On Valentine`s Day, `Pyaasa` among Time`s top romantic movies

Washington: Indian director Guru Dutt`s fifties` classic musical-drama "Pyaasa" has been listed fifth among Time magazine`s Valentine`s Day list of top Romantic Movies.For the Feb 14 day celebrating love and affection between intimate companions, "Time.com has a list - from the songs you need to ease the pain to the movies that will sweep you up in a romance nearly as epic as your own"

In picking up "Pyaasa", the Time asked: "Where did classic Hollywood go when it died?" And itself answered: "To India, where the nation`s pop cinema (Bollywood to you) still attends to antique conventions of family fealty, personal integrity and, of course, all-conquering love." "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," Time said. "`Pyaasa` means `thirst`; if this film is your introduction to the glamour and heartbreak of Indian film, it`ll leave you parched for more," it said. Here are the top ten Romantic Movies: * Son of the Sheik (1926) * Dodsworth (1936) * Camille (1936) * An Affair to Remember (1957) * Pyaasa (1957) * Jules and Jim (1962) * Chungking Express * Moulin Rouge (2001) * Talk to Her (2002) * Brokeback Mountain (2005) Bureau Report