Bazar (1949)

Impecunious poet Parwana runs away from home with his pal Jagu to join a theatrical company. On the way they come across a gypsy camp and Jagu picks up gypsy dancer Koel and they fall in love. Parwana and Jagu soon cross swords with Khanna of Khanna Theatres, whose main attraction is beautiful and temperamental dancer Bijli, who is attracted by Parwana's poetry and physique. Parwana, Jagu, and Koel are soon working in Khanna Theatres. Parwana and Bijli fall in love, and Khanna gets jealous because he's in love with Bijli. Soon comes a showdown and Bijli walks out of Khanna Theatres arm-in-arm with Parwana and his stooges. The new team tries to start its own theatre business but love-stricken Khanna becomes vindictive and with his influence and money hounds them from place to place until Parwana and Bijli are ruined and heartbroken. In a desperate attempt to save Paiwana's poetic soul, Bijli, sacrificing her love for him, compromises matters with Khanna who helps to put Parwana on the stage once again. But Parwana needs more than mere success to feel happy, and soon he returns heartbroken to his parents' home, a sadder but wiser man. Now Parwana dedicates himself to national service. Khanna, realizing the intensity of Bijli's love for Parwana, gracefully gives her up and all rush to a public meeting for their individual professions and confessions. Evidently any place is good enough for the Punjabis to express their love, and a large crowd does not deter Bijli from expressing her love for Parwana on a public platform. It ends well.