Incredibly under-rated film. This is a masterpiece!

I feel sad that a 7.8 is all this film got. A powerful, stirring, and realistic work of drama this film was. I hope that decades on, it gets attention and becomes recognized as a classic of Hindi cinema. It is on the same level as movies from the golden age of cinema (Pyaasa, Do Bigha Zamin, etc.) and deserves the same level of recognition.