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CHOUDHVI KA CHAND (1960) (All Time Top 99 Best Hindi Films)

The setting is the city of Lucknow in northern India, where Islamic culture flourished.  Two of the three best friends who live in this city have fallen in love with the same woman named Jameela unknowingly.  Aslam (Guru Dutt) and Nawab (Rehman) are the two friends caught in this love triangle with Jameela (Waheeda Rehman).  An integral part of any Guru Dutt film, comic relief was provided by Johnny Walker who plays Mirza Masaraddik Shaiza. SONGS Chaudhvin Ka Chand Ho Tum Mili Khak Main Mohabbat Yeh Luckhnow ki Sar-Zameen Mera Yaar Bana Hai Dulha Badle Badle Mere Sarkar Balam Se Milan Huga Bedardi Mere Saiyan Sharma Ke Agar Yun Pardanashin Dil Ki Kahani Rang Layee Hai

PYAASA (1957) (All time Top 99 Best Hindi Films)

Pyaasa (English: The Thirsty) is a 1957 Indian film produced and directed by Guru Dutt. The film tells the story of struggling poet, Vijay (Guru Dutt), trying to make his works known in post-independence India. Gulabo (Waheeda Rehman in her first major leading role in Hindi cinema), a prostitute with a heart of gold, eventually helps him get his poems published. The music was composed by S.D. Burman. With the commercial success of thrillers like Baazi, Jaal, Aar Paar and C.I.D. as well as comedies like Mr. & Mrs. '55, Guru Dutt and his studio were financially secure and established. From 1957, he could now make movies he really wanted to make, including Pyaasa. In 2002, Pyaasa was ranked at #160 on the Sight & Sound critics' and directors' poll of all-time greatest films. In 2005, Pyaasa was rated as one of the 100 best films of all time by Time Magazine, which called it "the soulfully romantic of the lot." Indiatimes Movies ranks the movie amon...