Pyaasa - Guru Dutt, Waheeda Rehman

[@RaghuvirVarma]

Happy new year, Tommy. It’s 2023, and I suggest it probably is a good time to upload your glorious version of Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam (a 1962 film). This would further complete the Dutt trilogy on your channel, giving desi film aficionados the real treat of India’s finest films.

[@tommydan55]

You read my mind. It should be up in a month or so. I did upload it once, when I included both copyrighted and public domain films. It was immediately hit with a takedown notice (a copyright strike) by Ultra, so no one ever actually saw it. I hope this time it's different. Happy New Year, Mr. Yore.

[@mayapadiyar3130]

Its difficult to find such a good print of this masterpiece.......the dvd companies have no respect for old classics

[@tanishjain1898]

I ended up watching the film, and My God... What have i ending up seeing!!!!😍😍First of all, I came to know by this Sure MASTERPIECE why that era of bollywood is known as the Golden Era of Indian Cinema! Truly Truly Amazing And Touching experience.. Really deep emotions, innocent and lovable characters, heart warming storyline and truly SPIRITUAL and Journey full of engaging moments... Without any nonsense or unnecessary garbage! This is called real Cult Classic! Terrific Performances, Masterclass of Songs and Direction!!! A deep dive into human nature, greed and A sincere effort to show the life struggles of a creative person.. One of the best classics for me! Big BIG KUDOS TO GURU DUTT SAHB👌👌❤️👏👏 AND EVERY AWESOME ARTIST INVOLVED IN THIS VISIONARY PROJECT!🙏🙏🔥😍🔥

[@manuelabielefeld6809]

I joined a "Pyaasa" discussion today on Twitter and took the chance to share this link there. It was retweeted by Anurag Kashyap! Hope this will make even more people watch and appreciate your beautiful work here :))

[@tommydan55]

That was nice of you. Thanks, Ms. Bielefeld. Pardon my ignorance as I know only old Indian films and old Indian film people, but I had to look up Anurag Kashyap. So, thanks to him, too.

[@manuelabielefeld6809]

tommydan55 Should you ever feels the urge to watch modern films, Anurag Kashyap would be a good choice as he is one of the few contemporary Hindi film makers who think that good and meaningful content matters...As one journalist put it: "India's Martin Scorsese".

[@tommydan55]

Okay, thanks for the tip.

[@nirmalyamukhopadhyay1769]

Great audio and video of one of the landmarks in Indian cinema. The versions sold in the market are really atrocious. Thanks a ton.

[@tommydan55]

You're welcome. Yes, the DVDs out of India are a disgrace. I'm fortunate to have been provided a version from a different source.

[@netgalactic]

OMG!! You have the best of the best films ever!

[@tommydan55]

Hehe, well, maybe some of them.

[@AdnaneDass]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@zacklenon2247]

I searched your channel because I knew I would find the best print here.Thanks.

[@tommydan55]

You're welcome. I'm glad you were able to find a decent version of the film as all the ones released by the Indian media companies are beyond awful.

[@sabaarce2365]

I am so privileged to have found your channel...amazing movies This one for sure is The first song " I don't know what u said don't know what I heard " ...OMG the camera work , Wahida's face shots and her expressions ..unbelievable!!!! Again very fine film quality Thank you 😊👍

[@tommydan55]

You're welcome. Thank you for the kind words and I hope you find other films to enjoy.

[@shipraagarwal9027]

Wow what a movie Gurudutt is my fav actor

[@AmitKumar-eo1nh]

seen the movie many times but never found such a print..compulsive viewing.

[@tommydan55]

Yes, and I hope you enjoy viewing it yet again.

[@pratimjadhav4762]

गुरुदत्त द ग्रेट!

[@manuelabielefeld6809]

Wonderful! I knew you'd be doing a great job though :) The best print available, and now with English subs. Will share this on my blogs. You know, you just made a really good version available for so many people!

[@tommydan55]

Ms. Bielefeld! How nice to hear from you again. I'm happy that you can spread this around. Tell me, can you point me to an Indian classic film blog of yours? Is it in in English? Earlier it was mentioned that a Blu-Ray version of the film is now available. Have you seen it?

