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Bollywood's Rural
Successes
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Rural India has been featured in Bollywood
more often than not. Whether the dynamics of the zamindars, and
the peasants have formed the core of the films or have merely provided
a backdrop to the numerous romantic sagas, Bollywood has depicted
rural India in its rich hues.
Mother India (1957)
Director: Mehboob Khan
Cast: Nargis, Raj Kumar, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar, Kanhaiyalal
Mother India is the ultimate tribute to Indian Womanhood
and written in the golden letters in the history of Indian cinema!
This epic saga showed the sufferings of an Indian peasant woman.
The film depicted the rural life, its customs and manners, sufferings
and joys and created a totally Indian experience in milieu, detail,
characters and dramatic incidents. It was a highly charged film
and is larger than life too.
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Naya Daur (1957)
Director: BR Chopra
Cast: Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Ajit, Chand Usmani, Nasir
Hussain, Jeevan, Johnny Walker
Naya Daur basically dealt with the man vs. machine problems.
It showed the conflict between the urban India, who were trying hard
to bring in industrial revolution in the country, and rural people
who vehemently opposed the technological changes.
Ganga Jamuna (1961)
Director: Nitin Bose
Cast: Dilip Kumar, Vyjayantimala, Nasir Khan, Anwar Hussain
Ganga Jamuna was a dacoit drama. Set in the rural India, the
film highlighted the circumstances and unfavorable social system that
forced the people to take the wrong path to survive in a society,
which thrived on cast system. Ganga Jamuna was well structured
and briskly paced film and it majorly used the Bhojpuri dialect, which
made it a refreshingly and real story.
Mujhe Jeene Do (1963)
Cast: Sunil Dutt, Waheeda Rehman, Nirupa Roy, Siddhu
Director: Moni Bhattacrarya
The film revolved around the frustrated youngsters becoming dacoits
and, riding horses and looting cruel zamindars and moneylenders.
Mujhe Jeene Do showed the hardship, suffering, endless displacement
and social ostracism faced by the families of dacoits. And
it made no apology for the protagonist's descent into crime.
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