Naya Sansar

Naya Sansar (New World in English) is a 1941 Hindi 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 Award for the best story and screenplay. It had dialogues by Shaheed Latif and J.S. Kashyap. It starred Renuka Devi (1918–1989) and Ashok Kumar in lead roles. The film was written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, who was a film critic at that time, and used his journalistic background to create a story about the new rising radicalism in Indian society and journalism, through a conflict between a dynamic young reporter and his cautious yet idealistic editor of a...