That girl explaining India in 1967 is still so relevant in 2023!!! Long queues of people for ration/buses, people hanging from local trains, selling of tickets in black
Today there's plenty of food available on the open market ... in 1967 we teacher trainees at our hostel had to queue up for a small cup of sugar which was our week's supply ! Many things were far better back then ... I could wear whatever I wanted without being tormented for wearing so called " Western Dress " and felt very safe !😊😊
Damn how am I watching this so late? The guy who said I don’t have any love for the country. Imagine saying that today, people would beat him up calling him anti national.
I am 89 years old. Live in Long Beach, California. This inspired me to gho back to India, and see what I saw 89 years ago. I am a graduate of BDT College of Engineering in Davengere Mysore India. So indebeted to the BDT Family. B=Bramhappa D= Devendrapa T= Tranappa navara. Thanks again I did every thing my heart desired because of your donation. Naresh
@@AbhijeetKumarViVi Please understand, Mahatma Gandhi is credited with "A bloodless revolution". The joke is that it was not a bloodless revolution. You can not say he did it intentionally. I saw the BLOOD. Worlds worse blood bath.
Here after Chandrayaan 3 landed. A lot of people in this video would be shocked, some very happy. As for me? I’m just savouring this moment and taking it all in! Always a proud Indian 🇮🇳
I am surprised to see such youngsters in those times. They were far more free thinkers than we r today and have great personality of their own. Bravo! One of d best documentaries. Esp P N Subramanian (i hope spelling is right) is outstanding person. Wish we could trace about his life and know what he acheived in his lifetime.
Yeah. He would have left this country because may be he would have envisaged a lot about the future which was not happened.. May be because of the reason he is a General Category person..
These people do not represent majority of India. Of you consider the year 1967, these all people are getting English education and technical education, so they are from very rich families
@@sudarshan3965 It's mixture of people who are in 20's - Rich, Poor, Middle class everyone who are in their 20's and what their ambitions, ideologies are.
To all the people commenting about the good English and that they must be the cream layer of the country, I would like to tell that my grandfather was a clerk at a Fertilizer company. He was among those who have studied in the lights of lantern and used to work in fields after work or study. He is from a small village in Bihar, and still when I sometimes discover any thing written by him or read by him they are in english. And my mother used to tell me that he could really write and speak english very well(though in his school it started from class 5th). So I think it is because of the preference given to English in those times(due to British influence) that they speak so well.
I agree. I hear the same about my great-grandfather. There must be some truth to how English was given preference and so a lot of people knew how to speak the language. . It's the same with the Koreans. A lot of older gen folks can speak fluent Japanese, because they were ruled by Japan.
If you could also pay attention to the vocabulary, it is so rich. I've had the chance to see some books from my grandfather's time ; The quality is unrivalled be it in terms of speech, clarity, vocabulary, ideas.. Something we don't see a lot these days
I am baffled by the way they spoke confidently and presented their opinions and dreams and ambitions. The scientific, artistic, administrative, nation serving temperament at 1967 is the basement of what we are today. I am 20 is a marvelous piece of documentary i have ever seen. Thanks good old Information and Broadcasting Team and Film Division which made such gems.
Why baffled?...are you assuming previous generations any less educated or knowledgeable....they were free thinkers, remember the movies of this golden era...they r anyday better than the trash we see....yes the maker was a bit selective, picking primarily the urban crowd.
@@jayadeepnayak3504i see a few from public service, like police and pilot, also there are a few farmers, how come they were from IIT, it could be that he chose confident ones in the compilation
Seeing this makes you realize that our generation neither remembers the struggle our ancestors fought for that Idea of India and its values nor has any interest left in them to grasp and acknowledge and cherish those ideas. We take everything for granted and are conditioned from birth to live an unexamined life!
T.N Subramanian has Enthralled S.N Sastry ( director ) He had been given maximum Airtime & is well articulated.The documentary ends with his words -"it's a huge experiment& i would like to be part of it".Eventually this gentleman also left india,Never to be part of the experiment.
@@naamnei A writer went looking for all of these people in the video, and he located TN Subramanian in Troy, Michigan in the US at 68 years of age. I couldn't find any more of what happened exactly, but he passed away in 2015: months after the writer had located him. As far as I know, he could not get in contact with him or their family after that.
“What do you want me to do? I can do enough by being an honest citizen, by doing my job best to my ability by working 8 hrs a day by not complaining” Simple solution for complicated problems quoted in one good sentence, u need not need to be in power to make ur country best, jus be responsible to your role. Nailed it❤
This has to be the one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. The direction, editing, photography; everything is so perfectly done. I would have never expected such quality from an old documentary.
