1st Filmfare Awards ( 1954 ) '' ' Winner ' '' – Best Film ; '' ' Winner ' '' – Best Director – Bimal Roy ; 1st National Film Awards ( India ) '' ' Winner ' '' – All India Certificate of Merit for Best Feature Film 7th Cannes Film Festival ( 1954 ) '' ' Winner ' '' – Prix International ( International Prize ) Nominated – Grand Prize ( Best Film ) Karlovy Vary International Film Festival '' ' Winner ' '' – Prize for Social Progress A Malayalam film directed by Ramu Kariat , based on a novel of the same name written by the renowned writer Thakazhy Shivshankar Pillai , where Music Direction was done by Salil Chowdhury
7th Cannes Film Festival
1954 Cannes Film Festival
Salil Chowdhury