CIN201Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Sitcom
Mar. 17, 2017
CIN TUTORIAL 2.9
Pyaasa
• Representative of Indian Popular Cinema:
- Similarly driven narrative romantic drama, family drama, situational comedy
- episodic rather than cause-and-effect
- Music
• The poems are all about love and class culture the poem narratives mirror the film
itself
• The business and middle class (such as the publisher and his wife) are represented as
having disdain for the lower class – the lower class is at their mercy, they are controlled
by this class, and the audience sympathizes with Vijay (the main character)
- The poems may only sell if the person is from the upper class
• Main character is comparable to Ricci from the bicycle thief
• Tracking shots are used for dramatic effect
• Film tries to get the audience to sympathize with Vijay, so when he dies it is implied that
now that the cultural barriers are broken his art can be appreciated
- When he is resurrected, he doesn’t take credit for the poetry that is now famous
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