The magazine website has compiled a list of ten most romantic films on Valentine’s Day for those who are in ‘love’ and also ‘for people with broken &bitter hearts who finds love does not exist and if it does, it is only in the books’.
The magazine earlier in 2005 rated ‘Pyaasa’ as one of the 100 best films of all time. The film is about a struggling poet, his companionship with a prostitute and the materialism prevalent in the society.
‘Pyaasa’ in phases gives an impression of ‘Sahir Ludhiyanavi’s’ love story, who wrote the lyrics for the film which gets more prominent in the climax when the Nazm ‘Parchaiyaa’n’ by ‘Vijay’ played by Guru Dutt gets published, shown in the film. And there are other instances which can be easily drawn and collaborated with the life of ‘Sahir’ like the college reunion. But, it was Dutt’s awe inspiring direction and acting that draws the accolade.
“In this achingly lush tale of a poet whose one true friend is a prostitute, director-star Guru Dutt creates a musical drama as shimmering and ethereal as the poet’s verses, as sultry and earthy as Waheeda Rehman, the 20-year-old actress who became Guru Dutt’s mistress and muse,” the Time said while naming the film as fifth most romantic film ever made.
The other films which found their names into the list are ‘Son of the Sheik’ (1926), a Silent film, starring Rudolph Valentino as a Moroccan prince, was rated the most romantic film followed by ‘Dodsworth’ (1936), Camille (1936), Cary Grant-Deborah Kerr starrer 1957 film ‘An Affair to Remember’.
‘Jules and Jim’ (1962), a French movie, was rated at six followed by Wong Kar-wai’s ‘Chungking Express’, Nicole Kidman- Ewan McGregor starrer ‘Moulin Rouge’ (2001), Pedro Almodovar’s ‘Talk to Her’ (2002) and Ang Lee’s tale of gay love ‘Brokeback Mountain’ (2005).