[@manuelabielefeld6809]

Tom, how nice to have a decent, legal, free and English subtitled Pyaasa online now that I can recommend to potential viewers who speak neither Hindustani nor French! If you look at the response you are getting here you can tell how much we needed this. My blogs are on Tumblr and yes, they are in English. But I'm no professional blogger and not much of a writer imo, so the stuff you can find there are mostly gifs and gifsets, screenshot edits, posters, film songs etc., but also some text posts. My main blog started as a personal blog but is now mostly Classic Indian Cinema:myluckyerror.tumblr.com/ (Many posts about Pyaasa and other Guru Dutt films there)I also run a sideblog with everything related to actress Waheeda Rehman:waheedarehman-infinitelylovable.tumblr.com/ I don't know if you are familiar with Tumblr, but there is a search and I use hashtags, so it shouldn't be too difficult to find your way around. Enjoy!The mentioned Blu-Ray version is the restored-by-ULTRA version. I haven't seen the Blu-Ray yet, but I have a DVD of that version, it was released a year ago in Europe by Swiss trigon-film. Images were greyish-purple, sound was lousy (not trigon's fault though!), and there are slight but significant differences in the copy/cut version of their print. I haven't seen the complete Pyaasa here yet, but sneaked into some scenes: simply great how carefully you worked on damages and scenes that came around too dark in that print! It looks really really good now. But not too "clean scrubbed", you know what I mean?I have one question though: no offence, but I think the upload is a tiny bit too slow? I tried both laptop and smart tv and when I try to adjust by speeding up a bit, it runs too fast.

[@tommydan55]

"I have one question though: no offence, but I think the upload is a tiny bit too slow?" No offense taken. I slow all my Indian films to film speed. You are in a PAL country and have been watching PAL 25fps films on television and DVD all your life and maybe 25fps (frames per second) seems 'normal' to you. As I'm sure you know, films - like films seen in a movie theater - run at 24fps. Virtually all Indian films on DVD, even those for the NTSC US market, keep the 25fps speed. So, yes, the ones I make for upload here are slower because 25fps speeds them up by over 4 percent. One very unfortunate consequence of this is that all the songs on PAL Indian classic film DVD and almost all film and song uploads from Indian films here on KZbin are out of tune - a semi-tone too high. I try and correct that. You can confirm what I say by asking any musicians you might know, or someone with perfect pitch. Or research the issue: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/576i#PAL_speed-up www.avsforum.com/forum/44-movies-concerts-music-discussion/450633-what-pal-speed-up.html One ad I read for the Blu-Ray said it's at 24fps.

[@ashok48393]

Very nice movie, one of the best of Guru Dutt. Also, the print is excellent. Thanks for the upload.

[@tommydan55]

You're welcome, Ashok.

[@yousrabel6856]

You have the best channel ever. And you're the best! You just upload the best movies which I love and admire so much. I don't speak the language and it makes me feel so happy because someone feels those who don't speak Hindi like me. Looking for your other uploads , thank you very much. Let me know if there's a chance of uploading Police 1958, Do Ustad 1957 :)

[@tommydan55]

Thanks for your kind words. Police I'm looking for. There's only an atrocious Friends VCD available. I have Do Ustad but it was released in 1959 and is still protected by copyright. My current projects are made from VHS tapes so no subtitled uploads for awhile. There is one that will become available in a week or so with subs. The reason it's not available just yet is because of a 'mistaken' copyright claim and takedown notice issued on it after I uploaded it. The crooks will be gone soon.

[@yousrabel6856]

tommydan55 that's great news, I am waiting for your new uploads. I just want to see that song from Police which is Chale The Hum Kahaan in good quality that's why I am looking for the film. Good luck, you're awesome.

[@juneg1964]

one of Guru Dutt master pieces. What nice print. Thanks a lot for sharing

[@tommydan55]

You're welcome. This one was a real labor of love.

[@jayaghoorah9515]

tommydan55 .the movie evokes so many emotions including demonstration of telepathic powers.the demonstration of givers and takers,how money can color relationships,mechanics in a family,the social injustices..thank you to the writers,producers,the actors and most to tommydan for his labor of love to present such a superb print and sound. Thank you all.

[@kamaltripathi8203]

Golden Heritage of Indian cinema 🌷🌼🌼🌷🌷🌼🌼🌷🌷

[@TheAnildesai]

wow--what a print ?? Gave us a great relief from seeing the lousy prints peddled by the usual vcd or dvd companies ,,Now this masterpiece has a different meaning .. tommy,you have the honour of recreating a masterpiece.Great service. Cannot thank you enough.Lets just say the viewers are grateful to you.

[@tommydan55]

Thank you for the kind words. I hope lots of people get to see the film in decent quality now.

