<p>"A Heart as Big as the World: The Films of Guru Dutt" (till October 11) is a compliment of the selection of the 47th New York Film Festival by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Indo-American Arts Council.<br /><br />This is the first American retrospective on Dutt, featuring six films spanning his career as a director, two as an actor and producer and a documentary on Dutt.<br /><br />Most films have never screened in the US and those that have, have not been seen in decades, the organisers said.<br /><br />Throughout his career he turned out crime thrillers ("Baazi"), screwball comedies ("Mr and Mrs '55"), pirate swashbucklers ("Baaz"), and melodramas ("Chaudhvin Ka Chand") with equal verve.<br /><br />Especially in his two masterpieces, "Pyaasa" (Thirst) and "Kaagaz Ke Phool" (Paper Flowers), both featuring Dutt in the lead roles, the space between creator and creation seems almost nonexistent.<br /><br />His illustrious career was tragically cut short by his suicide in 1964, when he was only 39.<br />Besides these films, other works of Dutt to be shown are "Aar-Paar" and "Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam" besides a documentary on him by Nasreen Munni Kabir named "In Search of Guru Dutt".</p>
<p>"A Heart as Big as the World: The Films of Guru Dutt" (till October 11) is a compliment of the selection of the 47th New York Film Festival by The Film Society of Lincoln Center and the Indo-American Arts Council.<br /><br />This is the first American retrospective on Dutt, featuring six films spanning his career as a director, two as an actor and producer and a documentary on Dutt.<br /><br />Most films have never screened in the US and those that have, have not been seen in decades, the organisers said.<br /><br />Throughout his career he turned out crime thrillers ("Baazi"), screwball comedies ("Mr and Mrs '55"), pirate swashbucklers ("Baaz"), and melodramas ("Chaudhvin Ka Chand") with equal verve.<br /><br />Especially in his two masterpieces, "Pyaasa" (Thirst) and "Kaagaz Ke Phool" (Paper Flowers), both featuring Dutt in the lead roles, the space between creator and creation seems almost nonexistent.<br /><br />His illustrious career was tragically cut short by his suicide in 1964, when he was only 39.<br />Besides these films, other works of Dutt to be shown are "Aar-Paar" and "Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam" besides a documentary on him by Nasreen Munni Kabir named "In Search of Guru Dutt".</p>
