"Director: Guru Dutt"

• Kaagaz Ke Phool | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

• Pyaasa | DVD | (07/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  PYAASA is the story of the life and loves of an unsuccessful poet who could achieve neither fame nor prosperity in his lifetime. Vijay is a poet whose poems none of the old traditional publishers accept. They want poems on love not on hunger. Vijay's home life is miserable. Since leaving College he has not settled down to any job. His brothers taunt and insult him and sell the paper on which his poems are written as waste papers to a grocer for a few annas. Vijay in trying to trace the papers finds that a woman has taken them away from the grocer. He then comes across the streetwalker who had taken away his manuscript and remembered his songs by heart. He tries to retrieve his manuscript but fails. Meanwhile Vijay goes to the annual function of his college to recite some poems of his. There he meets Meena the girl with whom he had a flaming romance in his College days. Meena is married to Mr. Ghosh a publisher who offers him a job in his establishment.However the job does not last for long as the publisher gets suspicious of Meena's attachment to Vijay and the poet is once again without a job. While still jobless Vijay learns of the death of his mother - the breaking of the last link with his home. He is desperate and depressed. A friend misleads him and gets him drunk and then takes him to the house of a dancing girl. There Vijay witnesses the tragedy of the fallen women and feels for them. In the same locality he again comes across the streetwalker who sensing his frustration gives him her sympathy and encouragement. But Vijay tells her that he has made up his mind to end his life. The streetwalker puts him to sleep but finds him missing the next morning. After a few days the newspaper announces the news of his death. After his death his poems are published and become a great success. Vijay wins posthumous fame.PYAASA is the undying Spirit of man of the hopes and fears the frustrations and ambitions and the craving for love and friendship that is in every human heart.

• Aar Paar | DVD | (05/12/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  This is the story of Kalu a former taxi driver who is released from prison after a speeding offence. Follow his journey after finding himself homeless finding love and also finding himself involved in a planned Bank robbery.

• Baaz | DVD | (14/10/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in the 16th Century India Baaz is the story of Prince Ravi (Guru Dutt) who lives with his mother the Queen in Malabar. Since the Portuguese traders have practically begun to rule the state the royal family has been reduced to mere figureheads. Nisha (Geeta Bali) is the daughter of a revolutionary who along with her father is arrested by the Portuguese and sold as slaves on a ship. Witnessing the killing of her father she becomes a revolutionary herself fights the Portuguese takes over the ship and ultimately becomes the leader of her group. Each time she attacks a Baaz (falcon) comes and sits on her shoulder and hence her group is named BAAZ. Meanwhile Prince Ravi is travelling by a Portuguese ship to Portugal to get crowned by their Queen. Nisha and her group attack the ship but Ravi is unharmed because he is Indian. Nisha also realises that he is the same man she had met on an earlier occassion when sparks flew... The attraction ignited again is mutual and Ravi not only romances her but also helps her to come ashore and start to fight against the Portuguese not revealing his royal identity. Will Nisha ever get to know? How will she reconcile her love and her mission?

• Mr And Mrs 55 | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

• Mr And Mrs 55 | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Preetam (Guru Dutt) a poor and struggling cartoonist living off his friends meets Anita (Madhubala) and falls in love with her. Anita is a rich heiress who is controlled by two opposing forces. One her aunt Sita Devi (Lalita Pawar) a crusader for women's rights and other Anita's dead father who has stipulated in his will that Anita will inherit his fortune only if she marries within a month of turning 21. In a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too plan Sita Devi plots to have a marraige of convenience for Anita. She hires Preetam to marry Anita unaware he is in love with her. When Anita finds out that Preetam has sold his services as her hired husband she is deeply shattered and disappointed. In spite of this the marraige takes place but Preetam frustrated at not being able to see Anita after the marraige carries her off to his brother's place. Sita Devi rescues Anita and divorce proceedings begin. However Anita now rediscovers her earlier love for Preetam. Will Preetam and Anita be united? What about Anita's fortune will it be sacrificed at the altar of love? Mr. & Mrs. 55 one of Guru Dutt's early successes is a sophisticated romantic comedy full of sparkling dialogue and fine comic performances. Apart from one of O.P. Nayyar's most successful musical scores including some of Geeta Dutt's greatest hits ""Jaane kahan mera jigar"" ""Thandi hawa kaali ghata"" the film has another highlight - Preetam's cartoons were actually drawn by India's top-most cartoonist R.K. Laxman.

