Guru Dutt:Ek Sanjida Filmmaker

9 july ko Guru Dutt ka janmadin hai.mumkin hai patra-patrikaon,news chaneels aur filmy channels par unke sambandh mein apne-apne anaz mein har koi kuchh na kuchh likhe,bole aur bataye.aaj unhen aur unki filmon ko yaad karte hue sabhi ek hi raag alap rahe honge.bagair unki films dekhe,samjhe aur niji taur par aatmasaat kiye hi har koi tarif kar raha hota hai.waqt aa gaya hai ki ham Guru Dutt ka sahi moolyankan karen aur aaj ke sandarbh mein dekhen ki woh kitne prasangik aur mahtvapoorn hain.

main yahan unka likha ek lekh post kar raha hoon.yah lekh unhonne Screen ke liye likha tha.yah lekh mujhe Shashikant Kinikar ki pustak ‘Guru Dutt 1925-1964′ mein mila.pustak mein koi tarikh nahin di gayi hai,lekin lekh mein aaye dev anand aur geeta bali ke zikra se lagta hai ki 1955-56 ke aaspaas likha gaya hoga.is pustak mein unke aur bhi do lekh hain.agar koi unhen yahan …


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Sunday 100 : First Love

Sorry about a late Sunday 100… took time to recover from the self flagellation of the weekend movie watching.

First Krazzy4, then Jalsa, and then U, Me aur Hum.

So this Sunday 100, which could have been crazy or kinky now gets mushy.

So here goes…

(you know something? it’s not my mistake - because our dear Honhaar Goonda’s AWOL is messing the series).

So this week the topic is :

Remember those Archies/Hallmark cards you have fastidiously handpicked, remember those love track CDs you have painstakingly compiled, remember those poor attempts at being Keats… and, you know something? The topic is —

First Love

Sunday 100: Money

Most of you would have been relieved that there is no Sunday 100 today, but as I have said previously that I will keep posting Sunday 100 till it is a successful phenomena. That is one of my target.

So, I was doing some brain storming, to make this a bit interesting and ‘Money’ came to my mind first. If I give One Rupee to everyone who submits a Sunday 100 story, then would I get a lot of responses? I don’t know. First of all, One Rupee, is nothing in today’s term. Why do we still have a One Rupee coin? Perhaps, it does have a value. To make a 100 rupees, you will need one hundred one rupee coins. And secondly, this is for fun, not for…

But Money can make people do weird stuffs. It can make you write a Sunday 100, egoistic, forget your tradition/values, etc, etc. …


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