is not a city, but a dream.”

The main cast of the film included Dilipraj, Surekha, David, Nana Palikar, Anwar Hussain, Rashid Khan and Manmohan Krishna. Ali Sardar Jafri wrote the lyrics and J.P. Kaushik was the music director. He provided the music which made the hustle and bustle of the cosmopolitan life alive.

Abbas was not happy the way mainstream Indian Cinema, especially, the Hindi Cinema grew after independence. He felt that the Cinema after independence lost the commitment and patriotic fervor it had before independence. In an interview recorded on 1-2-1970 (Available with centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridge) Abbas has voiced his analysis of the transformation of the Indian Hindi Cinema after independence:

I am afraid; there has not been a very marked or a veryhealthy development of aesthetic or sociological standards in film production in India since independence. There are many reasons for this, some of which are implicit in the medium of the cinema and the other, and more important reasons, are implicit in the mood and the sentiment of the people of the country. (19 transcript)

Abbas tries to trace the cause of this decline in standards and finds that the partition of the country and its aftermath together with the inability of the state to respond as per the expectations of the people made people disillusioned and they tried to seek some sort of an escape in cinema. The industry went a step ahead to satisfy this urge of the people and landed itself into a world of fantasy and