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If not completely satisfied with the results in the film he was making, he scrapped the project, irrespective of the amount of money and time gone into it. This explains the large number of incomplete films he left behind at his death.

Grandaughter Gauri Dutt (Daughter of Arun Dutt) is a upcoming Bollywood actress who has assisted film director Anurag Kashyap. Her sister Karuna Dutt also works with Anurag Kashyap and is a upcoming Bollywood director.

One of India's most respected directors working in commercial films. Pyaasa (1957), Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) and Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (1962) are classics and masterpieces of Hindi cinema.

According to his sister Lalitha, at the age of fourteen years, Dutt would use his fingers to shape images on a wall lit by the flickering light of their grandmother's lamp as she performed the evening prayers.

In childhood, he spent a great deal of time with his mother's cousin, Balakrishna B. Benegal (known to the family as "Bakutmama") who painted cinema posters. Bakutmama's nephew is the Indian film director Shyam Benegal.

Credited with giving writer Abrar Alvi, cinematographer V.K. Murthy, choreographer/actress Zohra Sehgal, director Raj Khosla, and most famously the actors Johnny Walker and Waheeda Rehman their big breaks. They all made their debuts in his films, and they all went on to become big names in Bollywood.

Second cousin twice removed of Amrita Rao. Her grandfather and Guru Dutt were second cousins.

He persuaded his uncle Benegal to photograph him performing a snake dance. The dance was later performed at a gathering of Saraswat Brahmins in Calcutta, for which he was given a prize of five rupees in cash.

Sister Lalita Lamji starred in Taare Zameen Par as herself.

Anurag Kashyap was planning a film on Guru Dutt in 2009. He spoke to Aamir Khan who agreed to the film. The project was shelved.

He had a short-lived career in writing short stories for The Illustrated Weekly, a local weekly English magazine, in 1947.

He was a good student, but he never went to college because of financial problems. Instead, he joined the performing arts troupe of Uday Shankar, the older brother of the better-known singer Ravi Shankar.

Initially named Vasanth Kumar on his birth, at the suggestion of his mother's elder brother; but after a childhood accident, he was renamed Guru Dutt, which was felt to be a more auspicious name.

He had two younger brothers, Atmaram and Devidas. Devidas is more popularly known as producer, director Devi Dutt and is married to producer Chanda Dutt. Their son Sanjay Dutt worked as a production assistant in the film Bhavna (1984). Guru Dutt has a younger sister, Lalitha Lajmi (whose daughter is the Indian film director, Kalpana Lajmi). He had a younger brother, Shashidhar, who died at the age of seven months old.

Father of director Arun Dutt.

Director Atma Ram is his younger brother. Atma Ram's daughter Anjali married Leena Chandavarkar's brother Anil. They had a daughter named Akshata Chandavarkar. Anil passed away in 1985 when he committed suicide.

Father of director Tarun Dutt.

Daughter Neena is married to director Ismail Memon and Shano ( Mehmood' s sister) son Naushad Memon.

Grandson named Aman Memon. Daughter Nina's son.

In 1964, he was going to direct a film titled " Sheesha E Dil" starring Himself, Mala Sinha and wife Geeta Dutt's sister Amrita Bose. He was going to launch her in films. The movie was shelves once he passed away.

Rajesh Khanna movie "Khudai" was based on Guru Dutt's life.

In the late 50's, Guru Dutt had launched a film titled,"Raaz". The film starred Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Rehman, Directed by Shashi Bhushan. After 10 days, Guru Dutt decided to shelved the film. Then in the early 60's, he relaunched another film titled "Raaz" with himself, Waheeda Rehman and Rehman. After shooting 12 reels for unknown reasons,he shelved the film. The movie was based on the novel "The Woman In White". Raj Khosla who was a assistant on Raaz, decided to use the same script and made "Woh Kaun Thi".

Guru Dutt's daughter Nina Memon is a pop singer. She debuted her album titled "Pal" in 2006. Nina sung cover versions of her mother Geeta Dutt's songs "Babu ji Dheere Chalna" and "Mera Naam Chin Chin Chu". Guru Dutt's granddaughter Nafeesa Memon starred in the video "Mera Naam Chin Chin Chu".

Brother named Vijay .

Wife Geeta's nephew is singer, composer Gautam Roy.

Was listed amongst Asia's top-25 greatest actors in a list compiled by CNN in 2012.

Despite being more renowned as a filmmaker, Dutt surprisingly never received a single Filmfare nomination in the Best Director category during his lifetime.