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Do Bigha Zamin (1953)
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A small Bengali landowner and his young son are in danger when their two-acre farmland where they live...
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A Cult movie !
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Balraj Sahni | ... | Shambu Maheto |
| Nirupa Roy | ... | Parvati (Paro) Maheto |
| Rattan Kumar | ... | Kanhaiya Maheto |
| Murad | ... | Thakur Harnam Singh |
| Rajyalakshmi | ... | Nayabji (as Rajlakshmi) |
| Nana Palsikar | ... | Dhangu Maheto (Shambu's dad) |
| Noor Jehan | (as Noorjahan) | |
| Nasir Hussain | ... | Rickshaw puller (as Nazir Hussain) |
| Rekha Mallick | (as Rekha) | |
| Misra | ||
| Chitra | ||
| Jagdeep | ... | Laloo Ustad, shoeshine boy |
| Sarita Devi | ||
| Dilip Kumar Jr. | ||
| Ramayan Tiwari | ... | Paro's molester (as Tiwari) |
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131 min
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Originally the film showed Nirupa Roy, the mother, dying in the climax and her husband (Balraj Sahni) gaining his piece of land despite the tragedy in his life. But when Bimal Roy's wife saw the film, she found the climax too regressive and inhumane and asked her husband to change the end. Bimal Roy re-shot the end and this time, Nirupa Roy survived but Balraj Sahni lost his piece of land.
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ajab tori duniya ho mere raaja
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Made in 1953, with a socialist theme that was typical of many great bengali directors, this was a great film with superlative performances and very real feel to the film. Balraj Sahni, one of the five greatest actors of India ever, was simply stunning in this movie in terms of his natural acting and superior understanding of the life of a peasant first and then a novice rickshaw (two wheel cart pulled by a human, instead of the horse) puller fresh in the city (He naturally doesn't know that once u take a passenger to the destination, u have to hold it down so that the passenger can alight - he nervously waits for his first dime)..Ill have to come back and write more..sorry