Last night i was just free and looking into my old vedios and movie cuttings storage on my laptop. There i noticed some clips which i stored long time ago. These was from a very great movie of all time and one of my best movies ever, A beautiful and greatest classic from Gurudutt, yes it is "Kaagaz Ke Phool". Let me first describe you what i saw in the clips and how i felt.
First i played clip which has starting song from the movie. It has very beautiful lyrics.
"Dekhi zamane ki yaari,
Bichde sabhi bari bari"
Gurudutt(Who was the director/producer and actor in the movie - 1959), is sitting in old studio, he is now old and not well. He is looking the movie studio where he was very famous long time before. He get lost in old memories with the song in background.
In his old and golden days, he was one of the TOP Director of film industry. People are running after him, producers, fans, actor, actress, every body is looking for him. And he is on top of the world. The lines comes from song now;-
"Waqt hai meharbaan, Aarzoo hai zawaan,
Kal ki fikar kareen kyon, itni fursat kahaan"
Wow! what a great lines.
Then i played another clip from the movie, strange this is the last clip from the movie. Vahida Rahmaan (who is actress in this movie), is now Top Actress in the film industry. Gurudutt, when he was on Top, found her. And made her a big star. And because of some circumstances (which u will find after watching movie), Gurudutt is now no more in film industry, people already forgot him. He is now become damm poor, he has nothing, no stardom, no money, nothing. He is hardly trying to find some work in any movie to get some money. So, the clip is like this. Suddenly Vahida saw the Gurudutt in a beggar attire. Gurudutt also saw her. But he does not want any sympathy from her, so he runs away. He is running, vahida (who loved her once upon a time and also gurudutt was his god father) also running behind him to catch him. A beautiful lyrics with song in background. Both are running. After sometime, he crosses a gate where so many people are there who know Vahida as Super Actress. People stop her for autograph. She is tring to get out from crowd but not succeeded. Gurudutt who is safely reach some far from her, watching her in crowd. Some beautiful lines comes:-
"Ek hath se deti hai duniya
so hatho se le leti hai,
ye khel hai kabse jaari,
bichde sabhi baari baari"
Ahh! very very touchy and emotional lines and the scene. Now flashback ends and scene returns from where movie starts, the studio. Gurudutt slowly gets down from stairs and sit on the Director seat. In Morning, studio people comes and wondering who is that old man. One old studio person comes forward, and recognized him. He comes near to Gurudutt. But, Gurudutt is Dead. Suddenly, new producer enters in the studio and shouted on everybody for wasting time and said that "Have you people not seen any dead body before?". Ohh! What a sad end of a person of a great life style. And clips ends to show the sky...
Yes, this is one and only Gurudutt, who can make this kind of heart touching and a movie which is beyond and far far away from his time. This is an impactful movie, very rare movies are there for this kind of impact. A many many variety of emotions and messages are in this movie. Like:
You are successful right now, you have wealth, people are around and after you, but one day all will go, people will forget you like you are nothing, your stardom will go. There is nothing in this world which is long lasting in terms of Popularity and Golden Periods. If you have right now, you enjoying it, you don't have fear for future, and one day that day will come when you will rare find person who is truly yours. You are alone, all alone.
If you are on Top right now, be careful, people will come to you with crowd, like they are well wishers to you. But when you have some failure in your life , they will forget you and not even help you.
The life is nothing but a beautiful dream. When this dream will over you will find yourself empty handed.
It is always a pain when you get your true love in life. People never let your love to meet you. They always have some excuse. Society always comes between your happiness and true love. But when you are very sad and in tragedy, society does not have any answers for you.
Any so many, overall, i see the movie is beyond its time and always seems me to very very true in all situation. A struggle of a person who is sucessful and his failures in life. Generally we saw in movies success of a person. But in this movie, it is shown that how circumstances, people, society makes a successful person to a failure. And moreover our hero here is very very self respective. He never compromise (i dont know , i always like this behaviour in my heros like satyakaam ), in the last scene when vahida recognize him and try to meet him, but our hero not wants to meet her. He just wanted to destroy himself, he lost everything in life, he does not need anything now. Can you imagine how a person feels when he is watching that people are praising and running after a person (vahida), who was nothing , only successful because of only him (gurudutt) , and people have forgot the actual person(Gurudutt - the creator of her). Not sure how our hero is feeling that time, but this is truth that he has lost everything in life- Stardom, Money, Family and True Love.
A must watching movie.
Thanks
Aslam Bari
