Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers)

A study of Guru Dutt’s romantic melodrama Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959) in the BFI Film Classics series.

Lalitha Gopalan is Associate Professor of film studies at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. She is the author of Cinema of Interruptions: Action Genres in Contemporary Indian Cinema (British Film Institute, 2002) and Bombay (BFI Modern Classics, 2005). She is the editor of The Cinema of India (2010). She has published widely on Indian cinema in journals including Screen, New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film and Film Quarterly.