Film festival Ekagra featuring the movies of a legend of Bollywood Guru Dutt began here from Friday with screening of the movie Pyaasa at Abhirang Auditorium, Bharat Bhavan.
The film festival Ekagra is like a treat for the film watchers as well as the Guru Dutt fans of the city. There was a huge crowd seen at the premises of Bharat Bhavan to watch one of the best classics of Guru Dutt Pyaasa. While talking to The Pioneer, in-charge of the film fest Prem Shankar Shukla said, “Each month we organise a film fest and this time we will screen the classics of the legend Guru Dutt.”
It is a 1957 Indian film produced by, directed by, and starring Guru Dutt. The film tells the story of struggling poet, trying to make his works known in post-independence India, and a prostitute with a heart of gold who eventually helps him get his poems published. The music was composed by SD Burman.
Vijay (Guru Dutt) is an unsuccessful poet whose works are not taken seriously by publishers or his brothers (who sell his poems as waste paper). Unable to bear their taunting that he is a good-for-nothing, he stays away from home and is often out on the streets. He encounters a good-hearted prostitute named Gulabo (Waheeda Rehman), who is enamoured with his poetry and falls in love with him. He also encounters his ex-girlfriend Meena (Mala Sinha) from college and finds out that she has married a big publisher Mr. Ghosh (Rehman) for financial security.
Ghosh hires him as a servant to find out more about him and Meena. Rest of the movie is a suspense how Vijay searches for his identity. The Bhopalites enjoyed the movie whole heartedly as it was a golden opportunity for the Guru Dutt fans to watch the movie once again on the big screen.