Jagte Raho
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| Directed by | Sombhu Mitra Amit Maitra |
| Written by | K. A. Abbas |
| Screenplay by | Sombhu Mitra Amit Maitra |
| Story by | Sombhu Mitra Amit Maitra |
| Produced by | Raj Kapoor |
| Starring | Pradeep Kumar Sumitra Devi Smriti Biswas Pahari Sanyal Sulochana Chatterjee Daisy Irani Nemo Motilal Nana Palsikar Iftekhar Raj Kapoor Nargis |
| Cinematography | Radhu Karmakar |
| Edited by | G. G. Mayekar |
| Music by | Salil Chowdhury |
| Distributed by | R.K. Films Ltd. |
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Running time | 149 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi/Bengali |
| Box office | est. $9.33 million (₹44.4 million) |
Jagte Raho (transl. Stay Awake or Stay Alert) is a 1956 Hindi/Bengali film, directed by Amit Maitra and Sombhu Mitra, written by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, and produced by and starring Raj Kapoor. The film centers on the trials of a poor villager (Kapoor) who comes to a city in search of a better life. However, the naive man soon becomes trapped in a web of middle-class greed and corruption. The film also features a cameo by Nargis in the final scene.
It was produced in Bengali as Ek Din Raatre, starring Raj Kapoor, Chhabi Biswas, Pahari Sanyal, Nargis Dutt and Daisy Irani. The film won the Crystal Globe Grand Prix at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in Czechoslovakia in 1957.