Jagte Raho | |
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Directed by | Sombhu Mitra Amit Maitra |
Written by | K. A. Abbas |
Screenplay by | Sombhu Mitra Amit Maitra |
Story by | Sombhu Mitra Amit Maitra |
Produced by | Raj Kapoor |
Starring | Pradeep Kumar Sumitra Devi Smriti Biswas Pahari Sanyal Sulochana Chatterjee Daisy Irani Nemo Motilal Nana Palsikar Iftekhar Raj Kapoor Nargis[1] |
Cinematography | Radhu Karmakar |
Edited by | G. G. Mayekar |
Music by | Salil Chowdhury |
Distributed by | R.K. Films Ltd. |
Release date |
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Running time | 149 min. |
Country | India |
Language | Hindi/Bengali |
Box office | est. $9.33 million (₹44.4 million) |
Jagte Raho (transl. Stay Awake or Stay Alert) is a 1956 Hindi/Bengali film, directed by Amit Maitra and Sombhu Mitra, written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, and produced by and starring Raj Kapoor.[2][3][4] The film centers on the trials of a poor villager (Kapoor) who comes to a city in search of a better life. However, the naive man soon becomes trapped in a web of middle-class greed and corruption.[5] The film also features a cameo by Nargis in the final scene.[1]
It was produced in Bengali as Ek Din Raatre, starring Raj Kapoor, Chhabi Biswas, Pahari Sanyal, Nargis Dutt and Daisy Irani.[6] The film won the Crystal Globe Grand Prix at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czechoslovakia in 1957.[7]
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