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Re: [a_film_by] Guru Dutt & others/ Bollywood recommendations?

Some like Dutt more than I do, but his films are at the very least quite
interesting and worth seeing. They are often stylistically
heterogeneous, which may be part of my problem; I'm often thought to
place too high a priority on unity. I've only seen a few by Raj Kapoor,
but prefer them. Anyway by far my favorite Dutt of the five I've seen is
"Pyaasa." Here are the five I've seen in approximate order of preference
along with the url to very short capsule reviews I wrote, but they're
all of interest.

- Fred
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Pyaasa (Eternal Thirst):
http://65.201.198.5/movies/capsules/21216_ETERNAL_THIRST_PYAASA

Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers):
http://65.201.198.5/movies/capsules/21174_PAPER_FLOWERS_KAAGAZ_KE_PHOOL

Aar Paar (Cupid's Arrow):
http://65.201.198.5/movies/capsules/21199_CUPIDS_ARROW_AAR_PAAR_ACROSS_THE_HEART

Jaal (The Net) http://65.201.198.5/movies/capsules/21245_NET_THE_NET_JAAL

Baazi: A Game of Chance:
http://65.201.198.5/movies/capsules/21244_GAME_OF_CHANCE_THE_GAMBLE_BAAZI
Sat Feb 21, 2004 2:27 pm

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Retrospective at Paris Centre Pompidou of Indian popular cinema, including 50's classics by Guru Dutt, Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy, Mehboob Khan and V. Shantaram,... 		Maxime Renaudin
jaloysius56
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1:41 pm

Maxime ... I haven't watched it yet, but a cinephile acquaintance (who's Indian) lent me a DVD copy of Guru Dutt's KAAGAZ KE PHOOL (1959) with extremely high...
Zach Campbell
rashomon82
Offline Send Email 		Feb 21, 2004
1:52 pm

... Haven't seen the Guru Dutt title that Zach recommended (someone put it on their 2002 Sight & Sound ten-best list), but PYASSA is worth seeing. Not a great...
Dan Sallitt
sallitt1
Offline Send Email 		Feb 21, 2004
2:13 pm

Some like Dutt more than I do, but his films are at the very least quite interesting and worth seeing. They are often stylistically heterogeneous, which may be...
Fred Camper
fredcamper
Offline Send Email 		Feb 21, 2004
2:26 pm

Now I know why I couldn't find a Chireader.com review for PYAASA -- it was listed as ETERNAL THIRST! Too bad about that print with no subtitles for the songs...
alsolikelife
Offline Send Email 		Feb 21, 2004
7:30 pm

... Most DVDs of Indian films have the same affliction: no subtitles for the songs. So much of the meaning of the films is in the song lyrics that this is a...
Joseph Kaufman
joka13us
Offline Send Email 		Feb 22, 2004
2:26 am

Maxime, could you please post the list of films being shown at this retrospective? Of Dutt, I have only seen PYAASA and I think is a masterpiece. Related to my...
alsolikelife
Offline Send Email 		Feb 21, 2004
6:47 pm

... films being shown at this retrospective? http://www.centrepompidou.fr/Pompidou/Manifs.nsf/Actualites/142D35CD4 ...
Maxime Renaudin
jaloysius56
Offline Send Email 		Feb 21, 2004
7:51 pm

Maxime, you are one lucky grumble grumble grumble... Just as a follow up, I want to report on PYAASA, which I watched last week on a bad second generation copy...
alsolikelife
Offline Send Email 		Feb 27, 2004
6:56 pm

... Amrohi directed PAKEEZAH, right? Is that the film you're discussing? PYASSA doesn't seem too postmodern to me. - Dan...
Dan Sallitt
sallitt1
Offline Send Email 		Feb 27, 2004
7:41 pm

Well it ain't no Resnais or Marker or Tarantino or whoever, but perhaps along the continuum of Bollywood history it strikes me as an instance where the film...
alsolikelife
Offline Send Email 		Feb 27, 2004
8:00 pm

... I was just asking which film you were referring to, because you mentioned PYASSA (which is a Guru Dutt film) but talked about Amrohi (who directed...
Dan Sallitt
sallitt1
Offline Send Email 		Feb 27, 2004
9:34 pm

oh did I get my P-AH's mixed up? I was talking about PAKEEZAH the whole time. PYAASA is not post-modern... though it is self- referential......
Kevin Lee
alsolikelife
Offline Send Email 		Feb 27, 2004
9:55 pm
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