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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.

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