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Dharti Ke Lal (Hindi pronunciation: ['d̪ʱəɾ.t̪iː 'keː 'lɑːl]; transl. Children of the Earth) is a 1946 Hindustani film, the first directorial venture of the noted film director Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (K. A. Abbas).
Balraj Sahni with his wife Damayanti, 1936. Sahni was born on 1 May 1913 in Rawalpindi, Punjab, British India. [3] His father belonged to the Arya Samaj organization, a Hindu reformist movement, and stressed the importance of social reforms as well the independence movement also admiring individuals such as Gandhi and Tagore, which would instill an early idealism in the mind of Sahni. [4]
After Dharti Ke Lal, [3] the first Indian film to become a blockbuster at the Soviet box office was Awaara (1951), directed by Raj Kapoor and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, released in the Soviet Union in 1954. [11] Indian films had the strongest presence in the Soviet foreign blockbuster charts for four decades.
Early examples of Indian cinema's social realist movement include Dharti Ke Lal (1946), a film about the Bengal famine of 1943 directed and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, [7] and Neecha Nagar (1946), a film directed by Chetan Anand and written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas that won the Grand Prize at the first Cannes Film Festival. [8]
The Giver of Grain – an obsequious appellation used by Indian peasants for their feudal land-owners), was made into the film Dharti Ke Lal (1946) by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas – which led to his being offered work regularly as a screenwriter by Bollywood, including such popular hits as Mamta (1966) and Sharafat (1970). He wrote his film scripts in ...
Dharti Ke Lal; Dhiraj; Dhoomketu; Diamond Queen (1940 film) Dil (1946 film) Dil Ki Rani; Dillagi (1942 film) Dillagi (1949 film) Do Bhai (1947 film) Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani; Dr. Kumar; Door Chalen; Dorangia Daku; Dost (1944 film) Duhai; Dukh Sukh; Duniya Diwani; Duniya Ek Sarai; Duniya Ek Tamasha; Duniya Tumhari Hai
Dharti Ke Lal (1946), about the Bengal famine of 1943, which was one of Indian cinema's first social-realist films, [3] and opened up the overseas market for Indian films in the Soviet Union. [4] Pardesi (1957) was nominated for the Palme d'Or.
Tripti Mitra had been acting in theatre since her teens. She first acted in her cousin Bijon Bhattacharya's play Agun (Fire) in 1943. After watching her stage performance in noted IPTA play, Nabanna (Harvest) based on Bengal famine of 1943, director Khwaja Ahmad Abbas took her to Bombay to act in Gana Natya Sangha's film Dharti Ke Lal in 1943, partly based on the play.