Cast: Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Mala Sinha
Guru Dutt was Indian film's doomed romantic poet. He plays one here, with gorgeous Waheeda Rehman as his muse-whore, in a movie unmatched for dark tenderness.
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Pyaasa - 1957