Bimal Roy's 1953 film Do Bigha Zamin can be called one of Bollywood's most famous black-and-white films.
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The film examines the unforgiving nature of poverty that does not allow its victims to escape.
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Do Bigha Zamin is about a poor farmer who gets entangled in the web of a zamindar’s debt when he refuses to sell his small land holdings.
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Do you know the film was inspired by the ground-breaking Italian film Bicycle Thieves (1948)?
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Balraj Sahni, Nirupa Roy, Ratan Kumar, Meena Kumari and Nana Palsikar were a part of the film.
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You can watch Do Bigha Zamin on YouTube.
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