[As he says in one of his dialogues during this scene - "Sab kuch khone ke baad, sirf ek cheez bachi hai mere paas...Meri Khuddari.."(After losing everything, I've only one thing left with me - My self-respect...)] In the final scene, remembering his glorious past, he dies in the director's chair in an empty film studio, a lonely and forgotten man.The film is said to have been inspired by Guru Dutt's association with Gyan Mukherjee, and to be a homage to Mukherjee.