Baazi

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Trivia

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• This was Guru Dutt's first film as producer and director. Dev Anand played the lead role in the film fulfilling a promise he and Guru Dutt had made to each other at the beginning of their careers. They had gotten to know each other when they had worked together in the film "Hum Ek Hain" (1946).[1]
• This was the debut film of actress Kalpana Kartik (born Mona Singha). She fell in love with her co-star Dev Anand during the film's making and got married to him during the making of another of their films, "Taxi Driver" (1954). Kartik's short film career spanned six years and comprised six films, all of them with Dev Anand. She retired after the birth of their son Suneil Anand in 1956. Her last film was "Nau Do Gyarah" (1957).[2][3]
• Raj Khosla was an assistant director to Guru Dutt in his first four films as a director - this film, "Jaal" (1952), "Baaz" (1953) and "Aar Paar" (1954). He went on to direct the first film Guru Dutt produced but did not direct, "C.I.D." (1956). Khosla debuted as a director in "Milan" (1955).[4][5][6][7][8]
• While travelling on a BEST bus in Bombay, Balraj Sahni, the writer of this film, came across a conductor regaling passengers with his witticisms. Sahni found out that the young conductor's name was Badruddin Jamaluddin Qazi and invited him to audition with the director Guru Dutt for the role of a drunk in the film. Badruddin was so convincing in the audition that Guru Dutt offered him the role on the spot and gave him the nickname Johny Walker after the famous Scotch whisky brand. While he remained uncredited in this film, he was credited as Badruddin in his next few films and eventually assumed the screen name Johny Walker in "Baaz" (1953). This is the name the comedian is best remembered by.[9][MR12]
• Guru Dutt, the film's director, made a very brief cameo appearance in its opening shot. The film opens with a shot of Guru Dutt with his back to the camera. As a car approaches, he looks back, revealing his face.
• This was Balraj Sahni's first film as a writer. He co-wrote its story with Guru Dutt and wrote its screenplay and dialogue. This was perhaps the only film he wrote but did not act in. He had worked in a few films as an actor before this film.

Song

• Tadbeer Se Bigdi Hui Taqdeer Bana Le - Sahir Ludhianivi had written this song as a ghazal and was shocked when S.D. Burman composed it as a light, playful song with Western influences.[MR3]

1. ^ Hum Ek Hain (1946)
2. ^ Taxi Driver (1954)
3. ^ Nau Do Gyarah (1957)
4. ^ Jaal (1952)
5. ^ Baaz (1953)
6. ^ Aar Paar (1954)
7. ^ C.I.D. (1956)
8. ^ Milap (1955)
9. ^ Baaz (1953)