Dastan-e Guru Dutt (Hindustani/120 mins with interval) Written, Directed and Performed by Mahmood Farooqui. Produced by Anusha Rizvi. A Dastangoi presentation that places Guru Dutt amid the big four of the 1950s—Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, and Mehboob Khan—charting Bombay noir, its rain-lit streets, and the ache of homelessness as the city’s fatal music. It recalls P.C. Barua’s romantic modernity and the studio era of Himanshu Rai and V. Shantaram, showing how systems forged auteurs. It walks with Balraj Sahni, K. A. Abbas, Indian People's Theatre Association, and the Progressive Writers' Association, where people’s theatre soldered politics to popular feeling. It holds, in one breath, Geeta Roy’s asphyxiation, Waheeda Rehman’s ascent, and Guru’s fracturing intimacies. It sings Sahir, S. D. Burman, Majrooh, and Naushad, where the Hindi film lyric minted a new, durable modernity of love. It converses with Ghatak and Ray, widening cinema’s grief and grace. Prod. Dastangoi Collective. Tickets at Rs.500, Rs.350 & Rs.200 are available online on bookmyshow.com and at the Habitat Programmes desk.