All the songs that Guru Dutt, the great experimentalist in the history of Indian cinema, shot in his films narrate his biography. His biggest creative support and the most trusted writer of his films, Abrar Alvi narrates the story of Guru Dutt in the book 'Ten Years with Guru Dutt: Abrar Alvi's Journey'.The book contains a conscious account of Abrar's experience with Guru Dutt, the introducer of cinemascope in India. He recalls about guru Dutt that the man carried an extraordinary sense to catch a talent and overwhelm it to the extravagant level of his trust. And the history has witnessed the result of this trust in the form of Aar Paar, Mr. and Mrs. 55, Pyaasa, Kagaz ke Phool, Chaudahvin ka Chand and Sahib Bibi aur Ghulam.
Abrar considers his ten years of association with this cinema stalwart as the most creative years of his life. He explains the nature of guru Dutt and his uncompromising endeavours, which of course did not pay him at the very instance but placed him to the unforgotable height in world of cinema. Abrar makes an effort to break all the popular tales of Guru Dutt's romance and tries to bing the notice of the reader to his plain, naive and creative thought process.
The book has been compiled by Sathya Saran, the editor of the DNA supplement Me.
