Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone was an Indian film director, producer and actor. He was born on 9 July 1925, at Bangalore. His father Shivashanker Rao Padukone was initially a headmaster, and then a bank employee. And his mother Vasanthi Padukone was initially a housewife, later taught in a school. She also wrote short stories.
Guru Dutt got his first job of a telephone operator at a Lever Brothers factory in Kolkata. Then he found a job under three-year contract with the Prabhat Film Company in Pune by his uncle. In 1944 he acted in a small role as Sri Krishna in Chand. In 1953, Dutt married Geeta Dutt. She was a well-known playback singer. They had three children, Tarun (born 1954), Arun (born 1956), and Nina Dutt (born 1962).
He died on 10 October, 1964, when he was 39 years old.