| | 100 years of Bollywood: The films that started it all | | | | | | | | | Bandhan(1940)
Director: N R Acharya
Cast: Leela Chitnis, Ashok Kumar, Suresh
As the pyrotechnics of World War 2 spread out from Europe, Indian cinema quickly acquired deeply patriotic undertones. A stirring song from this movie, Chal Chal Re Naujawan, was written by poet Kavi Pradeep, who was to later write Aye Mere Watan Ke Logo, and established his reputation as a nationalist writer. | | | | |
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