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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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