The colour version of Naya Daur is expected to arrive at the cinemas next January, followed by Mughal-e-Azam.

BBC: NEWS | Technology | Bollywood classics go colour

By the mid-1950s Dilip Kumar, the quintessential tragic hero of the earlier days, was challenging the system in Naya Daur, as a horse carriage driver fighting a new bus service.

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