Guru Dutt’s tragic lifestyles tale has all the time been the topic of a lot dialogue. Recognized for his depression romantic motion pictures that he each directed and starred in, Guru Dutt died of an obvious suicide in 1964. His son, Arun, was once 8 years previous on the time.
In an previous interview, just lately reshared on YouTube by way of the WildFilmsIndia channel, Arun spoke about his father’s strained courting with Geeta Dutt, his spouse, and addressed hypothesis about why they drifted aside.
“He had all the time had a destructive idea procedure since he was once a kid. He had morbid pondering,” reflecting on his father’s psychological well being. Requested about his folks’ courting in opposition to the tip of his father’s lifestyles, he mentioned, “They’d no courting after all. They’d separated in 1963. We used to are living with our mom close to Mehboob Studios, he’d moved out and began dwelling in Peddar Street. The connection was once rather strained by way of then.”
There have been rumours that Guru Dutt had gotten on the subject of Waheeda Rehman and was once very much suffering from the failure of Kaagaz Ke Phool, and when Arun Dutt was once requested about this, he brushed apart any communicate in their being a monetary disaster. He mentioned that his father right away bounced again with the ‘super-duper hit’ Chaudhvin Ka Chand.
Explaining additional, he mentioned, “There was once mainly a breaking of consider. When my father began his occupation, my mom was once completely on the top. And he or she felt betrayed someplace, in her adventure with him. It was once a breaking of consider that led to the mutual war.”
However regardless of what came about between them, Arun mentioned that his mom was once ‘very a lot in love’ along with her former husband even after he died. “She had preserved all his letters from 1951 to 1962. After his loss of life, she were given many marriage proposals, however she mentioned no,” he added.
Guru Dutt is highest recognized for classics of Hindi cinema’s golden age equivalent to Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool and Saheb Bibi Aur Ghulam. Geeta Dutt suffered from a anxious breakdown after his loss of life, and died simply 8 years later.
