130: Death of the Author: Guru Dutt’s Pyaasa
With the Criterion Channel now streaming the work of Guru Dutt, we discuss the acclaimed director’s most iconic film, Pyaasa.
Show notes:
- We upgraded our mic setup
- Criterion Channel’s The World of Guru Dutt
- Past episodes: Dev Anand’s Bombay Noir and Noir ‘58
- Mr. Criterion: Do Bigha Zamin and Shree 420
- Bollywood doesn’t need Western validation, but accessibility is nice
- Pyaasa
- The Goddess Who Carries The Burden of The World, Mother India
- Restoration in 2015
- “All-Time 100 Movies”
- Pyaasa’s Sight and Sound votes
- Comparison to Orson Welles
- “Jinhen Naaz Hai Hind Par”
- Ten years after Partition
- “The Death of the Author” by Roland Barthes
- The “starving artist”
- “I Threw It On The Ground”
- “Hum Aap Ki Ankhon Mein”
Next time: car accident movies
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