Pyaasa
Director: Guru Dutt
Starring: Mala Sinha, Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Johny Walker, Rehman
Music Director: S D Burman
Singers: Hemant Kumar Mohammed Rafi Geeta Dutt
Pyaasa 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. Meanwhile,
Vijay goes to the annual function of his college to recite some poems of his.
There he meets Meena the girl with whom he had a flaming romance in his college
days. She is married to Mr. Ghose a publisher who offer him a job but he lose
the job as the publisher suspicious of Meena's attachment to Vijay . He is
desperate and depressed . A friend misleads him and gets him drunk and then
takes him to the house of a dancer. There Vijay witness the tragedy of the
fallen women and fell for them. In the same locality he again comes across the
street walker who sensing his frustration, gives him her sympathy and
encouragement. But Vijay tells her that he has made up to end his life. The
streetwalker puts him to sleep but finds him missing the next morning. After a
few days the newspapers announce the news of his death . After his death his
poems are published and become a great success, Vijay wins posthumous fame.
Vijay is dead yet he is alive. For poet like him never die. Pyaasa is the
Undying Spirit of man, of the hope and fears, the frustrations and ambitions and
the craving for love and friendship that is in every human heart.
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