''The Dialogue of Pyaasa'' is a 2011 book by the British author and television documentary producer Nasreen Munni Kabir, containing the dialogues of the 1957 Indian romantic drama ''

Pyaasa ''Pyaasa'' (; ) is a 1957 Indian Hindi drama film directed and produced by Guru Dutt, who stars alongside Mala Sinha, Waheeda Rehman, Rehman, and Johnny Walker. Set in Calcutta, it focuses on the disillusioned Urdu poet Vijay (Dutt), whose ...

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(a mix of Hindi and Urdu) and its translation in English. The book was published by Om Books International on 28 February 2011 and received positive critical reviews.

Summary and release

''The Dialogue of Pyaasa'' was written by the British author and television documentary producer Nasreen Munni Kabir, becoming the third publication on the Indian actor-cum-filmmaker

Guru Dutt Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone (9 July 1925 – 10 October 1964), better known as Guru Dutt, was an Indian film director, producer, actor, choreographer, and writer.Rajadhyaksha, Ashish, and Paul Willemen. 9941998''Encyclopedia of Indian ...

's work after the biographies '' Guru Dutt: A Life in Cinema'' (1996) and ''

Yours Guru Dutt ''Yours Guru Dutt'' is a 2006 book by the British author and television documentary producer Nasreen Munni Kabir, containing a total of 37 handwritten letters in both English and Hindi by the Indian actor and filmmaker Guru Dutt—most of which ...

'' (2006). The book contains the dialogues of ''

'' (1957)—in Hindi and Urdu—and its English-language translation, as well as lyrics for the soundtrack and a commentary by Kabir on the film. A romantic drama, ''Pyaasa'' features Dutt,

Mala Sinha Alda Sinha (born 11 November 1936), better known by her stage name Mala Sinha is a former Indian actress who has worked in Hindi, Bengali and Nepali films. Initially starting her career with regional cinema, she went on to become a top leading ...

, Waheeda Rehman, Rehman, and Johnny Walker in the leading roles, and was released on 22 February 1957. Garnering positive response from audiences and critics,^:75 it is subsequently dubbed as one of the best films in the genre. Kabir told Sangeetha Devi Dundoo from ''

The Hindu ''The Hindu'' is an Indian English-language daily newspaper owned by The Hindu Group, headquartered in Chennai, Tamil Nadu. It began as a weekly in 1878 and became a daily in 1889. It is one of the Indian newspapers of record and the secon ...

'', "The film is immortal and its theme is universal, depicting unrequited love, greed, angst and rejection. Moreover, the younger generation may not be familiar with some of the Urdu words used in the film. The commentary will help them understand better." ''The Dialogue of Pyaasa'' is the fourth in her series of film dialogue books, following ''The Immortal Dialogue of Mughal-e-Azam'' (2006), ''The Dialogue of Mother India'' (2008), and ''The Dialogue of Awaara'' (2010). According to her, each books need took nine months or a year in developing and called the experiences challenging. ''The Dialogue of Pyaasa'' was published by Om Books International on 2 February 2011 at an event held in Mumbai. Upon the release, there have been positive reviews by book critics. Shubhra Gupta, who wrote for '' The Indian Express'', said, "The dialogue is spread out imaginatively across double-spread pages ... It gives you, at a glance, what the original dialogue was like, in beautiful Hindustani ... The English version loses all its charm in translation, but it serves the useful purpose of letting non-Hindi speakers access the dialogue easily." The '' Hindustan Times'' Ishan Chaudhuri summarised that Kabir "brings us face-to-face with the non-visual ingredients: the words—helpfully translated to English and with a parallel 'original' in Hindi and Urdu scripts", and the entertainment portal Bollywood Hungama described the book "a collector's delight".

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