India, Oct. 11 -- Love, loneliness, longing and everything in between was seamlessly explored by one maverick Indian filmmaker-actor: Guru Dutt. He was just 39 when he died, in 1964. Born on 9 July 1925, in Karnataka, this is his centennial birth year. And among the many tributes being showered on him, is a dantangoi performance titled Daastan-e-Guru Dutt.

The show that will be staged in the city today will be performed by Fouzia Dastango. "I'm not a film historian, so I wanted to approach this story with authenticity and respect," shares Fouzia, adding, "What inspired me to conceptualise a dastangoi performance on Guru Dutt was a deep sense of admiration, and a little ache, for a man who gave so much to Indian cinema yet never truly got...