Crime film elements, melodrama and the expected musical numbers are all worked   seamlessly into this feature, one of the key films in the short but              influential career of Guru Dutt. Dutt directs and stars in this story of a       taxi driver who is fired from his job and becomes involved with a planned bank robbery. "Within its conventional framework of a light-hearted, entertaining   film, Aar Paar was different...it brought with it a whiff of rebellion,  a cheeky assertion of the existence of the post-independence worker, with        different aspirations and the aggressive self-confidence of a new generation"  (Shampa Banerjee, Film India). In Hindi with English subtitles.          Guru Dutt---India---1954---161 mins.