[@musablali]

Wow Tom, what a spectacular print ! Great job !!

[@liamvnbw]

Very moving... Great quality

[@ravindersinghthakur3709]

Thanks for uploading nice print 🙏

[@svlreddy50]

My heartfelt congratulations to you sir as I being a non hindi person could view the movie more understandably because of english translation of dialogues & songs .Thank you very much.

[@tommydan55]

You're welcome. As I don't understand the language either, I need them, too. So I always try to provide English subtitles if possible. I'm glad they're appreciated.

[@Mohd.Imran1967]

THANKS 4 TOMMYDON. ORON KI BANISBAT APKE PRINT & MOVIE LENTH FULL HOTI H. NICE MUSICAL MOVIE. GREAT RAFI SAHAB. VERY GOOD SAHIR'S LYRICS.

[@tommydan55]

You're welcome, sir. I'm glad you're enjoying it again and thanks for leaving your comment.

[@Tatheer-E-Deen]

Great print and perfect aspect ratio

[@shadumrudu]

Thanks a lot. You are doing great service to millions of movie lovers. Great job.

[@tommydan55]

Thank you. I hope you're enjoying this great film and maybe some of the others in this channel. All (well, most) films have both all the songs as well as playlists of all the songs in my songs channel. For example, if you ever wanted to watch Jaane Kya Tune Kahi without searching through the movie for it, you can easily find it here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pn_OaXWDrdN6j6s

[@jayaghoorah9515]

Wow. Great print and captions.

[@tommydan55]

Oh, so the subtitles are okay? It seemed so when I was working on them but, not speaking the language, I couldn't be sure. Thank you for the confirmation.

[@siddharthkatariya1493]

Great audio, great video and great movie

[@RaghuvirVarma]

Finally! You're the best, Tom!

[@tommydan55]

Hehe, thanks. Been waiting a long time for this.

[@I_am_just_a_newbee]

Thanks for the wonderful movie and spectacular print and please upload kagaz ke phool also

[@tommydan55]

I'm glad you enjoyed it. Khagaaz Ke Phool is still under copyright so I won't be uploading it anytime soon. Sorry.

[@taeyeonsnose7003]

Ur channel is an incredible resource and a labor of love ! Omg

[@tommydan55]

Thanks! I hope you find more gems to watch.

[@TheAnildesai]

Now it is the turn of Kagaz Ke Phool.That could be a tricky job because it is in cinemascope and could present problem of aspect ratio.But knowing you Tommy ,we are sure you will make a success of it too.

[@tommydan55]

I actually have a Kagaaz Ke Phool on which I worked. But it's 1.33:1 and not the Cinemascope version. Plus, it's protected by copyright for another two years so I won't be uploading it here. I know of no Cinemascope versions on which to work, anyway. One was pointed out to me before, but it was already heavily cropped.

[@manuelabielefeld6809]

Even a 1.33:1 upload will probably be the best available version. And I like the conventional lens version, I find the actors a bit more relaxed and at ease with each other.

[@navketan1965]

Einstein’s Quote about Mahatma Gandhi fits perfectly well about stature of Sahir Ludhianvi’s Poetry & Philosophy in Literature & Bollywood history-- “Generations to come will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth. (said Einstein of Mahatma Gandhi)” Sahir’s poetry & wisdom would shine on this earth long after we have perished. ­ ­ ­ SAHIR= Wisdom of Aristotle+Brilliance of Einstein. ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ ­ Sahir Ludhianvi was FIRST A PHILOSOPHER who wrote poetry to convey his GOD GIVEN WISDOM & life experiences of his own to common man for his/her welfare in his poetry. Every word was carefully crafted & inserted in the right context to convey true message from that great thinker for A given situation (issue facing common man under similar circumstances).Not even one other published poet in any language has addressed so many diverse issues facing the mortals in his/her work as Sahir has done in impeccable manner & forceful combination of words. Long after we (mortals) have perished immortal poetry by SAHIR would shine on this earth with light radiated by NEXT SUN after demise of the present Sun.

[@abhrajitabhattacharya5332]

This is one of my favorite movies. The audio and video quality is very good. Thank you so much for uploading this awesome movie.

[@tommydan55]

You're welcome and I'm glad you've enjoyed it. Thanks for posting.

[@user-bz2hl9xw1b]

The print is amazing! But not sure the audio is the remastered version. Wonder where can we get the remastered audio?

[@pratap1124]

Thanks a lot for uploading this movie!

