New Delhi: Freud once said, “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” Is it so for Vijay as well, the character played by Guru Dutt in his seminal work Pyaasa? Today on Dutt’s birth centenary, we revisit Pyaasa and the questions it both answers and raises.

Pyaasa means different things to different people, but its influence and relevance through the years has not diminished in the slightest. The music, the climax, the lyrics, the side characters; the movie has rightly developed a cult status around the world. Released a decade after India’s independence the movie also acts as a snapshot of the time, both its joys and travails. The film is so rich in content that it can be seen through various lenses; political, social, ideological and personal.

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