Overview

• Guru Dutt acquired Bungalow No. 48 in Pali Hills for Rs 1 lakh but had it demolished on his birthday in 1963.
• His wife, Geeta Dutt, reported supernatural occurrences involving a tree ghost and a Buddha statue that exacerbated their marital strife.
• Biographies record that the filmmaker attempted suicide twice within the confines of the bungalow.
• Close friend and writer Bimal Mitra was stunned to find only rubble when he returned to the home where he had once stayed.
• Two definitive biographies by Bimal Mitra and Yasser Usman serve as primary sources for the renewed reportage on the bungalow’s troubled history.