Cinemaazi remembers Guru Dutt on his death anniversary
10 Oct 1964
Born on 9 July, 1925 in Padukone as Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone in Padukone, Karnataka, his family later shited to Kolkata. After finishing his education in Kolkata, he initially wanted to pursue journalism. But changing curses, he ended up at Almora in Uday Shankar's School of Dancing and Choreography. From there he went back to Kolkata to work as a telephone operator. But his heat was in cinema, and soon he was in Pune, joining Prabhat Studios as an actor. The first film he worked in was Vishram Bedekar's Lakharani (1945).
