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Kaagaz Ke Phool : Citizen Kane comes to India -- A masterpiece by Guru DuttKaagaz Ke Phool (1959) INDIA, Guru Dutt Classic Citizen Kane comes to India -- A masterpiece by Guru Dutt By Alex Deleon वक़्त ने किया क्या हसीं सितम तुम रहे न तुम हम रहे न हम वक़्त ने किया क्या हसीं सितम तुम रहे न तुम हम रहे न हम वक़्त ने किया
Kaghaz ke phool ~ Dutt's Paper Flowers Is Pure Gold ... Guru Dutt, the troubled genius who committed suicide in 1964 at the age of 39 is a legend in India but little known outside of the subcontinent. In several other films films Dutt as actor/director played a semi-loser from the wrong side of the tracks who finally wins out against all odds to get the hand of a beautiful woman, but In "KAGAZ KE PHOOL" ("Paper Flowers") , now generally regarded as Dutt's masterpiece, he plays the role of a gigantic loser, a famous film director --something like a Bombay Cecil B. DeMille -- who junks his career and loses the great love of his life due to his own self-destructive tendencies, falling all the way to the bottom in a morbid tale with many echoes of Orson Welles' "Citizen Kane". Much of what was actually going on in Dutt's private life is woven into the fabric of the film as it practically prophecies his own doom five years later. Dutt was evidently a driven and bedeviled man when Paper Flowers was being made and his personal pain pervades the picture, which was a great box office flop when it came out despite its compelling star power. (Note: Kane was also not a hit when it came out, although it is now regularly cited as "The greatest motion picture ever made"). The commercial failure of the film so discouraged Dutt that he stopped directing although he continued to appear as an actor in other films, notably "Sahib, Bibi, aur Gulam" (Master, Wife, and Slave), which was a big hit and won all kinds of awards in1963 including a Best Actor nomination for Dutt himself in the role of the servant in love with his master's wife. 04.02.2022 | ALEX FARBA's blog Cat. : FILM
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