Date of Issue - 10 October 2004Hi ! For today's post I have selected two great personalities who were born on 9th July and 10th July and have been commemorated on postage stamps. These are famous actor & Film Maker of Indian Cinema Guru Datta and great inventor Nikola Telsa...The post is a philatelic tribute to these great persons who have carved a name in their specific fields...Guru Datta is known for special light and sound effects in his films. I want to mention here that 9th July is also the birth anniversary of one more famous artist of Hindi Cinema Late Sanjeev Kumar and today is also the birthday of famous Indian Cricketer Sunil Gavaskar ....He turns 60 today....Having lot of records to his credit......A very Happy Birthday to Great Cricketer !! This is all for today...Till next Post...Have a Great Time !
Guru Datta - Great actor & Film Maker of Indian Cinema - Birth Anniversary -9th July
Guru Dutt or Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone (July 9, 1925 - October 10, 1964) was an Indian film director, producer and actor. He is often credited with ushering in the golden era of Hindi cinema. He made quintessential 1950s and 1960s classics such as Pyaasa (Thirst), Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers), Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (The Gentleman, the Wife and the Servant) and Chaudhvin Ka Chand (The Fourteenth Day Moon). In particular, Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool are now included among the greatest films of all time, both by Time magazine's "All-TIME" 100 best movies and by the Sight & Sound critics' and directors' poll, where Dutt himself is included among the greatest film directors of all time. He is sometimes referred to as "India's Orson Welles".
Guru Dutt or Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone (July 9, 1925 - October 10, 1964) was an Indian film director, producer and actor. He is often credited with ushering in the golden era of Hindi cinema. He made quintessential 1950s and 1960s classics such as Pyaasa (Thirst), Kaagaz Ke Phool (Paper Flowers), Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (The Gentleman, the Wife and the Servant) and Chaudhvin Ka Chand (The Fourteenth Day Moon). In particular, Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool are now included among the greatest films of all time, both by Time magazine's "All-TIME" 100 best movies and by the Sight & Sound critics' and directors' poll, where Dutt himself is included among the greatest film directors of all time. He is sometimes referred to as "India's Orson Welles".
He is most famous for making brilliant lyrical and artistic films within the context of popular Hindi cinema of the 1950s, and expanding its commercial conventions, starting with his 1957 masterpiece, Pyaasa. Several of his later works have a cult following. His movies go full house when re-released; especially in Germany, France and Japan .The latest book on him is Ten Years with Guru Dutt: Abrar Alvi's Journey by Sathya Saran based on the recollections of his chief scriptwriter and friend.
Read More ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Dutt
Nikola Tesla - Great Inventor - Birth Anniversary - 10 th July
Nikola Tesla (10 July 1856 – 7 January 1943) was an inventor and a mechanical and electrical engineer. Tesla was an ethnic Serb born in the village of Smiljan, Vojna Krajina, in the territory of today's Croatia. He was a subject of the Austrian Empire by birth and later became an American citizen. Tesla is often described as an important scientist and inventor of the modern age, a man who "shed light over the face of Earth". He is best known for many revolutionary contributions in the field of electricity and magnetism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Tesla's patents and theoretical work formed the basis of modern alternating current electric power (AC) systems, including the polyphase power distribution systems and the AC motor, with which he helped usher in the Second Industrial Revolution.
