bimalda do bigha zameen be consider a gem in indian movie . the movie have a slight socialist theme a do most movie of that time . if the young generation of chinese and eastern european and russian wonder why they saw so many indian movie this socialist theme and probably be the answer . do bigha zameen win the first ever filmfare award . the movie get a special mention at the cannes film festival . the movie be about a farmer shambhu ( balraj sahni ) and who have be hit badly by a famine in bengal . the real reason of his sorrow be that the zamindaar ( land owner ) want to acquire his land on the pretext that shambhu have take some loan from him . shambhu have to pay back and hence he move to the city . the movie paint a very true picture of pre independence ( and early post independence ) india . the society be agrarian yet the farmer be poor mainly because of the fact that they have very small land holding and they be unlettered . the farmer be gullible while the land owner and money lender and the brahmin be guile . a lot of people move to the city either in the anticipation of turn there fortune or because they could not survive the atrocity of power holder . the movie have a theme that can be find in work of notable indian author munshi premchand or sarat chandra chaterjee . the most memorable scene from the movie be when shambhu push himself to his limit pull a hand pull rikshaw . the rider on the riksha offer shambhu more and more money to pull faster because he be chase ( probably ) his girlfriend in another rikshaw . note shambhu emotion and his smile in anticipation of get more . compare this with the rich class which be not worry the least about the low class plight . the low class be no more then a machine that can be operate by put in quarter . the rikshaw loose a wheel and shambhu be injure . this be the kind of movie that can not be spoil even if i be to write the entire story down for you . this be art not suspense thriller . you must watch this movie not for the story but the direction and the act ability of balraj sahni and nirupa roy ( shambhu wife ) . in all these hardship shambhu do not loose his righteousness which be the moral of the movie . shambhu son steal money to help his father only to be reproach by his father . shambhu morality be the only thing that remain his own till the end . the movie be notable for balraj sahni performance and since it be another of bimal roy movie you can expect only the best . personally i recommend any of the bimal roy movie . like other movie by him and art and commercial form of cinema be merge to produce a movie that be still look upon a a benchmark . finally the name of the movie mean two bigha of land . bigha be a unit of measure land . bigha varies from state to state . in bengal where the movie be base 3 bigha be one acre . so shambhu own only 2 . 7 sq . kilometre .