Nehru (film)

Nehru
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
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 (India); 8 November 2007 (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

^ 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.
^ ^a ^b "Nehru 1984". International Film Festival of India. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
^ ^a ^b Sharma, Garima (7 March 2010). "Shyam Benegal on his film Nehru". The Times of India. Retrieved 15 November 2022.
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^ ^a ^b "32nd National Film Awards (PDF)" (PDF). Directorate of Film Festivals. Retrieved 6 January 2012.