Guru Dutt attempted suicide but parallelly he was making masterpieces: Yasser Usman – Times of India

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.
A whole lot 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 e book.
“Once I started scripting this e book, everybody mentioned that there are already loads of books on Guru Dutt’s life. What new facet will you convey? I imagine we discuss Guru Dutt as somebody very mental and elitist which limits him. He was a industrial filmmaker. Business success was extraordinarily essential to him. Throughout his profession, he simply made one flop movie,” Yasser mentioned.

“Whereas making these classics, he was going by means of a tough private time. He tried suicide however parallelly he was making these masterpieces. That is the contradiction I wished to attain by means of my e book,” he added.

Within the session, Yasser and Avijit additionally conversed upon numerous 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 grew to become his greatest buddy, in a hostel in Pune when their shirts which they despatched for laundry acquired 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 essential 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 industrial cinema.”
Giving an perception into Guru Dutt’s marriage with Geeta Dutta, Yasser mentioned, “When Guru Dutt acquired married to Geeta Dutt, she was an acclaimed singer and a star. Dutt promised Geeta that she will be able to sing after marriage. Later he tweaked the promise that she will be able to sing however just for his movies. In fact, there have been different components just like the rise of Lata Mangeshkar, however it was a downfall for Geeta Dutt.”
(Byline: Devanshi Batra)

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