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'Guru Dutt was a master of emotions'
E-mail from readers the world over
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Wed, 10 Nov 1999 22:27:43 +0530 I am a Hindi film buff and graduated from the school of cinema watchers by watching Guru Dutt and Raj Kapoor's films. But never have my feelings been written the way Varsha has written. I salute Varsha for expressing the feelings of so many of us -- silent fans of Hindi cinema who still yearn nostalgically for poetry, life, and emotion in Hindi cinema. Vihang
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Wed, 10 Nov 1999 09:18:48 -0800 I really enjoyed this piece on Guru Dutt, and the flashback journey. He remains my favourite (other one is Rajesh Khanna in Anand) and it was really a treat to read this article about the master. One thing that was disappointing was the lack of acknowledgement of Rafisaheb's talents that give support to weave the magic that Guru Dutt could. Please keep them coming... Arun Mandhania
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Wed, 10 Nov 1999 13:24:43 -0500 Excellent Varsha! I have not found anyone here in USA with whom I could discuss the phenomenon Guru Dutt was and is in minds like Varsha, I and others who are scattered around the globe. He was a master of emotions. I was very young when he died. Had he been alive he would have been in his mid seventies today.
Nalin Jain
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Tue, 9 Nov 1999 23:40:49 -0800 Very nice piece of work. Looks like you have poured your heart into this one. Please write a piece about Mohammad Rafi and others.
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Tue, 9 Nov 1999 22:58:59 -0500 Excellent article. It took me on a nostalgic tour of the golden era of Hindi cinema. It's hard to believe that with such fine movie makers in the past, our present movies are so pathetic. They should have learnt and improved, but what we see is total degeneration. Vasu
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Tue, 09 Nov 1999 21:25:41 -0500 A true masterpiece. One of those when read and say, "I wish I could have written that". One minor disappointment though. I was hoping Varsha would give some hint as to the circumstances surrounding the tragic deaths of Guru Dutt and his wife. Maybe she is saving it for another article. Keep it up, Varsha. Nand Tandan
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Wed, 10 Nov 1999 23:00:10 +0300 At least one article we can agree on! As a young Malayali Boy, watching Johnny Walker doing malish in an old temporary theatre in the village in the early fifties was fascinating. Jane Woh Kaise still rings in the ears. Did not understand the meaning of any of those words then. When the boy came to Mumbai in the sixties, he became kurban on Dutt Saheb. Pyaasa was and is still etched in the mind. My fascination with his movies and songs have transcended to my children also -- to the extent my teenaged son who now studies in the States sings Jane woh kaise there also. We look forward to reading more such articles. Thank you. Salim
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Wed, 10 Nov 1999 16:53:12 -0500 As always it's a good article. But it's too long, I mean, why is she telling us things we don't want to know...like why she hates Prithviraj Kapoor and so on? Why not just more Guru Dutt? Amit
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Wed, 10 Nov 1999 17:01:02 -0500 Great article! Can you please build a URL with all of Varsha Bhosle's articles in Rediff over the last one year? My wife and I love reading her articles, and I want to print them all out, and show them to my friends also.
Rajeev Tantia
Varsha Bhosle's columns can be found at: http://www.rediff.com/news/varsha.htm
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Wed, 10 Nov 1999 19:46:33 -0600 I have read a lot of reviews -- some of them even pointed towards Guru Dutt. This one is really cute -- not because she is so passionate nor because of her great language, but I really loved the specific sequences she mentioned and also when she mentioned about the directorial genius of Guru Dutt. I found another person pointing towards the quality we are missing from our current movie makers. When I think about Hindi movies -- I just can't forget the scene in Pyaasa, in which he depicts his life with the fate of the rose in the street -- it was marvellous. Thanks Varsha for the lengthy but great article. Raj
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Tue, 09 Nov 1999 13:34:24 -0700 I have read many articles, stories and reviews of Mr Dutt, I cannot allow myself to say Dutt or Guru because he is a legend. Nothing has interested me like this article. Hats off to Varsha. I am also a fan of Mr Dutt and what more -- I believe he was one of the best, but, not in your class as a fan of his. Truly he raped the innocence with sugar-coated bitter pills. Madhav Muni
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Tue, 9 Nov 1999 17:16:40 -0600 What a trip down memory lane! Took some time to realise who the writer's Aai and DidiMavshi (Aunt Lata) and Aunt Usha were. There should be a law against someone from such a talented gene pool doing journalism (and she does it well, I must add, with her biting sarcasm and take-no- prisoner's approach). I mean, she should be made to sing. Who else can, and will, replace the irreplaceable Lata M, Asha B and Usha M? Well, okay! Maybe she can both write and sing. Coming back to Guru Dutt (who also happens to be my favourite actor), it has often been said that the melancholy streak which dominated his films (Ah! what films those were: I feel no one else has even come, or will ever come, close to making anything which even remotely approaches them) and later led to his committing suicide (if my memory serves me right, he did take his own life, didn't he?), could be attributed to a lonely, fatherless childhood -- his mother often claimed that she brought the children up alone because her husband had deserted his family. Not true at all. His father, Shivshankar Padhukone, was a decent man, a pious man, who slaved to make sure that the family was well taken care of. My father knew him during WWII, when both of them worked for Shell (my father, of course, was in his late teens, and Mr Padukone, was close to retiring), but nearly six decades later, he still remembers his late colleague as a "very nice chap." More later... Ramesh Kini
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Tue, 09 Nov 1999 20:32:40 -0500 Brilliant and nostalgic. It made me sing Lo yad aagye hai, woh guzare hue zamane. Satish Rao
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Tue, 9 Nov 1999 10:29:35 -0500 An interesting piece. I am a big fan of Guru Dutt myself. I relish and cherish old Hindi and Marathi film music and bhakti and bhaav geet of Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar and Geeta Dutt as well. Sunil Karnik
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Tue, 09 Nov 1999 10:42:12 -0800 Excellent! This article is brilliant! I have never read a better piece about Guru Dutt's films. I remember falling in love with his films twenty-five years ago. I still consider him to be not very far from a Satyajit Ray or Kurosawa. Thanks a lot for this article. Varsha writes eloquently and I try to read her articles as much as possible. Salil
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Tue, 09 Nov 1999 11:58:31 -0500 Ahem, this article from an "instigative journalist" (my version for some journalists!). Oh, my head reels and my innards collapse, the pressure is too much! Aaah, what a "senti", mushy article. All about a person like Guru Dutt and his movies like Pyaasa. The order of the day (the time of movies such as Pyaasa), was to hit the average man/woman with all the power a "senti" film can deliver. Gaack, there is nothing more irritating than these so called mushily-overdone movies. Ajay S
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Thu, 4 Nov 1999 16:06:44 -0000 What a load of bollocks the article on Dutt by Varsha Bhosle was. It was purely an exercise in self glorification, a mega ego trip. I have to see these films now for a few seconds to initially recoil in buttock clenching horror at the acting and songs and then dissolve in laughter at the silliness of it all. It is silly. Just because she is describing films of old they are no better. Vidya Hejmadi
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