While Dutt was hired by Prabhat Film Company as a choreographer, he was pressed into service as an actor, and even as an assistant director. After Prabhat failed in 1947, Dutt moved to Bombay, where he worked with two leading directors of the time, with Amiya Chakravarty in "Girls' School", and with Gyan Mukherjee in the Bombay Talkies film "Sangram". Then, Dev Anand offered him a job as a director in his new company, Navketan, after the first movie had flopped.