• Baaz | DVD | (18/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

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• Pyaasa (1957) | DVD | (15/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Pyaasa is the story of a young poet Vijay's search for love and recognition. Rejected by his own brothers he leaves home to live on the streets of Calcutta where he finds his Gulab a prostitute and an ardent devotee of Vijay's poetry. Soon love blossoms between them. But in a bizzare turn of events a despairing Vijay tries to end his life. Though he survives he's reported dead. A grieving Gulab publishes his poems which become a huge success. When Vijay returns to claim his work no one recognizes him and he is sent to a lunatic asylum. Does Vijay finally get the recognition and love that he's craved for all his life? Pyaasa is a Guru Dutt classic immortal not only for intensely moving performances by Waheeda Rehman and Guru Dutt and some of S.D. Burman's most memorable compositions but also Sahir Ludhianvi's poetry - Yeh Mehlon Yeh Thakton Jaane Woh Kaise Log The Jinke and Jinhe Naaz Hai Hind Par Woh Kahan Hai.

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  Kaalu (Guru Dutt) is a jobless common man aimlessly roaming the streets with no real ambition in life. He does small odd jobs and one day he takes up a job in a garage. There he meets and fall in love with Nikki who is the garage owner's daughter. Meanwhile he also meets a dancer (Shakila) in a bar where he goes to deliver a message to Captain from one of his jail mates. He asks Nikki's father for her hand in marriage who refuses as he thinks Kaalu as a worthless thug. Dejected he goes to see Captain and tells him of his dream to buy a taxi and become a taxi driver. Captains offers to buy him the taxi on the condition that it will be available for his use whenever he needs it. Kaalu agrees not knowing that Captain intends to use the taxi for smuggling. Kaalu then asks Nikki to elope with him. Nikki refuses. One day he finds out about Captain's nefarious activities and refuses to be a part of it. He is captured and about to be killed when Shakila tells Captain to force Kaalu to smuggle instead of killing him.

• Baaz | DVD | (02/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Set in the 16th Century India, Baaz is the story of Prince Ravi (Guru Dutt) who lives with his mother the Queen, in Malabar. Since the Portuguese traders have practically begun to rule the state, the royal family has been reduced to mere figureheads. Nisha (Geeta Bali) is the daughter of a revolutionary who, along with her father, is arrested by the Portuguese and sold as slaves on a ship. Witnessing the killing of her father, she becomes a revolutionary herself, fights the Portuguese, takes over the ship and ultimately becomes the leader of her group. Each time she attacks, a Baaz (falcon) comes and sits on her shoulder and hence her group is named BAAZ. Meanwhile, Prince Ravi is travelling by a Portuguese ship to Portugal to get crowned by their Queen. Nisha and her group attack the ship but Ravi is unharmed because he is Indian. Nisha also realises that he is the same man she had met on an earlier occassion when sparks flew... The attraction, ignited again, is mutual and Ravi not only romances her but also helps her to come ashore and start to fight against the Portuguese, not revealing his royal identity. Will Nisha ever get to know? How will she reconcile her love and her mission? Baaz marked the beginning of Guru Dutt's remarkable career as an actor and filmmaker and his long association with music director O.P. Nayyar, who scored for this film evergreen hits like Zara Saamne Aa, Har Zabaan Ruki and the Talat Mehmood song Mujhe Dekho Hasrat Ki.

• Kaagaz Ke Phool | DVD | (22/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

  The movie begins in the dying moments in the life of a famous film director played by Guru Dutt. The movie then moves to the beginning of his career where he meets Shanti only a debutante and unsure of everything she does. His growing fascination for her prompts him to cast her in his movies. Her growing independence and stature and his subsequent decay into mediocrity the tension between their personal feelings and their professional goals sets the stage for the rest of the movie. The movie has several generally acclaimed songs by Geeta Dutt which are inextricable from the movie plot itself.