Aar-Paar (1954), which tells the story of a migrant taxi driver in Bombay who is in love with two women, blended elements of film noir with comedy. Scripted by Nabendu Ghosh and directed by and starring Guru Dutt, the film was a huge success, the first of many that the actor-director would deliver in the early 1950s. Aar-Paar cemented the core team of technicians that took shape in the action-adventure drama Baaz (1953) and was to define Guru Dutt's strikingly individualistic cinema of the 1950s, the high points of which were Pyaasa (1957) and Kaagaz Ke Phool (1959). The Aar-Paar crew included Raj Khosla, (a filmmaker Guru Dutt had mentored), as well as screenwriter Abrar Alvi and cinematographer V.K. Murthy, who went on to do seminal work with the filmmaker. In Aar-Paar, Guru Dutt played the lead role, like he had done in Baaz the previous year. More famously, he starred opposite Madhubala in Mr. & Mrs. '55 and Waheeda Rehman in both Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool.