kabir, Lustre Press, Roli Books, 2006. ISBN 81-7436-388-2.
- Ten Years with Guru Dutt: Abrar Alvi's journey, by Sathya Saran. 2008, Penguin, ISBN 0-670-08221-X.