Film makers in those days were highly influenced by HOLLYWOOD in the crafts of Editing, Cinematography, Direction. Film makers today don't concentrate on the crafts rather they concentrate on the MASS Entertainment.
Wow! Not only were they fluent in their speech and delivery, but they also seemed to have minds that were even more advanced than those of modern India. Their outlooks and goals for the country and themselves are so inquiring and even upbeat. Their determination to face obstacles in life soars from the video and into our hearts. Well done, and Jai Hind.
This documentary is a masterpiece. Never expected the youngsters of those days to be so open and confident in their thoughts and their voices. Especially the articulation of youth, it is wonderful. Perhaps it was the rub off effect of our great leaders of that time or may be our education system was doing a better job at that time. It was actually educating rather than only making them literate.
Dis education doesn’t come from books but from life. A life where dey struggled more Dan our generation. A life which was all about playing with others and outside gaining experiences instead of playing on phones or watching tv.
Those youngsters had real freedom. They had there own opinions. They talked what they had experienced. Today's youngsters are influenced by garbage content in social media. We lost our ability of critical thinking.
So confident, so open, beautiful thoughts and hopes and so much of belief in the country. Strong Youth, this video must be nationally telecasted to show the present generation, how much of determination, perseverance, resilient and agility the youth represented. I am just amazed and stunned by our older generation. A salute to them !
The quality of documentary making, ideas, public speaking, thinking that was found in those days is sadly missing from programmes these days. Kudos to films division to carefully preserve and make available these gems from the past.
@@abhishekkhandelwal3582 I don't know if you're interested in this video anymore since it's been so long but If you are then I'd suggest you to watch "Where are they now" by India in Pixels. He talks about a lot of the people from this video and where they are now. The cog in the machine guy is actually not some simple CEO. He has a building/wing (can't remember exactly) of IIT Bombay named after himself and many more accomplishments that i can't currently list, He has truly achieved a lot. If you're interested in this topic then please do watch!
No brother, the people that you see in this video are very very few of that time. In the year 1967 who could afford such a good education. These people do not represent majority of India
@@rahulmohanty I want to say that, in the year 1967 there was so much poverty in India and if these people can afford good English education and some are even studying technical education then they must be from very rich families living in the main cities like Delhi, Mumbai or Kolkata. Hence this people do not represent the majority of Indians that were living in that time. So we cannot come to a conclusion about India of that time on the basis of what these people think.
@@sudarshan3965 No sir, these people were essentially middle class, were best men or women academically in this country, who perched up really high in their lives professionally, all the men interviewed were actually from IIT Bombay
The young men and women who studied in colleges and universities then in 1960's were better read as books, journals, magazines, newspapers of all disciplines, subjects were available in most higher education institutes. Ofcourse it was small percentage of young population. Opportunity were very less. Today when information is available at your fingure tips due to internet and mobile most youngsters are blinded by social media limiting their divergence of thinking.
It is funny how these people speak better than the people of today.. English is much better than most 20 years olds.. Even those who say they aren't educated speak so well, with respect and dignity even when they aren't happy about a lot of things..
That's a fallacy. These select group of individuals the film crew selected for the documentary does not reflect the rest of the nation. You can still find, in fact a lot more, such people now with the increase of educational facilities and the internet.
I am 38 and some months now, yes, born in 83’. I really loved those days of our nations culture, being religious & being sanskari, and everything else. I was huge fan of our nation’s movies, our dialogues, our songs were made with feelings in them, they had emotions in them, but now, it has all become natak without emotions & feelings, I hate todays BULLYWOOD, worthless to even watch trailers of them. Nowadays everything seems fake. I really miss those days, those people. I miss that era of humanity…😔😔
Although i am just 17 ,but i also somehow have same view like yours. When ever i watch my parent's old photos ,i always have feeling of going to that period of time ,basically pre India before 2005. I always think how much nation used to love bollywood back then hearing stories from my mum. And also want to see sachin bat in the 90s and how he held together the whole nation.
