Ranked #9 of 100
Do Bigha Zamin
दो बीघा ज़मीन · 1953
A farmer walks to Calcutta to pull a rickshaw and save two acres of land. Indian neorealism's opening statement.
- Director
- Bimal Roy
- Year
- 1953
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy
Why it's at number 9
Balraj Sahni trained by pulling a real rickshaw. Cannes' Prix International, 1954.
A farmer walks to Calcutta to pull a rickshaw and save two acres of land. Indian neorealism's opening statement.
Do Bigha Zamin sits in the 1950s alongside Pyaasa and Mother India — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Bimal Roy — also responsible for Bandini, Devdas, Madhumati.
- Released in 1953, in the 1950s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
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Film record Wikipedia — Do Bigha Zamin (1953) · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial The ranking and the case made for each placement — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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