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Sunday, April 26th, 2009, 3:00 PM

NAYA DAUR

India/1957/173min/35mm LA Premiere

ArcLight Hollywood

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Director:B.R. Chopra

Screenwriter:Akhtar Mirza, Kamil Rashid

Cinematographer:M.N. Malhotra

Production Designer:Sant Singh

Editor:Pran Mehra

Music Composer:O.P. Nayyar

Cast:Dilip Kumar, Vijayanthimala, Ajit, Jeevan

Shankar is a horse-carriage driver in a small, idyllic village where the majority of the villagers, including Shankar’s best friend Krishna, work for a kind-hearted businessman at his timber factory. When the businessman goes on a religious pilgrimage, his aristocratic son Kundun takes over and replaces the factory’s workers with a machine. With half the village unemployed, the balance of their simple existence is shattered. We see this mirrored in Shankar’s shattered relationship with Krishna, when both fall in love with the same woman Rajni. Shankar wins Rajni’s heart, leading a furious Krishna to conspire to bring a bus to the village, putting Shankar and his colleagues out of work as well. Refusing to beg, Shankar challenges Kundun to a race between horse-carriage and bus to the hilltop temple, in which the loser has to leave the village.