"....a question of not to what the country can do for you as much as you can do for the country, of course frustration is in fashion today but I think deep within every indian despite all this frustration we are underestimating him/her, he/she has a capacity to work." still makes very much sense, despite all the things from the past, India has made progress in almost every sector and now we are not only competing with developed countries but also leading many works that were someday led by the big nations, though it was great to hear opinions and the lifestyle of youth of that time. Jai Hind
I was 18 in 1967.I’m feeling so proud to see & hear these young educated people, full of dreams, and that certain ‘drive’ we had those days. The drive to do something.As the bengali boy said, not to feel proud of Pataudi’s century, but to achieve something on your own. Exactly! We felt free in our minds,truly.The power was in our minds- not in material goodies, of which we felt deprived but soldiered on. That was a Nehruvian gift: although pretty ‘deprived’ materially,we felt truly free to think for ourselves/ express ourselves. Something I miss today.. I find the young sadly conformist today.(with some exceptions as always). And of course we spoke far better than English those days. There were convents even in smaller centres like Patna, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, etc, where we got an all-round education.We didn’t come from wealthy families- just middle class. Education was not expensive The ‘English’ spoken today makes me groan in pain.The English language has been ruined by ‘managementese’… management’lish’.I felt happy to watch this documentary..to come across people like me… forward looking, bold, happy & smiling. We liked to sing, dance, read,take part in cultural activities.
It’s still so sad to hear when u say education is all about speaking English. 😢 even if I go by ur idea, language is self evolving. We don’t speak like u, u don’t speak like Shakespeare. So y Der is comparison of speaking better English.
why is no such films not made anymore!! These are gems and the reflection of the extremes shown in single film. I would say make more such contents in today's time as well
I want to say how beautiful is this documentary and the fact that although India was robbed of its culture it's wealth and ofcourse it's independence.......the youth at that still was hopeful about India as it's best...
My grandmother was 20 during this year 1967 so I could see this generation quite clearly. My grandmother has written numerous poems in punjabi about the the 65' war, indo pak relations, about her father and the society. And when I look at myself and I ask myself that what have I achieved just read some books nothing more. I wish I was born back then that era was slow paced but it had that sincerity. Maybe I'll do something better as I'm 19 not much time has slipped. How foolish of me to say that last line.
You're motivated, humble & realized person. Keep that up :) you've achieved not many at my age have. In the future when you feel demotivated for any reason, read your own comment to push yourself. Good luck buddy :) And I really hope things change for better for next generations.
This video is a masterpiece. It lets you travel the past and feel what the people in it are expressing. It's unimaginable that this was shot on 1967. Such a gem❤
I discovered this gold on 21st March, 2022. I think, We have very good future ahead. I am 22 year old. I am appearing for UPSC this year. Good Luck My Fellow Indian. Let's make India Shine again.
What a great documentary. People were thinkers and real . We have lost India to tik tokers today , adding fake filters to their Instagram life for 5 mins of instant gratification. Hope we get our JC Bose and Vishweshwaraih back
I love how this content has been presented those days were pure gold I know why! the confidence in the voice and the people with smartest brains Nowadays world is a pure rubbish i dont where the youth is going. I can guarantee if you compare today's 20 year old and them they're far way better off....
Wow. This is so insightful. For some reason I can still resonate things which the 20 years old felt in 1967 , in 2023. Progress is 100% there. But these things they are still very alive. How to say it but it is what it is.
TN Subramaniam (Taruvai, Thirunelveli Neelakantan) spoke brilliantly. Wonder what led him to leave to the US for prospects than be a part of India experiment he talked about.
I can see how our youth has similar foundational opinions and values even this day. The only difference, we are not as candid and forthright in our opinions. We try so hard to make it look unique. Even if someone aspires something very basic like joining the civil services, they will have an essay on how unique their choice is.
My father was 22 years old in 1967... I could see his optimistic thoughts about our nation of that generation, who are not so blessed with the resources we have today... who provided me with a good education with whatever he had, did the optimum best for me...
Our real growth started in 1991 after economic liberalization, just take a look at our poverty rate, per capita income etc. you will see that things took a dramatic turn after that
I wonder when we reach 100 years of Independence how relevant the words of these people will still hold true. The opinions and ambitions of these young people from 50 years ago still hold true today in 2022, with almost similar problems being faced. Maybe with even more disharmony among our population than before. I wonder if there will ever come a time when we can genuinely unitedly say we have overcome the barriers of progression.
I Am 20 I Will Serve My Country I Will Feed As Many As I Can I Will A Part Of India's Diplomacy I Will Engineer / Design Solutions to impove Quality Of Life I Will Be Consciously Alive I Will Be Remembered After My Death I Will Change The World I Will Design The Magnificent I Will to die Like The PM Atal Bihari Vajpaye When I Will Die Whole World Cry I Will Die With Satisfaction India Is Changing At a Speed Which No One Can't Imagine and No Ons Can Stop It And Yes I Am Integral Part Of India and We Are In A Big Experiment I assure My Self When I Will Die Whole World Would a great place to Live
Well to compare the youth at that time did not have much resources but was still much more mature and aware than today's who have abundance of resources. Also to note that how beautiful are they in their simplicity!!😍
Youth of the yesteryears had so many doubts and hopes. Thought few sectors can still improve, seems India has risen from the ashes. Thanks to Aarsh Limbadia of CineCuration channel for recommending this masterpiece.
