Is gane men Jo aag hai wo aapko jalaegi nahi balki gala degi…“Jala
do ise phook dalo yeh duniya…Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaye toh kya hai”.
It is poetry of defeat and sorrow, which has
long been popular in Urdu literature.
I have seen film pyasa so many times than
any other film,and yet it never becomes old.I have a great passion for the song
—“Yeh duniya agar mil bhi jaye toh kya hai…”. This song, this film is of such a high quality, that I am
confused from where to start.
The song highlights the ultimate
achievement of this all-time loser – a slap in the face of the society. After a
dead beggar wearing his coat is mistaken for him, his love Gulab, a prostitute,
gets his poems published with her earnings. When Gulab finds Vijay is alive,
she organizes a function to present the real Vijay to the world.
It is worth listening to the lamentations of
a broken poet. Someone who is broken not only by the insidious forces of
society, but also by his love, his loss and the spirit of living that he lost
somewhere down the line.
and his popular writings, Vijay (Guru Datt) has no desire to attain the world
any more. Why revel in a shallow world that ignores the living?
Yeh Duniya Agar Mil Bhi Jaye To Kya Hai Lyrics
Ye
mahalon, ye takhton, ye taajon ki duniya
Ye
insaan ke dushman samaajon ki duniya
Ye
daulat ke bhukhe rawaajon ki duniya
Ye
duniya agar mil bhi jaaye to kya hai
Har
ek jism ghaayal, har ek ruh pyaasi
Nigaaho
men ulajhan, dilon men udaasi
Ye
duniya hai ya alam-e-badahawaasi
Ye
duniya agar mil bhi jaaye to kya hai
Jahaan
ek khilauna hai insaan ki hasti
Ye
basti hai murda paraston ki basti
Yahaan
par to jiwan se hai maut sasti
Ye
duniya agar mil bhi jaaye to kya hai
Jawaani
bhatakati hai badakaar banakar
Jawaan
jism sajate hain baazaar banakar
Yahaan
pyaar hota hai wyopaar banakar
Ye
duniya agar mil bhi jaaye to kya hai
Ye
duniya jahaan adami kuchh nahin hai
Wafa
kuchh nahin, dosti kuchh nahin hai
Yahaan
pyaar ki kadr hi kuchh nahin hai
Ye
duniya agar mil bhi jaaye to kya hai
Jala
do ise funk daalo ye duniya
Mere
saamane se hata lo ye duniya
Tumhaari
hai tum hi snbhaalo ye duniya
Ye
duniya agar mil bhi jaaye to kya hai
This song from “Pyaasa” (1957) is a
memorable song because of the satire that this song conveys. This song is such
a high quality song that one does not know where to begin.
The lyrics of Sahir Ludhianvi convey the
feelings of the “departed” so emphatically and with supreme satire. The music
of S D Burman is appropriately understated. Rafi’s voice covers a range of
pitches till in the end it climbs the Mount Everest; such is the high pitch
that he achieves as the protagonist is being forcibly evicted.
In the exciting climax of film “Pyaasa” – in
cold black and white – you see the silhouette of Guru Dutt which gradually
comes into focus and by the end of the song you see a larger-than-life Dutt.
The reaction shots of each character, especially of Gulab (Waheeda Rehman), are
captivating.
There is the unforgettable image of Vijay
(Guru Dutt) standing in the doorway with a
world-weary look on his face. Alone and dejected, he looms large over a morally
bankrupt world.
Story of Film Pyaasa
Vijay (Guru Dutt) is an unsuccessful Urdu
poet in Calcutta 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.
A dead
beggar to whom Vijay gave his coat and whom he tries to save unsuccessfully
from the path of a running train is mistaken for Vijay.
Gulabo goes to Ghosh and gets his poems
published. Ghosh does so feeling he can exploit the poems and make a killing.
The poems are very successful. However, Vijay is alive and in the hospital
after the train mishap.
Ghosh and Shyam, Vijay’s close friend,
refuse to recognise him and he is committed to a mental asylum since he insists
that he is Vijay and is thought to be mad. Vijay’s brothers too are bought off
by Ghosh not to recognise him and a memorial is held for the dead poet.
Vijay, with the help of his friend Abdul
Sattar (Johnny Walker) escapes from the mental asylum and reaches the memorial
service, where he denounces this corrupt and materialistic world. Seeing that
Vijay is alive, his friend and brothers side with a rival publisher for more
money and declare that this is Vijay.
It is upon Vijay’s presumed death that recognition
finally pours in, but by the time he comes back to attend his own memorial
meeting, he has seen enough of the world’s materialism and selfishness to
reject it.
And he declares sorrowfully in one of the
film’s many classic songs: “Ye duniya agar mil bhi jaye toh kya hai” (“Would I
care if such a world were mine?”).
Vijay
becomes sick of all the hypocrisy in the world around him and declares he is
not Vijay. He then leaves with Gulabo to start a new life.
On October 10, 1964, Guru Dutt was found
dead in his bed in his rented apartment at Pedder Road in Mumbai. He is said to
have been mixing alcohol and sleeping pills. His death may have been suicide,
or just an accidental overdose.
Note:–
In 2005,
Time Magazine selected Pyaasa as one of the all-time 100 movies of 20th
century.Waheeda’s character Gulab is based on real-life Gulabo, a prostitute
whom Guru Dutt’s friend-director befriended once.
The End
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