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Here is Shakila talking on Guru Dutt, as posted by Ms Priya Pakanati on Facebook.

.“Guru Dutt used to explain things well to us artistes. He was very mild, and patient. But he’d get angry when he didn’t get what he wanted. Then he would be very picky. There was a scene in which I had to look down and then fling my head back. We had five or six retakes. He wanted me to look exactly the way he had imagined. He was particular about the way my hair fell. I didn’t have the chance to work with him again, but I did act in Raj Khosla’s C.I.D. which was produced by Guru Dutt.

The first day I worked with Guru Dutt for Aar Paar involved a song sequence. I went to the sets, a room with cardboard boxes lying everywhere. It looked like nothing. Everyone asked Guru Dutt how he could possibly film there. But he did. The song was, Houn abhi main jawan (I am still young) and how fantastically he picturized it.”

And here's the lovely song, she talks about:-

One of the films which remained unreleased due to his death was Picnic which had Sadhna acting opposite him. The music of the film was by N Dutta.

This song, Kitna Rangeen Hai Yeh Chaand Sitaaron Ka Sama is sung by Mohd Rafi and Asha Bhosle.

This footage later appeared as part of movie Film Hi Film in the 1980s.

Thanks to Mr Pavan Jha for sharing it on his youtube channel. 

Here is an incomplete list of published material on Guru Dutt sourced from Wikipedia.

If you know any other material do inform us so that we can add it here.

• Guru Dutt, 1925-1965: A Monograph, Firoze Rangoonwalla, National Film Archive of India, Govt of India, 1973.
• My Son Gurudutt, Vasanti Padukone,India, serialised in The Imprint and Screen magazine, April 1979 & 2004.
• Nanna maga Gurudatta, Vasanti Padukone, Kannada, Manōhara Granthamāle, Dharwad, India, 1976, 120pp.
• Guru Dutt, un grand cinéaste encore pratiquement inconnu hors de l’Inde, Henri Micciollo, Films sans Frontières, 1984.
• Profiles, Five Film-makers from India, Shampa Banerjee. Directorate of Film Festivals,National Film Development Corp., 1985. ISBN 81-201-0007-7.
• Guru Dutt: A Life in Cinema, Nasreen Munni Kabir, Oxford University Press, 1997, ISBN 0-19-564274-0.
• In Black and White: Hollywood and the Melodrama of Guru Dutt, Darius Cooper, Seagull Books, 2005. ISBN 81-7046-217-7.
• Yours Guru Dutt: Intimate Letters of a Great Indian Filmmaker, Nasreen Munni Kabir, Lustre Press, Roli Books, 2006. ISBN 81-7436-388-2.
• Ten Years with Guru Dutt: Abrar Alvi's journey, Sathya Saran. 2008, Penguin, ISBN 0-670-08221-X.