Naya Sansar (1940)

Directed by

N. R. Acharya

Genre

drama film

Country

British Raj

Runtime

2h 38m

Rating

10.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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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