Newspaper Boy is a Malayalam–languageIndian film released in 1955. 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. The group of students were from Adarsh Kalamandir and was written and directed by P. Ramdas. The screenplay was based on a short story written by Ramadas himself.
Though the film had a shoestring budget of ₹175000 (US$2,600), featured mostly amateur actors, and was made by an inexperienced crew, Newspaper Boy was a critical success. Influenced by Italian neorealism, the film is also remembered for being the world's first commercial film made by students.
Plot
Set in Kerala of the 1950s, Newspaper Boy focuses on the lives of Appu (Master Moni), the young protagonist of the film, and the members of his impoverished family. Appu's father Sankaran Nair (Nagavally R. S. Kurup) earns a meagre living as a worker in a printing press. He is easily exploited in his work – he cannot even muster the courage to ask his employer for overdue wages. Nair's wife, Kalyani Amma (Neyyattinkara Komalam), takes care of their three children, Leela (Kumari Madhuri), Appu and Balan (Master Narendran). Kalyani Amma helps her husband by taking up the job of a housemaid in rich Madhava Menon's (G. R. Nair) house. She is treated like a slave by Menon's wife Lakshmi Amma (Adoor Pankajam). Extreme poverty forces Leela to stop her education. However Nair manages to provide education to Appu, his only hope.
'I'd read an incident in the newspaper where a young boy had stabbed a young girl to death and then a couple of months later on the news there was a story, again, of a young boy stabbing a young girl to death.
'I'd read an incident in the newspaper where a young boy had stabbed a young girl to death and then a couple of months later on the news there was a story, again, of a young boy stabbing a young girl to death.
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He worked as a newspaper delivery boy to support his family, as his father had an irregular income, his uncle Mangal Singh later informed. “Every day around 4 am, Risal would take his cycle and go to deliver newspapers,” said Mangal Singh.
He worked as a newspaper delivery boy to support his family as his father didn't have a regular income, his uncle Mangal Singh later said. 'Every day around 4am, Risal would take his cycle and go to deliver newspapers,' he added.
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When my old school, Presentation College, Reading, was demolished a decade ago, the Labour council desperately searched for famous old boys after whom they could name streets on the housing estate that replaced it.
Chicago Tribune
07 Mar 2025
Chicago Tribune
07 Mar 2025