Naya Daur (1957)

A village of tonga drivers is undercut when the landlord's son brings in a motor bus, and the drivers answer by building a road and racing it. Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala lead, with Ajit; B. R. Chopra directed, and O. P. Nayyar's score — "Ude Jab Jab Zulfein Teri", "Saathi Haath Badhana" — is among the most popular ever recorded. The film is a direct argument about mechanisation and labour, made in Nehru's India and still read as the clearest statement Hindi cinema made about it. This copy is the original black and white, which the uploader marks as such — and it is the film as released. Playback is withheld here because the copy was uploaded with its format details disguised; the entry stays listed.