Guru Dutt attempted suicide but parallelly he was making masterpieces: Yasser Usman – Indiatimes.com

Thought to be one of many biggest filmmakers of Indian cinema and lauded for his cinematic work, filmmaker, movie director, producer, actor, choreographer, and author, Guru Dutt was certainly a star filmmaker who’s not forgotten and continues to be related.
Loads of authors have penned concerning the legendary filmmaker. Certainly one of them is the best-selling Bollywood biographer, Yasser Usman who got here out along with his biography ‘Guru Dutt: An Unfinished Story’ in 2021. On this definitive biography of a nonconformist star, Yasser explores the person and the parable that Guru Dutt was. He uncovers the extraordinary lives of the wealthy and the well-known, and the toll it takes on the emotional and psychological well being of a human being. He additionally narrates Guru Dutt’s unfinished life, a story of unrequited love, unresolved relationships and unmatched cinematic expertise, and way more.
In a session titled ‘Guru Dutt: Exploring the lifetime of an enigma’ on the Instances Litfest 2023, Yasser was seen in dialog with Avijit Ghosh, creator and affiliate editor with The Instances of India, whereby they spoke about Guru Dutt’s quick however compassionate, bold and in the end tragic life that reveals itself within the pages of this guide.
“After I started penning this guide, everybody mentioned that there are already plenty of books on Guru Dutt’s life. What new facet will you convey? I imagine we speak about Guru Dutt as somebody very mental and elitist which limits him. He was a business filmmaker. Industrial success was extraordinarily necessary to him. Throughout his profession, he simply made one flop movie,” Yasser mentioned.

“Whereas making these classics, he was going via a tough private time. He tried suicide however parallelly he was making these masterpieces. That is the contradiction I needed to attain via my guide,” he added.

Within the session, Yasser and Avijit additionally conversed upon varied facets from Guru Dutt’s life, including– his childhood, how he started his profession, and his life with spouse Geeta Dutt who was an acclaimed singer.

When Avijit requested Usman about Guru Dutt’s encounter and relationship with Dev Anand, Yasser mentioned, “Guru Dutt met Dev Anand, who later turned his finest pal, in a hostel in Pune when their shirts which they despatched for laundry received interchanged. The film ‘Baazi’, by which Dev Anand was the main actor and which was directed by Guru Dutt, gave Dev Anand the picture and elegance. That is Guru Dutt’s necessary contribution to Dev Anand’s profession.”
The dialog additional escalated when somebody from the viewers questioned the 2 about Balraj Sahni’s conflict with Guru Dutt. It’s famous that Balraj Sahni had co-authored the screenplay for the film ‘Baazi’. To this Avijit replied, “The conflict between Balraj Sahni and Guru Dutt was ideological. Sahni was left oriented and he believed in significant cinema, whereas Guru Dutt believed in business cinema.”
Giving an perception into Guru Dutt’s marriage with Geeta Dutta, Yasser mentioned, “When Guru Dutt received married to Geeta Dutt, she was an acclaimed singer and a star. Dutt promised Geeta that she will sing after marriage. Later he tweaked the promise that she will sing however just for his movies. After all, there have been different components just like the rise of Lata Mangeshkar, but it surely was a downfall for Geeta Dutt.”
(Byline: Devanshi Batra)

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