Guru Dutt
9 July 1925 – 10 October 1964
Guru Dutt was an Indian film director, producer and actor who worked in Hindi cinema during the 1950s and early 1960s. After training at the Uday Shankar centre in Almora and working at Prabhat Film Company in Pune, he directed Baazi in 1951 and went on to make Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool, the first Indian feature shot in CinemaScope. He died in Bombay in 1964 at the age of thirty-nine.
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Life events
His family later moved to Bhowanipore in Calcutta, where he spent much of his childhood.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe studied dance and choreography on a scholarship at the centre.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe worked as a choreographer and assistant director and met Dev Anand and Rehman there.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe crime film was produced by Dev Anand's Navketan Films and was a commercial success.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe couple had three children; the marriage became strained in later years.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe film about a struggling poet became one of his best-known works.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgIt failed commercially on release and was the last film he directed under his own name.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgThe film was directed by Abrar Alvi and won the Filmfare Award for Best Film.
Source: en.wikipedia.orgHe was found dead in his apartment after taking sleeping pills with alcohol.
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