Guru Dutt Quotes

“Bhootnath also comes to see that exploitation lies at the base of all relationships around him. The small fish are devoured by the big fish.”
― Arun Khopkar, Guru Dutt: A Tragedy in Three Acts

“underlines the fundamental conflict that romanticism is built on—the conflict between the individual and society.”
― Arun Khopkar, Guru Dutt: A Tragedy in Three Acts

“The intensity of emotion that is poured out in the song Jala do, jala do, isey phunk dalo yeh duniya is not directed against specific individuals gathered there to trample on him and worship his statue. The venom is against a social system that profits from human suffering.”
― Arun Khopkar, Guru Dutt: A Tragedy in Three Acts

“Though most commodity film-makers, with both eyes on the box office, had been abusing music, Ghatak and Guru Dutt showed that it was possible to use music as an integral part of the whole. They demonstrated that cinema was not a medium meant exclusively to reflect reality or to communicate ‘messages’. It was a medium that imposed its own rhythmic patterns of expression.”
― Arun Khopkar, Guru Dutt: A Tragedy in Three Acts

“A work of art takes us away from our daily life for some time. On returning to life, it is not easy to discover and measure the change that the work of art has wrought in us. Yet, it is precisely the extent and quality of this change that gives us a measure of the extent of the truth that exists in the work of art. To”
― Arun Khopkar, Guru Dutt: A Tragedy in Three Acts

“work of art is not a hypothesis worked out into a neat theorem. It is full of contradictions and inconsistencies.”
― Arun Khopkar, Guru Dutt: A Tragedy in Three Acts