Kaagaz Ke Phool
- Guru Dutt: Suresh Sinha
- Waheeda Rehman: Shanti
- Kumari Naaz: Pammi Sinha
- Mahesh Kaul: Rai Bahadur B.P. Verma
- Johnny Walker: Rocky
- Mehmood: Suresh's brother
Kaagaz Ke Phool (Hindi: कागज़ के फूल translated: Paper Flowers ) is a film directed by Guru Dutt from the year 1959.
Action
Suresh Sinha is a successful film director. But his love of movies, cost him his family. Wife Bina, the daughter of the wealthy Rai Bahadur Verma, separated from him. He is also forbidden to see his daughter Pammi, who was sent to a private school.
In a rainy night Suresh meets a woman named Shanti and gives her his coat. Later she goes to the film studio to return Suresh coat. Here, it interrupts accidentally shooting by running right in front of the camera. Suresh recognizes their potential to stardom and casts them in the role of Paro in the film " Devdas ".
'Devdas' is a big hit and makes Shanti a prestigious and highly acclaimed star. Shanti and Suresh, two lonely people come so closer. Your love affair is hotly debated in all the gossip columns. This has the consequence that Pammis friends they torment in school. Then Pammi Shanti tries to persuade her father to let alone to reunite their parents.
In fact obeys Shanti and throws her career back and is in a small village teacher. Suresh, now entranced between Shanti and his love for his daughter Pammi, succumbs to alcohol and crashes. Shanti is forced to continue to make films because she has a contract with the film studio.
Finally Suresh gets the chance to make a comeback film, but only if Shanti plays in the lead role. Shanti is unable to help him because he is far away from salvation.
Suresh remembers its glorious past and dies in the empty film studio in the director's chair as a lonely and forgotten man.
Background
The film's story is told as a flashback. The lyrics are from the well-known author Kaifi Azmi.
The commercial failure of the film at the box office prompted Guru Dutt, no longer to draw in his film productions responsible as a director.
The original Cinemascope negative Kaagaz Ke Phool from is damaged. There are only a few Scope copies, two of them in European television stations.
Awards
- Filmfare Award / Best Art Direction at MR Acharekar (1960 )
- Filmfare Award / Best Cinematography VK Murthy on (1960 )