75
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Newspaper Boy is a Malayalam–language Indian film released in 1955. It is the first neo realistic movie in the language. The film, a drama of stark realism, narrates the life of the common man on the street. The film is noteworthy in that the entire production programme from script-writing to direction was controlled and executed by students.
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Audiences 70GoodWatch 75
IMDb7.0
Running time
2 h 10 min
Longer than most dramas, +21 min on the typical 109
typical 109130Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Released
1955
May 13, 1955
71 years ago
Genre
DramaLanguage
Malayalam
Original language
Made in
India
Directing · 1
- P Ramadas Director, Writer
Writing · 1
- Nagavally R S Kurup Dialogue
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