Guru Dutt’s tragic life story has all the time been the topic of a lot dialogue. Known for his melancholy romantic movies that he each directed and starred in, Guru Dutt died of an obvious suicide in 1964. His son, Arun, was eight years outdated on the time.
In an outdated interview, just lately reshared on YouTube by the WildFilmsIndia channel, Arun spoke about his father’s strained relationship with Geeta Dutt, his spouse, and addressed hypothesis about why they drifted aside.
“He had always had a negative thought process since he was a child. He had morbid thinking,” reflecting on his father’s psychological well being. Asked about his dad and mom’ relationship in direction of the top of his father’s life, he stated, “They had no relationship in the end. They’d separated in 1963. We used to live with our mother near Mehboob Studios, he’d moved out and started living in Peddar Road. The relationship was quite strained by then.”
There had been rumours that Guru Dutt had gotten near Waheeda Rehman and was enormously affected by the failure of Kaagaz Ke Phool, and when Arun Dutt was requested about this, he brushed apart any discuss of their being a monetary disaster. He stated that his father instantly bounced again with the ‘super-duper hit’ Chaudhvin Ka Chand.
Explaining additional, he stated, “There was basically a breaking of trust. When my father started his career, my mother was absolutely at the peak. And she felt betrayed somewhere, in her journey with him. It was a breaking of trust that caused the mutual conflict.”
But regardless of what occurred between them, Arun stated that his mom was ‘very much in love’ together with her former husband even after he died. “She had preserved all his letters from 1951 to 1962. After his death, she got many marriage proposals, but she said no,” he added.
Guru Dutt is greatest recognized for classics of Hindi cinema’s golden age reminiscent of Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool and Saheb Bibi Aur Ghulam. Geeta Dutt suffered from a nervous breakdown after his demise, and died simply eight years later.
