Jagte Raho

Jagte Raho
Film poster
Directed bySombhu Mitra
Amit Maitra
Written byK. A. Abbas
Screenplay bySombhu Mitra
Amit Maitra
Story bySombhu Mitra
Amit Maitra
Produced byRaj Kapoor
StarringPradeep Kumar
Sumitra Devi
Smriti Biswas
Pahari Sanyal
Sulochana Chatterjee
Daisy Irani
Nemo
Motilal
Nana Palsikar
Iftekhar
Raj Kapoor
Nargis[1]
CinematographyRadhu Karmakar
Edited byG. G. Mayekar
Music bySalil Chowdhury
Distributed byR.K. Films Ltd.
Release date
  • 3 August 1956 (1956-08-03)
Running time
149 min.
CountryIndia
LanguageHindi/Bengali
Box officeest. $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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  2. ^ "Jagte Raho (1956) - Cinestaan.com". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  3. ^ "cast & crew". Upperstall. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  4. ^ "Jagte Raho (1956) - BollywoodMDB". www.bollywoodmdb.com. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  5. ^ Kahlon, Sukhpreet. "Jagte Raho: Revisiting Raj Kapoor's socially relevant masterpiece". Cinestaan. Archived from the original on 9 February 2018. Retrieved 9 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Ek Din Raatre". Gomolo. Archived from the original on 22 May 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2014.
  7. ^ Cite error: The named reference crystal was invoked but never defined (see the help page).

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