Both Died At About 40

Isn't it strange that both Geeta Dutt and Guru Dutt died at around the age of 40?

How did Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone get the name Guru Dutt? As per this article "His family later changed his first name to Guru Dutt after a childhood accident, as it was perceived to be auspicious. The surname went out, perhaps when he became a dancer in Kolkata."

From the same article: other famous members of the same community of Saraswat Brahmins: "Guru Dutt and Deepika are not the only movie personalities the Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin community have produced -- there is Guru Dutt's illustrious first cousin Shyam Benegal, who just won the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, playwright and actor Girish Karnad, editor Guru Dutt Shirali, composer Bhaskar Chandavarkar, actress Leena Chandavarkar, actor Anant Nag and his late actor-director brother Shankar Nag, Guru Dutt's niece director Kalpana Lajmi, actress Isha Koppikar among others."

Aah, so Kishore Kumar and Leena Chandravarkar is another Bengali-GSB connection apart from the Dutt's.

Guru Dutt's Pyaasa is in Time's list of top 100 movies.

As per this article http://www.telegraphindia.com/1041010/asp/look/story_3860229.asp from Kolkata's Telegraph, Guru Dutt spent about 10 years in Bhowanipore. It's rather surprising... He is the 3rd great actor from that part of Kolkata - after Mithun Chakraborty and Bipasha Basu.