Filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt said about the film director late Guru Dutt that his heritage is not of awards and he turned the agony of life into a poem that also ripped the silence. Guru Dutt, who was counted among the great filmmakers of Indian cinema, made classical films like “Pyaasa”, “Paper Ke Phool” and “Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam”. July 9 is his 100th birth anniversary. He died in 1964 at the age of 39. It is believed that he died due to sleeping pills and drinking alcohol.
Mahesh Bhatt told ‘PTI-Bhasha’, “He converted the agony of life into poetry, such a poem that also rip the silence. Those who came after them, they took the wound along. We do not celebrate the completion of 100 years of Guru Dutt. We return to his legacy. ”Bhatt recalled that when he first saw a big picture of Guru Dutt in Raj Khosla’s office, he was mesmerized.
The filmmaker said, “Guru Dutt’s legacy is not made up of awards, posters or reel. She is made up of silence. When the silence that enters the room and the screen is black (when the picture is over), it stops there. He was our ‘Vyas’ (sage who wrote Mahabharata). “He said,” Guru Dutt gave a poetic shape to his personal anguish. He illuminated his characters with compassion and contradiction. He allowed his inner poet to be furious.
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He touched the hearts of women. He allowed beauty to get into truth. That immortal song of ‘Paper Ke Phool’ is ‘Tau Ke Kiya’, is a beating wound. Their legacy is not a style that can be copied. This is a wound that just has to bear. ”Bhatt said that when he was working on his 1982 film” Earth “, Kavi-Geetor Kaifi Azmi had commented that he has found the pain of Guru Dutt as a disciple of Khosla.
He said, “We were working on a song of” Earth “. Jagjit Singh was making the initial tune of ‘Tum Au Jo So Smiling’. Kaifi saheb was sitting silently, he was not only listening to the tune, but also feeling the wounds hidden behind him. Then he told me in his unmatched soft voice: ‘You have inherited the pain of Guru Dutt. Pain is your heritage.
He said, “I was an assistant to Raj Khosla and Raj Khosla was an assistant to Guru Dutt. This was that Rekha, not of fame, but of pain. For example, wounds are handed over as a holy heritage from generation to generation. Kaifi sir was right. ” Sixty-six-year-old writer-director Mahesh Bhatt said that he has also shown that wound in his work.
Bhatt said, “Guru Dutt cannot be repeated. There are some filmmakers that show the same hunger to show the truth, such as Sanjay Leela Bhansali, which has a passion to show poetic scenes. Vishal Bhardwaj, who has the courage to explore pain through music and poetry. Anurag Kashyap, when he lets the darkness speak without any screen and Mohit Suri, who listens to the silence and keeps the unseen aspects at the center through his music.
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He said, “These filmmakers may walk on different paths, but like Guru Dutt, they understand that when the cinema dare to feel deeply, it becomes a dynamic poem and perhaps this is the flame that is still burning today.