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3 Baaz (1953):
Guru Dutt co-wrote, directed and starred in
this period pirate adventure, set at the time
of the Portuguese invasion of the Malabar
Coast. He played a prince opposite Geeta
Bali’s rebel pirate. One of the few light-
hearted romantic roles he played in his very
brief career.

4 Aar Paar (1954):
Not yet out of the noir mode, Guru Dutt
directed and starred in this comic crime
caper, playing Kalu, a taxi driver who gets
mixed up in a criminal enterprise and tosses
a coin to choose between the two leading
ladies, Shyama and Shakila.

5 Mr & Mrs 55 (1955):
Guru Dutt directed this romcom, playing a
struggling cartoonist, Preetam, who agrees
to a sham marriage with an heiress played
by Madhubala, to fulfil a condition in her
father’s will. The delectable OP Nayyar
score added to the film’s charm, though the
taming-of-the-shrew kind of plot seems a bit
dated now.

6 CID (1956):
Guru Dutt produced this dark thriller
directed by his assistant Raj Khosla. Dev
Anand played a cop investigating the
murder of a newspaper editor who was
about to expose the criminal links of an
influential man. Shakila played the romantic
lead and Waheeda Rehman a femme fatale
in her Hindi movie debut.

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