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| File:Nayadaur2.jpg Original Hindi film poster | |
| Directed by | B. R. Chopra |
| Written by | Akhtar Mirza Kamil Rashid |
| Produced by | B. R. Chopra |
| Starring | Dilip Kumar Vyjayanthimala Ajit Jeevan Johnny Walker |
| Cinematography | M. Malhotra |
| Edited by | Pran Mehra |
| Music by | O. P. Nayyar |
| Distributed by | BR Films |
Release date |
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Running time | 173 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
| Box office | ₹54 million[1] ($11 million) |
Naya Daur (Template:Lang-en) is a 1957 Indian sports drama film, starring Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Ajit & Jeevan. It was directed and produced by B. R. Chopra, and written by Akhtar Mirza and Kamil Rashid. Madhubala was the first choice for the female lead. Originally filmed in black and white, the film was colourised and re-released on 3 August 2007. The film's plot is a "man vs. machine" underdog tale, involving a race between a village tongawallah who rides a tonga horse cart against a landlord who drives a bus.
For this film, Dilip Kumar won the Filmfare Award for Best Actor for the third time in a row, being his fourth overall. The film was later dubbed in Tamil as Pattaliyin Sabatham (Template:Lang-en) in 1958.[2] Naya Daur also inspired Aamir Khan's Academy Award nominated film Lagaan (2001).
Plot
Shankar (Dilip Kumar), a tongawala, and Krishna (Ajit Khan), a woodcutter, are best friends in a village that is self-sufficient and dependent on a timber mill for survival. Shankar meets Rajni (Vyjayanthimala) at the train station, who arrives at the village with her mother and younger brother and fall in love with each other. Krishna also sees Rajni and falls for her. The mill owner’s son, Kundan (Jeevan (actor)) who lives in the city, arrives at the village and wants to modernize and mechanize the business which he does so by getting an electronic saw thus making several workers at the mill lose their jobs. When Shankar and Krishna both come to know that they both love Rajni, they plan on deciding on who will marry Rajni. They finally decide to let God take care of their fates, by saying that if Rajni offers white flowers at the temple, she will marry Shankar and if she offers yellow flowers, then she will marry Krishna. Manju(Chand Usmani), Shankar's sister who is in love with Krishna, hears their conversation and makes a plan of her own by switching Rajni's yellow flowers with white flowers at the temple. Krishna, who sees Manju switching the flowers, thinks that Shankar has told her to do this and breaks off his friendship which leads both of them getting into a fight. Shankar, who is saddened by this, tells Rajni that he would have never even looked at her if he knew that his friend was on the line. Rajni becomes heart-broken after hearing this tells him that she can’t change her feelings for him, but he can if he wants and goes away. Kundan now introduces a bus in the village thus taking away the livelihood from the tongawalas. The tongawalas aks him to remove the bus for the betterment for the tongawalas but he refuses. Shankar tells him that what he is ding is not for the betterment for the village but for himself. Kundan tells Shankar that if he can drive his tonga faster than the bus then he will remove the bus from the village. Shankar agrees to do this but the rest of tongawalas tell him not to as the bus will be faster than the tonga. Shankar consents to the race and asks time for 3 months to prepare for the race. The rest of the tongawalas ask how will he do this and Shankar tells them his plan to build a road on the path which is 6 miles shorter than the road which leads to the temple. The villagers tell Shankar that he has gone mad and don’t support him with the making of the road and let him do it alone. Shankar, who was determined to make the road, starts to lose heart when he starts to break the road alone. But Rajni joins him in building the road saying that she will always be with him even if the whole world isn’t. This makes Shankar very happy and gets to work immediately with Rajni by his side. Soon, the rest of the tongawalas join Shankar in building the road. Krishna joins Kundan’s side and asks him to help to make sure that the road does’t get complete. The villagers, all together, overcome difficulties along the way abnd finally finish building the road. Krishna decides to take things up in his own hands and breaks the bridge made by the villagers which was the most important path of the road. Manju sees him doing this and confronts Krishna and tells him that she changed the flowers on her own and not on the wordsofher brother as she loves him. Krishna on hearing this realises his mistake and starts repairing the bridge immediately with the help of Manju. Finally the race takes place with Shankar emerging as the victor. Krishna comes to congratulate Shankar and both the friends make up with each other furthermore Shankar and Rajni untie while Krishna and Manju unite with each other.
