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Hansal Mehta feels Guru Dutt wasn't a great actor.

Guru Dutt wasn't a great actor, found him 'fairly blank', says Hansal Mehta: 'His cinema overpowered his inadequacy'

August 07, 2025 4:52 pm

Hansal Mehta believes Guru Dutt wasn't a great actor, but such an extraordinary director that his filmmaking craft far overpowered his inadequate acting.

Pyaasa: Guru Dutt made the original 'broke man propaganda' movie, but it was also a cry for help that nobody answered

July 10, 2025 8:05 am

Post Credits Scene: Ask yourself this, why are the two most popular archetypes in Indian cinema the ‘Angry Young Man’ and the ‘Devdas’? They occupy the two extremes of the male psyche, but they reflect the reality of what untreated men in our country experience daily: rage and sorrow. The same men feel seen and heard through Guru Dutt's Pyaasa.

Guru Dutt at 100: The filmmaker, the man and the myth

July 21, 2025 4:46 pm

His classic films, untimely death, and the blurring of lines between his personal life and cinematic work make Dutt’s story captivating. They give a mythical quality to a man whose fragility, both on screen and in real life, was all too real

Why Guru Dutt's first feature Baazi remains the film Bollywood still owes a debt to, Raj Kapoor did it in his own style in Shree 420

July 15, 2025 5:44 pm

Gutu Dutt's 100th birth anniversary: So seminal was Guru Dutt's Baazi that just four years later, Raj Kapoor crafted his own interpretation of it in Shree 420.

In his centenary year, making sense of Guru Dutt in the classroom

August 14, 2024 10:30 am

In films such as ‘Pyaasa’, the actor-director challenges our habit of thought while showing us how commerce dominates and displaces both art and the artist

Guru Dutt believed he was making 'insubstantial' cinema before Pyaasa, the film released him from 'solitary confinement'

July 10, 2022 8:57 am

On Guru Dutt's 97th birth anniversary, here's revisiting the time when Dutt felt like he had been let out of prison while making Pyaasa.

Pyaasa in Venice

September 10, 2015 12:00 am

The restored version of Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa will have a world premiere in the competition section of the 72nd Venice Film Festival.

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Indian classic 'Pyaasa' restored for upcoming Venice Film Fest

August 26, 2015 4:36 pm

"Pyaasa"has become the first film to be restored to its original quality for the upcoming Venice Film Festival to be held next month.

Spare us in 2014: Film trends we would not like to see this year

January 03, 2014 5:41 am

We already know whats in store for us with the expected releases in 2014.

Not Safe, But Sound

January 03, 2014 1:20 am

Formula films may be passé as are happy endings,but this might probably change mainstream Hindi cinema for the better.

Nepal’s Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak resigns after 19 killed in ‘Gen Z’ protests

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Nepal's Home Minister Ramesh Lekhak has resigned after 19 people died during youth-led protests demanding reforms and accountability. The protests spread across major cities and police opened fire on demonstrators. Lekhak tendered his resignation to Prime Minister KP Sharma Oli during a Cabinet meeting, following calls from Nepali Congress leaders earlier in the day.

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