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Naya Sansar (1940)

Naya Sansar poster
Directed by
N. R. Acharya
Genre
drama film
Country
British Raj
Runtime
2h 38m
Rating
10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A journalist fights for press freedom in British India. The story centers on a newspaper editor who faces pressure and danger for publishing the truth.

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What happens

Naya Sansar ("New World") is a 1941 Indian Hindustani-language film on radical journalism, directed by reporter turned director, N. R. Acharya (1909–1993), and written by a journalist himself, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, who started his film career with this film. It won him the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award for the best story and screenplay. It features dialogues by Shaheed Latif and J. S. Kashyap; and stars Renuka Devi (1918–1989) and Ashok Kumar in the lead roles.This film later inspired Khwaja Ahmad Abbas to name his production house as "Naya Sansar" Productions (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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