It was perhaps the greatest tragedy of the silver screen ever played in real life, the story of a troubled soul who strived to convey his struggles of real life through his movies—Vasanth Kumar Shivshankar Padukone, more popularly known as Guru Dutt. The legendary actor/director not only enriched the Hindi film industry repertoire through his soul-stirring stories during his life but also brought the taboo subject of mental health into the public domain in his death.

Guru Dutt directed just eight films in his whole career, which was brought to an abrupt end with his tragic death in 1964. Starting from a typical masala film, Baazi (1951), produced under the banner of Navketan Films, his cinematic........

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