Jagte Raho (1956)

Original title

जागते रहो

Directed by

Amit Maitra, Sombhu Mitra

Genre

drama film

Country

India

Runtime

2h 18m

Rated

U

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A poor villager moves to the city hoping for a better life. He ends up trapped by the greed and corruption of the middle-class people he encounters.

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What happens

Jagte Raho (transl. Stay Awake or Stay Alert) is a 1956 Hindi/Bengali film, directed by Amit Maitra and Sombhu Mitra, written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, and produced by and starring Raj Kapoor. The film centers on the trials of a poor villager (Kapoor) who comes to a city in search of a better life. However, the naive man soon becomes trapped in a web of middle-class greed and corruption. The film also features a cameo by Nargis in the final scene. It was produced in Bengali as Ek Din Raatre, starring Raj Kapoor, Chhabi Biswas, Pahari Sanyal, Nargis Dutt and Daisy Irani. The film won the Crystal Globe Grand Prix at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czechoslovakia in 1957. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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