Thirst

Vijay, a talented but indigent poet, struggles for love and recognition in this selfish world. Vijay a poet whose work is not taken seriously by the publishers even his elder brothers dislike him for the same and want him to find a suitable job.Due to all this Vijay leaves his house and starts living alone where once he encounters a prostitute Gulabo murmuring his poem and follows her but she feels he is an impostor.But Gulabo soon realizes her mistake and meets him and both develop feeling for each other he comes across Ghosh a publisher who wants to publish his poems but in turn hires him as a servant.Vijay finds that his former lover Meena is married to Ghosh for financial security and when Ghosh finds about it he fires him from work.Vijay is again left jobless and no where a beggar whom Vijay gave his coat meets with a train accident and everyone believes he is dead.But Vijay is very much alive and tries to prove his identity but his sent to an asylum where his brothers and Ghosh refuse to identify him. —alex.mjacko@gmail.com Unemployed Vijay is the youngest in his family consisting of his widowed mom, and two brothers. His passion is poetry - frowned upon by his brothers - who want him to find gainful employment instead. Vijay's poems are quite radical in which he laments about the poor, the destitute, and the arrogance of the rich after the departure of the British from India. His efforts to get them published are in vain. He takes to drinking, gets in trouble with the law, is disowned by his brothers, ends up at a brothel and befriends a prostitute named Gulabo. Gulabo is sympathetic, listens to him as he pours his heart out, and decides to assist Vijay. Watch what happens when Gulabo approaches some of her affluent clientèle to assist Vijay and try and get his work published, without revealing that they are written by an alcoholic, disheveled, homeless man. —rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)