[@tommydan55]

You're very welcome. It's one of the great films, not only of India but of the entire world.

[@pratap1124]

Yes, I am aware of that. It has been credited as one of the top 10 romantic movies of all time in the whole world by Time magazine. Guru Dutt was a genius and much ahead of his times!!

[@tommydan55]

Yes, I agree with you 100% about Guru Dutt.

[@anammysore8779]

THE BEST PRINT.thank you sooooooomuch. Please please upload old film narsibhagat

[@tommydan55]

Thanks for the kind words, but I don't have the film you requested. Sorry.

[@anammysore8779]

@@tommydan55 thank you for your kind reply

[@ravindersinghthakur3709]

Please upload Sohni Mahiwal old one

[@snowcherryleopard]

Brilliant

[@safrazchaudry]

Spectacular print of an. outstanding film. How did you manage to create such a wonderful print?

[@tommydan55]

I had a decent source, for a change, and I put in a whole lot of hard work. For example, since it didn't come with English subtitles, I had to create them from a different source that did. I doubt you need them but I do, and maybe others that don't speak the language will find them useful.

[@tommydan55]

Oops, I accidentally removed a comment made to the earlier comment. I sincerely apologize and perhaps you'll be able to make it again, if you wish.

[@madhusudan53]

also ultra is charging Rs.100 for watching it online

[@tommydan55]

I accidentally removed your comment about the existence of a Blu-Ray. Please forgive me. It was news to me and I went to look it up. For some reason Ultra decided to change the audio to surround sound. Have you seen the Blu-Ray? It seems to be a minute shorter than the version here. And, to tell the truth, I wasn't impressed with the (purple) restoration demo in the Ultra channel here on KZbin. But a commercial release would be very different from a KZbin version. Thank you very much for the information.

[@safrazchaudry]

Well your hard endeavours will be much appreciated

[@yashrawat8662]

Sir please upload Kaagaz Ke Phool.

[@tommydan55]

It's still protected by copyright so not anytime soon. Sorry.

[@madhusudan53]

Thanks of r great upload as promised by you - I bought it's dvd 3 times but the print was not good at all - thanks once again

[@tommydan55]

Yes, the Guru Dutt films are notorious for having absolutely horrible versions on India media company DVDs. Needless to say, this didn't come from one of those. It's a shame, because I'm convinced that the atrocious quality of the DVDs helps prevent him from receiving his due as one of the world's great directors. Apparently, the restored version of this film has been shown at film festivals in different parts of the world to great acclaim.

[@filmishit]

Do you restore the audio too?

[@tommydan55]

I do work on the audio, yes, But my audio skills aren't so good.

[@filmishit]

@@tommydan55 Audio does seem difficult to restore, though i don't know too much about it. It sounds great!

[@tmohdtmohd]

Nice movie

[@gmrfrye78]

Thank you for sharing this rare film in high quality but I found it an awkward mix of slight comedy, heavy-handed melodrama and cheesy musical, maybe not one for me but glad I've seen it, too many long songs got in the way when you really wanted some quality dialogue instead, plot a bit cliched and pious like a bad Hollywood film, I much prefer the more naturalistic style of Ray or The Cloud-Capped Star, this felt too staged and contrived

[@tommydan55]

I'm inclined to agree, even though Pyaasa is almost universally acclaimed as one of the great films out of India. "A homage of sorts to Orson Welles and the story of Christ’s resurrection, Pyaasa has been named one of the Times Top 100 movies of all times, one of the Times top 10 romantic movies in 2010, and Sight and Sound chose the soundtrack as one of ‘The Best Music in Films’, in 2004." I do disagree with your comment on the music as it's almost universally admired. Maybe you're not used to Indian films being almost all musicals. Also, Dutt, because of being heavily influenced by western films, is thought of as being more approachable by westerners than other Indian films (but not Ray's work). In any event, my favorite film of his is Mr. & Mrs. '55. It's a comedy (mostly) and if you're curious, you can find it in this channel here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJ2oZapsha5pr68 Thank you for taking the time to leave your comment.

[@qualquan]

I guess not my cuppa tea

[@tommydan55]

I chuckled. Yes, this film gets so much praise and is ranked by Time magazine as one of the 100 greatest films of all time. And I don't see it either. There are a couple of Guru Dutt's films I think are better and many other Indian films I enjoy more. So, don't feel like you've missed something that others see in this film. You're not alone.🙂

[@ashnmerica]

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[@premprakashsrivastava6355]

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