''Jagriti'' () is a 1954 Indian

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-language film directed by

Satyen Bose Satyen Bose (22 January 1916 – 9 June 1993) was a film director from India. He has directed both Bengali and Hindi language films. Among his most notable films are ''Raat Aur Din, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, Dosti'', and '' Jagriti''. ''Jagriti'' w ...

. It was based on the 1949 Bengali film ''Paribartan'' that Bose had also directed. The film stars Rajkumar Gupta,

Abhi Bhattacharya Abhi Bhattacharya (20 November 1921 – 11 August 1993) was an Indian actor of Hindi and Bengali cinema, who is most remembered for his roles in films of the 1950s and the 1960s, such as '' Yatrik'' (1952), '' Jagriti'' (1954), '' Anuradha'' ...

, and

Ratan Kumar Ratan Kumar (19 March 1941 – 12 December 2016) was the screen name of the Indian born child artist who later migrated to Pakistan. He acted in Indian & Pakistani movies. He was born as Syed Nazir Ali Rizvi. He is best known for his work i ...

in the lead roles. The film won the

Filmfare Award for Best Film The Filmfare Award for Best Film is given by the '' Filmfare'' magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films. The award was first given in 1954. Here is a list of the award winners and the nominees of the respective years. Ea ...

at the

3rd Filmfare Awards The 3rd Filmfare Awards were held in 1956. ''Biraj Bahu'' and ''Jagriti'' won 2 awards each, with the former winning Best Director (for Bimal Roy) and Best Actress (for Kamini Kaushal), and the latter winning Best Film and Best Supporting Acto ...

in 1956. Bhattacharya received the

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for his outstanding performance in ''Jagriti'' at the same ceremony. ''Jagriti'' still considered one of the best children-centric films of India. The film was screened retrospectively on 14 August 2016 at the ''Independence Day Film Festival'' jointly presented by the Indian

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and

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, commemorating the 70th

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Plot

The film is about a spoiled rich kid, Ajay (Rajkumar Gupta), who is sent away to a

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by his uncle. In the hostel, Ajay meets mischievous boys like him. They have a superintendent called "King Kong". Ajay then meets Shakti, a boy with a leg missing. Shakti is a poor boy. Ajay befriends him. The days pass and the naughtiness of the boys is only increasing day by day. One day, a man called Shekhar becomes the new superintendent. He is a calm man who hardly loses his temper. When the results of an exam are out, most fail. Shekhar then introduces a new scheme of learning where the children are given leniency. All the boys listen to Shekhar barring Ajay. He starts doing the opposite of whatever Shekhar tells. Shakti tries his best to change him. One Day, Ajay kicks a boy in the stomach while playing a football match. Seeing this, Shekhar becomes furious and tells everyone to boycott Ajay and suspends him. Hurt, Ajay decides to leave the hostel and go away. Shakti tries to persuade him to not leave. He starts going after Ajay on the road to stop him. A car hits Shakti and he is taken to the hospital. Later, Shakti passes away and Ajay realises that his stubbornness was the cause of Shakti's death. Many months later, Ajay is a changed boy who stands first in class thereby fulfilling his promise to Shekhar and Shakti. Shekhar decides to leave the hostel and go. He regrets boycotting Ajay and leaves. The film ends in a song sung by Shekhar as he leaves.

Cast

as Shekhar * Pranoti Ghosh *

Bipin Gupta Bipin Gupta (21 August 1905 – 9 September 1981) was an Indian actor and artist during the 1930s and 1960s. He acted in Bengali and Hindi cinema, most notably in ''Baiju Bawra'' (1952), ''Jagriti'' (1954), '' Gharana'' (1961) and '' Khilona'' ...

* Mumtaz Begum * Rajkumar Gupta as Ajay *

as Shakti * Chandan Kumar * Dilip * Raja * Mohan Choti * Ghanshyam * Navneet * Girish * Padmakar (as Padmaker) * Nanda

Soundtrack

This movie is known for its classic patriotic songs, written by one of the greatest Indian poets and lyricists of all time,

Kavi Pradeep Kavi Pradeep (born Ramchandra Narayanji Dwivedi; 6 February 1915 – 11 December 1998), was an Indian poet and songwriter who is best known for his patriotic song "''Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo"'' written as a tribute to the soldiers who had died d ...

, and set to music by

Hemant Kumar Hemanta Mukhopadhyay (16 June 1920 – 26 September 1989), known professionally as Hemant Kumar and Hemanta Mukherjee, was a legendary Indian music composer and playback singer who primarily sang in Bengali and Hindi, as well as other Indian ...

Awards

Filmfare Award for Best Movie The Filmfare Award for Best Film is given by the ''Filmfare'' magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films. The award was first given in 1954. Here is a list of the award winners and the nominees of the respective years. Eac ...

National Film Awards The National Film Awards is the most prominent film award ceremony in India. Established in 1954, it has been administered, along with the International Film Festival of India and the Indian Panorama, by the Indian government's Directorat ...

1954 Events January * January 1 – The Soviet Union ceases to demand war reparations from West Germany. * January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting. * January 7 – Georgetown-IBM experiment: The fir ...

National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi The National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi is one of the National Film Awards presented annually by the Directorate of Film Festivals, the organisation set up by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India. It is one of several ...

- Certificate of Merit

Remake

The Pakistani film '' Bedari'' had an identical plot and the songs, with replacement of some words, and music taken directly from ''Jagriti''.Gandhi replaced with Jinnah: The story of how an ode to India was plagarised in Pakistan
by Rudradeep Bhattacharjee. '' Scroll.in''. Ratan Kumar (Syed Nazir Ali), who had moved to Pakistan with his family, acted in Bedari also.Rattan Kuma
Profile, Selected Filmography
12 November 2011 When ''Bedari'' was released in Pakistan in 1956, it too made fabulous business in the first few weeks of exhibition. However, it dawned upon the Pakistani cinemagoers that they were watching a plagiarized film. There was a mass uproar that caused public demonstrations against exhibition of the plagiarized film. The Censor Board of Pakistan immediately put a ban on this film.''Paying plagiarised tribute to Quaid''
Sayed GB Shah Bokhari (Ex-Member Censor Board), on Dawn.com

References

External links

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