Br chopra

This question popped its head once again in B.R.Chopras Naya Daur (1957). Prior to its release, its
script was written off by all as one suited for a documentary. Even the likes of V.Shantaram and
Mehboob Khan refused to be a part of it. B.R.Chopra decided to direct the movie himself and roped
in Dilip Kumar. In a quasi-Luddite drama, the movie raised serious questions about blind and
uncalculated industrialization of a nation, which was yet to be prepared for its after-effects. The man
versus machine drama celebrated its silver jubilee simultaneously in two theatres in Bombay. In
1957 came what can be called Indias answer to Hollywoods Gone with the Wind. Mehboob Khans
rural epic Mother India swept the masses off their feet and was a soaring success at the box office,
inspiring the most successful melodramas of the 1970s and 80s. Mother India was Indias ultimate
rural saga, which talked of all the problems faced in rural India. It was a tribute to the stoicism of this
India and its ability to bounce back after every disaster time and again over the ages. Lecherous
moneylenders, floods, hunger, overpopulation were recurring themes in this movie.