Bollywood family drama, Do Bigha Zamin, directed by Bimal Roy was released in the year 1953. The movie starred Balraj Sahni and Nirupa Roy in lead roles while Murad, Rekha Mallick, Ramayan Tiwari, Nana Palsikar, Rattan Kumar, Dilip Kumar, Sarita devi and Nasir Hussain also played significant characters in the film. The hit evergreen melodious music of the movie was directed by Salil Chaudhary while the songs were beautifully sung by Mohammed Rafi, Manna Dey, Lata Mangeshkar etc.

The movie starts with a guy named Shambhu Maheto ( Balraj Sahni ), who is living alongwith his family in a village. He is a farmer. His family consists of his wife, parvati ( Nirupa Roy ). Village Zamindar wants to acquire Shambhu’s land as Shambhu had taken some loan from him. Shambhu decides to move to city so that he can arrange the required money to pay back Zamindar’s loan. He starts working a rickshaw driver in the city. One day he is offered more money from a guy who wants him to pull rickshaw faster as he wanst to chase his girlfriend, who is sitting in the another rickshaw.

Shambhu starts pulling the rickshaw with all his strength but fails to come near the another rickshaw which is actually being pulled by a horse. Shambhu tries more but in the process get injured badly. After few days, Shambhu once again comes back to his work. But his son does not like this as he wants to make his father feel relax. Shambhu’s son steals money from a shop to help his father but is arrested by police.

The songs of the movie are:

1. Ajab tori duniya ho
2. Hariyaala saawan
3. Aaja ri aa
4. Dharti kahe pukaar ke