Pyaasa

this is one the best is not the best hindi film ever made and I stand by my claim. were there no leaks in it? yes there were, but they were just too negligible for a masterpiece like this. and those moments were crucial in my opinion to even out the seriousness in this film otherwise it would just look and sound pretentious. the melodies of this film alone deserve 4 stars to be very honest. and the camera movements were one hell of a deal. thie showed us the entire life of a struggling man, or rather say a true man in an impure world. and the metaphors it carry are just remarkable. the sex worker our protagonist fell in love with, that is a profession that is considered bad and impure and unholy. but in a world so cold, selfish and monopolous, do the workers in the brothel really deserve to carry a bad reputation? because when vijay was in dire need of help, even his blood brothers and the most repulated people step back, and the one to help him was gulab, the sex worker. after all he went through, the world recognised him and his work cherished only when he was assumabley dead. but that's the whole point, if he had really died, it wouldn't have really mattered, but guru datt decided to do it the hard way, he wanted to make us feel how life really is when your work is recognised but it worths nothing to you anymore, and then is exactly when the beutallist melody hits, "ye duniya agar mil bhi Jaye to kya hai" and I had tears of despair and yet joy in my eyes watching it. the characters were all really involved in the story, from Vijay to his brothers to his lover, and even the massage man. every character did what he had to and did it well enough. now that I've written my heart out about this film i feel like it's very much like "the idiot" by Fyodor Dostoyevski. because it lowkey follows a same pattern here, a christ like perosonally in a rotten and cold world. i just loved this film a lot. a ton.