Director's cut

BOOK EXTRACT

Early in the discussions on Pyaasa, it was decided that the film would have a kotha as a background. There was only one problem: Guru Dutt had never been to a kotha... he was not the type at all. I had been to a kotha once, as a lark, with Raj Khosla, while we were both assistants to Guru Dutt. Raj had taken me one evening saying,