Nehru (film)

Nehru
Directed by	Shyam Benegal Yuri Aldokhin
Written by	Shyam Benegal Vladimir Zimianin Yuri Aldokhin Aleksander Gorev
Screenplay by	Shyam Benegal Jag Mohan Shama Zaidi
Produced by	Yash Chaudhary Lyudmila Kudriavtseva
Starring	Jawaharlal Nehru Mahatma Gandhi Indira Gandhi
Narrated by	Saeed Jaffrey[1]
Cinematography	Subrata Mitra Konstantin Orozaliev
Edited by	Somnath Kulkarni Valeria Konovalova
Music by	Vanraj Bhatia Alexei Kozlov
Production companies	Films Division of India Center-Nauch-Film Studios, Moscow Sovin Films, Moscow
Release dates	1984 (1984) (India) 8 November 2007 (2007-11-08) (Lyon Asiexpo Film Festival, France)
Running time	164 min
Language	English

Nehru is a 1984 Indian English-language documentary film based on the life of Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent Republic of India.^[2][3][4] The film is directed by Shyam Benegal and Yuri Aldokhin, and produced by Films Division of India in collaboration with Center-Nauch-Film Studios, and Sovin Films, Russia with Yash Chaudhary as the executive producer.^[3][2] The film won the inaugural Best Historical Reconstruction and Compilation Film at the 32nd National Film Awards.^[5]

Awards

National Film Awards

• Best Historical Reconstruction and Compilation Film (1985).^[5]

See also

• Tryst with Destiny (1947 speech)
• The light has gone out of our lives (1948 speech)
• Our Prime Minister (1957 film)

References

1. Sherman, Taylor C. (2022). "The Myth of Nehru the Architect of Independent India". Nehru's India: A History in Seven Myths. Princeton University Press. pp. 1–20. doi:10.2307/j.ctv2fwfzqt.5.
2. "Nehru 1984". International Film Festival of India. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
3. Sharma, Garima (7 March 2010). "Shyam Benegal on his film Nehru". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
4. "Nehru (1985)". IMDb.
5. "32nd National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 6 January 2012.

External links

• Nehru at IMDb