Naya Sansar

Naya Sansar
Directed byN. R. Acharya
Written by
Screenplay by
Story byKhwaja Ahmad Abbas
Produced byBombay Talkies
Starring
CinematographyR. D. Pareenja
Music by
Release date
  • 1941 (1941)
Running time
158 minutes
CountryIndia
LanguageHindustani

Naya Sansar ("New World") is a 1941 Indian Hindustani-language film on radical journalism, directed by reporter turned director, N. R. Acharya (1909–1993), and written by a journalist himself, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, who started his film career with this film. It won him the Bengal Film Journalists' Association Award for the best story and screenplay.[1][2]

It features dialogues by Shaheed Latif and J. S. Kashyap; and stars Renuka Devi (1918–1989) and Ashok Kumar in the lead roles.This film later inspired Khwaja Ahmad Abbas to name his production house as "Naya Sansar" Productions

  1. ^ "Gomolo.com". Archived from the original on 2 March 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2012.
  2. ^ Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (1999). Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema. British Film Institute. ISBN 9780851706696. Retrieved 23 July 2012.