Naya Daur (Colour) (2007) [BOL0038]

白黒作品だったものに色をつけた作品。
きこりのShankarとKrishunaはRajniをめぐって敵対している。町からやってきたKundonが手っ取り早く儲けようと電動ノコギリを使い始めることで幸せな村だったMaganlalに不幸をもたらす。
新しい技術の誤った使い方がもたらす富と不幸について考えさせられる。

A story about love, friendship & Social justice, Naya Daur tells the tale of two friends, Shankar the 'tangawala' & Krishna the wood cutter, who turn foes over the love of Rajni. Conflicts arise when Kundan the citybred son of Seth Maganlal in his greed for quick profits mechanizes the saw mill and brings misery to the once happy village of Karanpur The incidents which then unfold give rise to an emotional and economic upheaval that provides the dramatic thrills and the story's moral; that it is wrong to misuse the immense potentialities of the machine to create prosperity, by making it create money for the sake of a few and generate unhappiness and misery for thousands.

Watch the action that unfolds as Shankar unites a divided village, and he sets about to keep his faith in winning this race between man and machine.