Abstract
In Guru Dutt's experimental song sequences in films such as Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool, we see an expressive linkage between the story of the frustrated and talented artist and the form of picturisation of the song. These songs, which, in the poetics of Bombay's cinema tradition, are meant to represent the transforming emotional states of a film's protagonists, become visual, lyrical and musical representations of those very states in the psyche of their artist-heroes through Guru Dutt's re-choreographing of visual expectations. The experimental form of the song illustrates the creative struggle of the protagonist at the same time as it represents a real life effort on the part of the director to re-imagine the formula of an aspect of his medium.
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