Naya Sansar (1941 film)

Naya Sansar
Directed by	N. R. Acharya
Produced by	Bombay Talkies
Written by	Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (dialogue); J.S. Kashyap (dialogue); Shaheed Latif (dialogue)
Screenplay by	Khwaja Ahmad Abbas; Gyan Mukherjee
Story by	Khwaja Ahmad Abbas
Starring	Renuka Devi; Ashok Kumar; Mubarak
Music by	Saraswati Devi; Ramchandra Pal; Pradeep (lyrics)
Cinematography	R. D. Pareenja
Release date	1941; ; ; ; ;
Running time	158 minutes
Country	British India
Language	Hindi-Urdu

Naya Sansar ("New World") is a 1941 Indian Hindi-Urdu 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.

It features dialogues by Shaheed Latif and J. S. Kashyap; and stars Renuka Devi (1918–1989) and Ashok Kumar in the lead roles.

Overview

The film was written by Abbas, who was a film critic at that time. He used his journalistic background to create a story about the rising radicalism in Indian society and journalism. The story addressed the conflict between a dynamic young reporter and his cautious, yet idealistic, editor of the fictional progressive newspaper, 'Sansar'. The story line revolved around the editor, Premchand (Mubarak), who is in love with a beautiful orphan named Asha (Renuka Devi), whom his family has raised from an infant. Soon after Asha starts working for the paper, she falls in love with Sansar's star reporter and dedicated radical-journalist, Puran (Ashok Kumar). Asha, however, still feels indebted to Premchand's family.

When Premchand starts to hedge on his radicalism by dealing with the evil Dhaniram, Puran quits, and starts his own newspaper, "Naya Sansar". Premchand quickly sees the error of his ways, and not only returns to the paper's previous left-wing stance, but also condones the marriage of Asha and Puran.