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Director:
Guru Dutt
Writers:
Abrar Alvi (dialogue)
Abrar Alvi (screenplay)
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Genre:
Musical | Romance more
Plot:
Suresh Sinha, who comes from a poor background, makes it big in the Bombay-based Indian film industry as a Director especially for the movie "Zordar"... more | add synopsis
Awards:
2 wins more
User Comments:
Surprising Bollywood Movie more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Waheeda Rehman ... Shanti
Guru Dutt ... Suresh Sinha
Kumari Naaz ... Pramila 'Pammi' Sinha (as Baby Naaz)
Johnny Walker ... Rocky
Mahesh Kaul ... Rai Bahadur B.P. Verma
Veena ... Veena B. Varma / Veena S. Sinha
Minoo Mumtaz ... Veterinarian
Nilofar (as Nilofer)
Ruby Mayer (as Sulochna Devi)
Sheelavaz (as Sheila Vaz)
Vikram Kapoor (as Bikram Kapoor)
Mehmood ... Suresh Sinha's brother
Mohan Choti
Munshi Munakka (as Munshi Munaqqa)
Haroon
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Paper Flowers
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Runtime:
148 min
Country:
India
Language:
Hindi
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
This was India's first widescreen film; it used the CinemaScope process. more
Soundtrack:
Ek Do Teen Chaar Aur Paanch more

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5 out of 5 people found the following comment useful:-
Surprising Bollywood Movie, 4 August 2004
Author: bartman_9 from Belgium

I never associated Bollywood with introspective, semi-autobiographical tragedies, but here we are: writer-director-star Guru Dutt plays Suresh Singh, a highly successful movie-director who discovers a new star Shanti (Waheeda Rehman). The two fall in love but when he loses a custody battle with his estranged wife over his daughter, Suresh slides down a self-destructive path.

A movie like Kaagaz Ke Phool shows how wrong the stereotyped view of Bollywood-movies, as cheesy, badly made opiate for a backward people, really is. This is a highly intelligent, deeply personal movie with strong performances, assured visual direction, great cinematography and beautiful songs. It's not perfect: it drags somewhat in the middle and the broad comic relief feels out of place, but this movie about movies that can hold its own against any version of A Star is Born.

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