The Extended Canon
Naya Daur
नया दौर · 1957
A village of tonga drivers races a bus to prove machines need not replace them. The road is built by the villagers themselves.
- Director
- B. R. Chopra
- Year
- 1957
- Genre
- Drama
- Cast
- Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Ajit
Why it's in the canon
The clearest early statement of the man-versus-machine anxiety of Nehruvian India.
A village of tonga drivers races a bus to prove machines need not replace them. The road is built by the villagers themselves.
Naya Daur sits in the 1950s alongside Pyaasa and Mother India — a decade this canon treats as foundational.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by B. R. Chopra.
- Released in 1957, in the 1950s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Drama.
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