Edited sentence: And Rehman, in her Hindi cinema leading lady screen debut, is sultry, radiant—a woman to bring out the poet in any man, on screen or in the audience[].Burman's famous songs.In a twist out of Sullivan's Travels, Vijay is believed dead and his poetry "posthumously" lionized.Independence from Britain sparked a robust, questioning intellectual artistry.India cinema had a golden age in the 1950s.Is a time top 100 movies of all time and a top reading for International cinema classes.Its atimeless masterpiece.Pyaasa, which means thirst, is the most soulfully romantic of the lot.The film pyaasa takes Usthrough pain anguish andinsensitivity of a poet who wants to publish his poems but none takes him seriously..neither his brothers,publishers.The film unravels the blanket which people wear to avoid the real encounter with themselves.The filma also journeys us about the society evilsand how there is no empathy for others pains and feelings and the hypocratic nature of society.The writer-producer-director-star paints a glamorous portrait of an artist's isolation through dappled imagery and the sensitive picturizing of S.Vijay (Guru Dutt) is an unpublished poet, dismissed by family and office colleagues but befriended by a prostitute (Waheeda Rehman).While Satyajit Ray was pioneering the nation's art cinema, commercial filmmakers such as Raj Kapoor (Awaara), Mehboob Khan (Mother India) and Bimal Roy (Do Bigha Zamin) were grafting influences from Hollywood melodramas and Italian neo-realism onto the Indian tradition of musical narrative