I have a newfound appreciation for Guru Dutt films and it's very sad that he and his wife died so young. He died of lethal combination of sleeping pills and alcohol or possible suicide at age 39, while Geeta Dutt died of complications from cirrhosis at age 41.TikiSoo wrote: ↑March 21st, 2023, 7:09 am Thanks for the descriptions of those movies, umop. I am very much into Hindi movies and unfortunately the only one my library has is Pyaasa. From your description I'd be most interested in the last one for it's historical bent.
I still haven't found a good streaming site for new & old Indian movies, only HBO/Netflix seem to offer a few.
Being a Bengali, I was partial to Geeta Dutt's music and was always told Guru Dutt ruined her life and she died young as a result. I can now see that it was just two dysfunctional people living in an era and culture where mental health and addiction was hushed up. Two great artists were lost and that saddens me. Geeta Dutt would have been had a career similar to Lata Mangeshkar or Asha Bhosle. Hardly anyone was making serious and artistic Hindi movies like Guru Dutt in that era.
If you use Amazon for streaming they have channel add-ons for different services like Showtime, Paramount+, Britbox, etc. There is an option which has Indian movies and televisions shows called Eros Now. You can try it for free 7 days and then it's $4.99 a month.
It's got old and new movies most major Indian languages like Bengali, Hindi, Marathi etc. The trouble is finding things, but that is typical of Amazon's video offerings.
I thought my parents would like the channel and subscribed for a few months, but they still ended up watching movies on YouTube. I cancelled a Dish Network package of Indian channels because they stopped watching that and saved 100s of dollars. Last week my mother mentioned wanting me to get her an Indian movie streaming option.