Pyaasa: Unraveling the Poet’s Melancholia in Post Colonial India

This article by MAP’s Dinesh Khemani, explores the cinematic vision of Guru Dutt complemented by the soul stirring poetry of Sahir Ludhianvi and the starkly expressionist aesthetic approach of the ace cinematographer V.K. Murthy. The artistic sensibilities of these three artists converge in Pyaasa to construct a melancholic and tragic image of the artist and […]