Dastan-e Guru Dutt

Date and Time: Saturday, 11 October 2025, 7pm

Duration: 2 hours

Entry: Tickets priced at ₹200 onwards, Available at:
Online: BookMyShow 
Offline: at the Habitat Programmes desk
Note: For 16 years old and above. 

Venue: The Stein Auditorium, India Habitat Centre (IHC), Lodhi Road, New Delhi-110003, India
Parking: Gate No. 1, 2 & 3 (Cars), Gate No. 2 (Bikes & Bicycles)
Venue Info: Events | About | Map | Nearest Metro Stations:
'Jor Bagh(Yellow Line)Exit Gate-1' - Walk Direction
'Khan Market(Violet Line)'
Area: Lodhi Road Area Events

Event Description: Dastan-e Guru Dutt (Hindustani/120 mins with interval) 

A Dastangoi presentation that places Guru Dutt amid the big four of the 1950s—Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, and Mehboob Khan—charting Bombay noir, its rain-lit streets, and the ache of homelessness as the city’s fatal music. It recalls P.C. Barua’s romantic modernity and the studio era of Himanshu Rai and V. Shantaram, showing how systems forged auteurs. It walks with Balraj Sahni, K. A. Abbas, Indian People's Theatre Association, and the Progressive Writers' Association, where people’s theatre soldered politics to popular feeling. It holds, in one breath, Geeta Roy’s asphyxiation, Waheeda Rehman’s ascent, and Guru’s fracturing intimacies. It sings Sahir, S. D. Burman, Majrooh, and Naushad, where the Hindi film lyric minted a new, durable modernity of love. It converses with Ghatak and Ray, widening cinema’s grief and grace. 

Written, Directed and Performed by Mahmood Farooqui

Produced by Anusha Rizvi

Presented by Dastangoi Collective 

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