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Ranked #2 of 100
Pyaasa
प्यासा · 1957
A poet nobody wants alive and everybody wants dead. Guru Dutt's indictment of a country that monetises art only after the artist is gone.
- Director
- Guru Dutt
- Year
- 1957
- Genre
- Drama · Musical
- Cast
- Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Mala Sinha, Johnny Walker
Why it's at number 2
The single most beautiful use of light and despair in Indian film. TIME's all-time 100.
A poet nobody wants alive and everybody wants dead. Guru Dutt's indictment of a country that monetises art only after the artist is gone.
Pyaasa sits in the 1950s alongside Mother India and Awaara — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Guru Dutt — also responsible for Kaagaz Ke Phool.
- Released in 1957, in the 1950s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama, Musical.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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