Awara was screened in Moscow as part of a popular Indian film festival. One viewer recalled: “For years, everything was off limits to us. And then Stalin died in 1953, and the Indian film The Vagabond (Awaara/Brodiaga) opened the festival in 1954. This was, I must say, an eye-opener. It opened a new world, one which we did not know, and it came at a time when we were in a mood to celebrate.” See Sudha Rajagopalan, “Emblematic of the Thaw: Early Indian Films in Soviet Cinemas,” South Asian Popular Culture 4, no. 2 (2006), 84-85.

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