Cast
- Dilip Kumar as Shankar
- Vyjayantimala as Rajni
- Ajit as Krishna
- Jeevan as Kundan
- Johnny Walker as Journalist
- Chand Usmani as Manju
- Nazir Hussain as Seth Maganlal
- Manmohan Krishna as Jumman Dada
- Leela Chitnis as Shankar & Manju's Mother
- Pratima Devi as Durga (Rajni's Mother)
- Kumkum as Dancer In Song "Reshmi Salwaar Kurta Jaali Ka"
- Minoo Mumtaz as Dancer In Song "Reshmi Salwaar Kurta Jaali Ka"
Production
During filming, the Naya Daur production was involved in a highly controversial and widely publicised court case. Initially, the actress Madhubala was cast as the female lead. An advance payment was given to her and shooting began and continued smoothly for 15 days. B.R. Chopra, the director, wanted the unit to travel to Bhopal for an extended outdoor shooting. Ataullah Khan, the father of Madhubala, objected to this and claimed that the entire Bhopal schedule was a ruse to give Dilip Kumar the opportunity to romance his daughter (Kumar and Madhubala were in a relationship at the time). Finally, Chopra sued Madhubala for the cash advance she received from him for a film she now had no intention of completing.
He replaced her with the South Indian actress Vyjayanthimala, who acted with Kumar in Devdas. Madhubala obediently supported her father despite her commitment to Dilip Kumar. Kumar testified against Madhubala and Ataullah Khan in favour of B.R. Chopra in open court. The case was lost by Madhubala and her father amid much negative publicity. During the case, the film was released and declared a success. Chopra dropped the case and saved Madhubala from the humiliation of a possible prison sentence.[3]
Critical reception
The Times of India wrote, "A picture with a purposeful and distinctly impressive theme Naya Daur from almost the beginning to the end, the picture sparkles with scenes and sequences filled with song, dance and revelry, which maintain with fine authenticity the rural atmosphere against the mounting tension of the drama created by the advent of the machine.. Naya Daur remains a brilliant, beautiful and very entertaining picture. Filmfare wrote, "A powerful and vibrantly gripping picture, B. R. Films' Naya Daur is a distinctly successful combination of pertinent social education and moral and top-rate entertainment."[4]
Box office
Naya Daur collected around ₹54 million, becoming the second highest-grossing film of 1957 behind Mother India.[1] This was equivalent to $11.34 million in 1957,[a] or $123 million (₹9.111 billion) adjusted for inflation.
Music
All the songs were composed by O. P. Nayyar and the lyrics were penned by Sahir Ludhianvi. Playback singers were Mohammed Rafi, Asha Bhosle, Shamshad Begum and S. Balbir.
| Song | Singer |
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| "Aana Hai To Aa" | Mohammed Rafi |
| "Dil Leke Daga Denge" | Mohammed Rafi |
| "Main Bambai Ka Babu" | Mohammed Rafi |
| "Yeh Desh Hai Veer Jawaanon Ka" | Mohammed Rafi, S. Balbir |
| "Mangke Saath Tumhara" | Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Rafi |
| "Ude Jab Jab Zulfen Teri" | Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Rafi |
| "Saathi Haath Badhaana" | Asha Bhosle, Mohammed Rafi |
| "Reshmi Salwaar, Kurta Jaali Ka" | Asha Bhosle, Shamshad Begum |
| "Ek Deewana Aate Jaate Humse Chhed Kare" | Asha Bhosle |
Legacy
Aamir Khan's Academy Award nominated film Lagaan (2001) was inspired by Naya Daur.[6][7]
Re-release
Naya Daur was colourised and re-released in 2007, along with the re-release of another film starring Dilip Kumar, Mughal-e-Azam.[8] However, this re-release failed commercially.[9]
Notes
References
- ^ a b "Box Office 1957". Boxofficeindia.com. Archived from the original on 18 September 2010. Retrieved 2 May 2011.
- ^ Pillai, Swarnavel Eswaran (2015). Madras Studios: Narrative, Genre, and Ideology in Tamil Cinema. India: SAGE Publications. p. 84. ISBN 9789351502128.
- ^ "Flashback When Dilip Kumar and Madhubala dragged each other to court". mid-day. 18 March 2016. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
- ^ "The Indian Express - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
- ^ "Pacific Exchange Rate Service" (PDF). UBC Sauder School of Business. University of British Columbia. 2016. p. 3. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 May 2015. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "I'm not aware if Big B & SRK have copied me". Filmfare. 30 April 2013.
- ^ South Asian Cinema. South Asian Cinema Foundation. 2001. p. 86.
- ^ http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2007-07-18/bollywood/27959273_1_naya-daur-dilip-kumar-colour
- ^ "Classic in colour: 50 years on, 'Hum Dono' fails to light up BO - Times of India".