Times of India (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Writer-director Abrar Alvi, Guru Dutt's `write hand man', passed away Wednesday night. The writer of several classics was, however, best known as the director of `Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam'. Eighty-two-year-old Alvi had severe diabetes and was bedridden for a year.
The Evening Class (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
How fortunate can a website be to have two of the Bay Area's best film writers offer previews of what I consider to be this weekend's winner of—as Michael Hawley aptly terms it— November's "filmfest smackdown." Film festivalism has never been more athletic or competitive!! Lay your bets, cinephiles! The 3rd i San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival returns for its...
The Evening Class (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
All the leaves are brown, and the skies are gray. November is here, and so is the most excellent 3rd i , or the San Francisco International South Asian Film Festival. In its seventh year, 3rd i has become one of the must-go film festivals in the Bay Area, where you can catch up with outstanding selections from the "shorts, documentaries, and feature films from South Asia and the South Asian Diaspora,...
Daily News Analysis (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Can you imagine former US president George Bush, an assassin and Guru Dutt rubbing shoulders with one another? They were.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Madhubala, Guru Dutt, Johnny Walker, Yasmin, Lalita Pawar, Kumkum, Cuckoo, Agha, Uma Devi
rediff Movies (Free subscription) | 23/10/2009
Arun Dutt talks about his famous father Guru Dutt and how it was like growing up under his shadow.
Most Beautiful Fraud in the World (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
Off the proverbial radar for this week and week-end. Will return Tuesdayish with reviews of Antichrist, Where The Wild Things Are, Amelia, The Baader Meinhof Complex, Law Abiding Citizen, Still Walking, as well as my contribution to The Italian Horror Blog-a-Thon over at Hugo Stiglitz Makes Movies , a blog review of Coppola's misbegotten and miopic mini-masterpiece (sorta!?) One From The Heart (which...
India eNews (Free subscription) | 21/10/2009
National Award winning Bengali actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is keen to wield the megaphone and follow in the footsteps of legends like Guru Dutt to make movies that have 'intelligence and mass appeal'.
Tativille (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
Warning: the following post contains partial spoliers. One of the unqualified highlights of this year's New York Film Festival, Abrar Alvi's Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam ( Master, Mistress, Servant , 1962), the longtime scenarist and dialogue writer's lone directorial credit, might as well bear the authorial stamp of its male lead, legendary actor-director Guru Dutt : after all, there are exceedingly few...
Bulletin.India (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
National Award winning Bengali actor Prosenjit Chatterjee is keen to wield the megaphone and follow in the footsteps of legends like Guru Dutt to make movies that have "intelligence and mass appeal".
Most Beautiful Fraud in the World (Free subscription) | 10/10/2009
Now I know that when it comes to cinema there is more (much much more) that I have NOT seen than I have. Glaring omissions in my film history knowledge. Filmmakers such as De Sica ( Bicycle Thief , one of my favourite films aside), early Ozu and Douglas Sirk immediately come to mind. So much to see and only a finite space to do so, but I am trying my damnest to catch up. There are those filmmakers...
Bulletin.India (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Some of the memorable films of Indian filmmaker Guru Dutt, including Kaagaz ke Phool, Pyaasa and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam are being screened at the renowned New York Film festival this year, showcasing the works of the legendary artist.<br>
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 08/10/2009
Guru Dutt, revered as one of the great directors of Bollywood's golden age in the 1950s and '60s, is sometimes referred to as the "Orson Welles of India" - in part because the two men had similar rise-and-fall career trajectories....
Upperstall Blogs (Free subscription) | 07/10/2009
October 2, 1959 saw the release of Guru Dutt’s Kaagaz ke Phool. The film was a total washout at the box-office and what’s more, received some scathing reviews in its time. Hailed as a masterpiece today, it is also remembered for being India’s first feature film to be shot on CinemaScope and released 50 years [...]
Cinema Viewfinder (Free subscription) | 05/10/2009
The 47th New York Film Festival ends on Sunday. But part of the reason I came this week was because it is thick with films and events that I consider to be especially noteworthy. First up, I caught tonight's film this morning, Souleymane Cissé's Min Yè... ( Tell Me Who You Are... ) , an engaging melodrama that peers into the tradition of polygamous marriages in Bamako, the capital of...
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