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Guru Dutt Profile

1950′s were undoubtedly the golden era of Hindi films blessed with directors and artistes who could stamp their individuality in their work. One such personality who carved a niche for himself as a director, actor and producer in the decade, was Guru Dutt Shiv Shankar Padukone or more popularly known just as Guru Dutt.

Guru Dutt was born on July 9, 1925 in Bangalore, Karnataka to a middle class Brahmin Saraswat family as Vasanth Kumar Shivsankar Padukone. His father Shiv Shanker Padukone worked as a school headmaster and then in a bank in Bangalore and his mother Vasanthi taught in a school, gave tuitions and also wrote short stories and translated Bengali novels into Kannada.As a child he had bad experiences;

Guru Dutt joined the Uday Shankar India Culture Centre at Almora, Uttaranchal on a five year scholarship of Rs. 75 annually. After completing his studies at Almora Dutt moved to Mumbai where his uncle arranged a job under three year contract with Prabhat Film Company in Pune. Guru Dutt met two great actors Rehman and Dev Anand in Prabhat Film Company and they developed good friendship.

Guru Dutt made his debut in films with a small role as Sri Krishna in the film “Chand”. Then he acted as well as assisted director Vishram Bedekar in the movie “Lakhrani”.

In Mumbai Guru Dutt worked with two leading directors of that time- Amiya Chakravarthy and Gyan Mukherjee. Thereafter Dev Anand offered him a job as director in his new production company, Navketan. As director at Navketan his first film was “Baazi”. Guru Dutt used close-up shots with 100mm lens camera in the film “Baazi”, which later became famous as ‘Guru Dutt Shots’ in the Indian cinema.

Guru Dutt gave many super hit films as director as well as actor. Some of them were “Aar Paar”, “Mr. & Mrs. 55″, “Pyasa”, “C I D”, “Sailab”, “Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam” and “Chaudhvin Ka Chand’.

Guru Dutt was married to the famous playback singer Geeta Dutt.

He is credited with introducing Zohra Sehgal, Johny Walker and Wahida Rehman to the Indian cinema.

Guru Dutt took his last breath on 10th October, 1964

Guru Dutt films had a uniqueness- a brooding intensity about it that a single frame of his work could identify its creator. Ironically his films earned recognition and interest much later in the 70′s and the 80′s and even now his films whenever they are re- released run full houses.

Guru Dutt won Filmfare Best Film Award for “Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam”

Filmography:

Picnic, Sanjh Aur Savera,
Suhagan, Bahurani, Bharosa,
Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam,
Sautela Bhai,
Chaudhvin Ka Chand,
Kaagaz Ke Phool, Pyaasa,
Mr. & Mrs. ’55, Aar Paar,
Suhagan, Baaz,
Hum Ek Hain ,Baazi.

Original Name : Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone
Film Name       : Guru Dutt
Date of Birth    : 9 July, 1925
Birth Place       : Bangalore
Date of Death   : 10 October, 1964
Hair Color        : Black
Education         : Uday Shankar’s dancing school at Almora
Profession         : Director, Choreographer, Producer and Actor
Debut Film        : Chand