As our part Retro review The series, we re -evaluate the reflection of a re -e -gesture reflection of the Kagaaz flowers, the direction of Guru Dutt, and their tragic end.

• Retro review: Kagaz flower (1959)
• Starred: Guru Dutt, Wahida Rehman, Johnny Walker
• Director: Guru Dutt
• Music/song: SD Burman, Kaifi Azmi
• Boxes-office status: Flop (now a cult classic)
• Where to see: YouTube
• Why to see: For your intensive study of fame and failure
• moral of the story: Pain is real, but it is not the end of life

Films often aim to entertain or incite introspection, and Guru Dutt’s direction visit shows this duality.

Start with crowded hits like ‘Stool‘(1951) and’across‘(1954), Dutt initially concluded as the master of commercial cinema. Nevertheless, as a deep sensitive artist, he craved to detect the location of the artist in the deep questions, its meanings, purpose and a flawless society.

Inspired by European filmmakers such as Ingmar Bergman and Federico Felini, whose narratives left a profound impact, Guru Dutt took advantage of the success of films like ‘Mr. and Mrs.’ 55 (1955) to carry forward more introspect stories. The result was two cinematic masterpieces: ‘Love‘(1957) and’Papers(1959).

Mainly, both films examine the human reaction to the meaning and rejection of life. Within a short period, Dutt offered the opposite answer, the predecessor of individual tragedies with ‘paper flowers’ that will mark their own lives

The same question, different answers

In ‘Love‘, Vijay (Guru Dutt), a struggling poet ignored by a materialistic society, gives a defective answer. In the climax of the film, he appears in his memorial when he is considered dead, and ridicune people to celebrate his famous poem so far. Standing in the door of the theater, provoking the silhouette like a Christ, Vijay abandoned the world’s hollow praise, announced, “If this world is found. Even if I get this whole world, what is it really?), For victory, society deviates humanity, waste its belief.

Facing anger in anger, after finishing his hypocrisy, Vijay rejected the suffocation criteria of the society. “Burn it, turn it into ash, this is your world, handle it yourself, it is no use for me,” he declares.

Asked why he is throwing it away, he replies, “I will not find peace here.” Choosing authenticity on the fame, he walks with Gulabo to sunset, a sex worker who symbolizes real humanity.

,Love The end has been refused to crucify by a selfish world of victory, bent with its rules and expectations. This is the way to say: “I spit on your face.”

Still, ‘in’Kagaz flower ‘Dutt provides a different response, denying his own optimism, “I leave.”

Central base of ‘Kagaz flower ‘ That is the same: rejection of an artist by society. In classic, his descendants come in ignorance after the height of success as a accurate director of blockbusters.

Nayak, Suresh Sinha, deal with the crisis? Instead of defying society, Sinha (Guru Dutt) accepts necklace and spiral in darkness, embraces loneliness and alcohol.

In the climax of the film, she runs away from Shanti (Wahida Rehman), the woman who loves her, and gives a glimpse of hope. While living in poverty, Bhasma with failure and shame, Sinha returns to the empty film studio, where he once ruled. There, in a heartbreaking scene, he dies alone on the director’s chair, a broken person defeated by society and defeats his own failures.

From optimism to self-destruction

,Love The victory symbolizes the rebellion of the artist, who refuses to compromise the integrity for social acceptance. This is an optimistic, almost romantic vision of the artist’s ability to rise above the world’s flaws. In contrast, ‘Kagaz flower ‘ There is a deep, more introspection exploration of despair and depression that eventually leads to self-destruction. This change reflects the developed world vision of Dutt.

In ‘Love‘, Dutt belongs to the questions of existence such as the famous philosopher Albert Camus. He accepts the absence of life, but refuses to be defeated by it. He decides to move forward defensively, to find meaning in his struggle. In contrast, ‘in’Pagazine flowers’, He embraces nasting – the idea that life is absurd, not worth living, and is the only way to resign.

How did Guru Dutt go from disobedience to surrender within two years?

A deep sensitive person, Guru Dutt overdated the bullets during the filming of “”.Love‘, Narrowly escape blindness. The significant and commercial success of the film failed to save him, which by then deepened in depression and alcohol. ,Kagaz flower ‘ There is a tragic echo of Dutt’s last years, predicting a disturbing self-performance.

Every view of ‘Kagaz flower’ Dutt has a glimpse in his mind. Just before the end, when he meets peace after a long break, he picks up a glass in the festival. “When the effect of all other intoxicants – fame, success, wealth, love – said, this is the only thing that remains,” they say. This is a cool penetration of their problems – a fracture wedding, their growing proximity marks for Wahida Rehman, and their addiction.

In another scene, the footsteps of Sinha on a beach are erased by waves, reflecting the fleeting nature of human impression on time. When her daughter comes to see her, Sinha develops her, refuses to present her to a broken, defeated man- “Kya leke Milan Dunia SE, Tear Shiv Kuch Pass Nahi(I have to offer the world, except tears – I have nothing else). ,

In the last moments, Sinha runs away from peace, unlike Vijay’s hugging love in search of peace, who selects isolation. This is an alternative that underlines Sinha’s pessimism: in the end, no one lives. In the background, Mohammad Rafi’s voice rises to a crassendo, “Fly, don’t sit in the gardens where only paper flowers are of Bloomtilab, the world, bidhade sabi, acquitted, acquitted.”

Celebrating Guru Dutt’s legacy

Guru Dutt turned 100 on this 9 July. But, in 1964, at the age of 39, he died of an overdose, widely considered, in a ghost parallel to Suresh Sinha’s death. Their sad end shows’Papers‘As a painful dialogue in Guru Dutt’s mind, his struggle with personal and professional rejection, and his last resignation.

Through ‘Love‘ And ‘Kagaz flower ‘He naked his soul, invited the audience to introspect, faced questions that harassed him: what is the purpose of life, and is it worth moving forward? Their separate answers underline the permanent dilemma of humanity.

Although he surrendered to disappointment, his uncontrolled honesty, cinematic talent inspired us to embrace disregard, which led to our own legacy. In the birth centenary of Guru Dutt, Vijay, the greatest tribute to the great filmmaker, must shout as a role model of humanity, and show the middle finger for the struggles of life. ,What is this world with Jai too,