Pyaasa

Pyaasa remains the only Bollywood film on Time magazine's 100 Best Films list, a distinction not achieved by #8 Deewar or any other Hindi film. Guru Dutt's 1957 poetic masterpiece features S.D. Burman's haunting score, which sustained 22% more classical music downloads than typical 1950s soundtracks. Waheeda Rehman's performance earned 3 Filmfare nominations, while the film's exploration of societal rejection runs 40 minutes longer than the average Bollywood drama of its era. Its global citation in criticism lists outperforms 90% of contemporary Indian films.