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Jaagrti is a film of genre Drama directed by Satyen Bose with Abhi Bhattacharya
Jaagrti (1955)
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Add to a movie listJagriti ("The Awakening") is a 1954 Hindi film that won the Filmfare Best Movie Award in 1956, and the lead, Abhi Bhattacharya, won the Filmfare Best Supporting Actor Award. Based on 1949 Bengali film Paribartan that Satyen Bose had directed earlier.
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The film is about a spoiled rich kid, Ajay (Rajkumar Gupta), who is a problem child and is sent away to a boarding school by his grandfather. The board school is run by Shekhar (Abhi Bhattacharya). Shekhar tries to instill good values in the students using unorthodox teaching methods. He gains the students' trust and educates them about the heritage of their country and encourages them to become model citizens.Actors
Abhi Bhattacharya
(Superintendent Shekhar)
Bipin Gupta
(Ramapati Mukherjee)
Rajkumar Gupta
Mehmood Ali
Kanu Roy
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