Paper Flowers

Suresh Sinha, a famous director, discovers star potential in Shanti, a woman he stumbled into one rainy evening, and casts her as the lead in a film. In a twist of fate, Shanti becomes a superstar and Suresh faces a decline in his career.

Paper Flowers is a 1959 romance movie directed by Guru Dutt, starring Kumari Naaz, Waheeda Rehman, Johnny Walker. It holds an IMDb rating of 7.8/10 from 3,125 votes and runs 2h 28m.