Pyaasa (1957) is the story of life and loves of unsuccessful poet who could achieve
neither fame nor prosperity in his life. Vijay is a poet whose poems none of the
traditional publishers accepts. They want poems on love, not on hunger. Vijay's
home is miserable. His brother taunt and insult him and sell the paper on which
his poems are written as waste papers to a grocer for a few annas.
