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Naya Daur [The New Age]

Film Synopsis

A kind-hearted businessman who employs many people in a rural region of India decides to take a long pilgrimage and places his son in charge of his affairs. The boy is determined to modernise his father’s business but, in doing so, relieves many people of their livelihoods.

Shankar lives in a remote village in rural India with his mother and sister, Manju, and drives a horse-carriage for a living. The main employer in the region is a kind-hearted businessman Maganlal. When Maganlal announces that he would like to undertake a religious pilgrimage, his son, Kundan, takes over and wants to cut back on labor and mechanize the business – thus leading to loss in jobs. He also introduces a bus thus taking away business from the horse-carriage drivers. This angers the community and they ask Kundan to reconsider, and he flats refuses – but agrees to withdraw the bus provided Shankar races it with his horse-carriage. Watch the action unfold as Shankar unites a divided village, and how he sets about to keep his faith in winning this race between man and machine.

—rAjOo (gunwanti@hotmail.com)

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Film Details

Alternate Titles: The New Age

Language: Hindi

Original Production Country: India

Original Release Year: 1957

Original Distribution Company:

Production Company: B.R. Films (S.K. Malik Studios)

Executive Producer:

Producer:

Director: Baldev Raj Chopra

Writer: 

Cinematography: M.N. Malhotra

Editor: Pran Mehra

Sound Editor:

Music/Score: Omkar Prasad Nayyar

Narrator:

Other Credits:

Aspect Ratio:

Colour System: B/W

Duration: 173 mins

Restoration Details

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Country Where Restored: India

Restoration Release Date: 2009

Country Restoration First Screened: 

Lab Image Restored By: Prasad

Lab Audio Restored By: 

Restoration Sponsors: BR Films/Prasad Corporation Ltd

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Since 2012, Restoration Asia has been a showcase for the work of archives, technical service providers and distributors in their efforts to preserve the audio-visual heritage of Asia.

Restoration Asia is coordinated by OWL Studio, and is designed for archivists, scholars, students and professionals as well as those with a shared passion for the preservation and restoration of Asian Cinema & Asia’s cinematographic history.

レストレーションアジアは、アジア内外のアーカイブ、技術サービスプロバイダー、そして配給業者の仕事を紹介すると共に、アジアの映像遺産を保存する取り組みに焦点を当てます。

この継続的な技術シンポジウムは、アーキビスト、学者、学生、そしてプロフェッショナルのためにデザインされました。アジア映画とアジアの映画史の保存と復元のための情熱を共有するシンポジウムです。

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