Kolkata, Nov. 9 -- Guru Dutt's 1955 romantic satire "Mr. & Mrs. '55" stood as one of Indian cinema's earliest and most sophisticated experiments in visual storytelling, film scholar Professor Moinak Biswas said, reflecting on the late filmmaker, at the 31st Kolkata International Film Festival (KIFF).
"In Mr. & Mrs. '55 - it's a very interesting experiment with vision; the vision is often blocked, redirected, re-doubled for mirrors, frames within frames, a power frame within a film, within a larger film frame."He said that Guru Dutt emerged during a moment of renewal in Indian filmmaking, when the collapse of traditional studios like New Theatres, Prabhat and Bombay Talkies gave rise to independent productions and a freer artistic atmospher...