One can see the disparity. That's the one thing constant. It was there 70 years ago. It still exists now. Our government has given education to the population, but has not tackled the basic ignorance.
2:03 such a astonishing voice and that boy in the starting is a free and a very intelligent thinker would have loved to have a chat with him share and exchange some thoughts about our country ❤️❤️
This is beautiful. It's also important to note that most of the people shown would be in the top 1% of Indians. Educated, cultured. Knowing much about the world and respecting their own country as well. I am so glad that the film maker also included so many girls and their opinions. For that time, this documentary is highly advance. I also noticed that people are much the same though. Science, govt jobs, law also.
There should be part 2 where same bunch of individuals are interviewed to talk about how things went in retrospect. Ideally 1997 would have been a good time for that interview. What turns their lives took? And where they see us as a nation?
I'm a 17 year old and all my life I've had this idea that back in those days, india must've been really basic. Middle class families not being able to afford education, the lack of knowledge in english, all the girls with their heads bowed down working 24 hours in the kitchen. Thats the image i always had in mind of the 50s and 60s. Ofcourse, i was aware of the writers whose poems we read today in our english textbooks. I thought it was just one out of fifty people who had that imagination but today, I realized that maximum youth of that generation had been so thoughtful about everything. My dadu has ofcourse told me a lot about his struggles back in bangladesh. So ive never really known what life was exactly like in India. This video was eye opening to me. It's surreal how their confidence, expression and thoughts were carried out with so much politeness and elegance.
Its a masterpiece❤..my father must be just a 8yr old kid then...the people really had a progressive approach towards life....we have progressed alot as we celebrate 77th year of our Independence.
Could see the differences among the youths thinking between 16:26 to 16:47. The former guy seemed very pessimistic, and the latter was pretty bold, intelluctual & visionary!!
Both povs r important to b honest. The former may sound pessimistic but actually it is a valid criticism , and ofc he did not mean to denigrate. He is just trying to convey the practical reality in a hyperbolic fashion to emphasize on his point.
Wonder how all these young men and women in the documentary are doing today! I am sure some have migrated overseas. How did the young man who promised to ride out the "experiment" of India do? This documentary is indeed a goldmine!
India in pixels did a follow video to it titled where are they now. Unfortunately the experiment guy left for US soon after his graduation and never came back.
Amazing documentary....you really feel connected with the generation to their dreams , aspirations & requirements. Hope they all achieved whatever they wanted to.. thanks for sharing
Amazed me to skies, I feel we are progressed a lot from 1967 but we are not progessed by thoughts ... They have very clear vision about their retirement.... I was unable to choose my career till I was 24.... I see as we grow we lack in sticking to our vision
@@YashSharma-wu7kr As of 2020 the life expectancy in India is 69.7 years so the chances of them being alive is less likely...anyway some might be so maybe you r right...but "most of them are dead" still holds true
That girl explaining India in 1967 is still so relevant in 2023!!! Long queues of people for ration/buses, people hanging from local trains, selling of tickets in black
57 years! no changes?
Today there's plenty of food available on the open market ... in 1967 we teacher trainees at our hostel had to queue up for a small cup of sugar which was our week's supply !
Many things were far better back then ... I could wear whatever I wanted without being tormented for wearing so called " Western Dress " and felt very safe !😊😊
"Progress? Of course, we made progress ... But after all a child would grow up even if it didn't have the sufficient nourishment." Shots fired
My man was spitting straight facts!
The shade 💀
That guy was speaking stuff with a lot of irony.
@@anirudhgoud5035 He's super successful tho
@@anirudhgoud5035 he is super successful guy
Damn how am I watching this so late? The guy who said I don’t have any love for the country. Imagine saying that today, people would beat him up calling him anti national.
But ye usne galat kaha jin logo ne use ajad kraya unka hi majak bna rha hai wo
@@MerryLibrary-ph8eu Proving the point even more
@@MerryLibrary-ph8eu bro different people have different opinions don’t push ur thoughts on them
Jitni samajh us waqt ke 20 year old logo ki thi, utni toh aaj kal ke 40-50 ki age ke logo ki vi nahi hai.
"Frustration is in fashion today" --damn!
still it is
What are the other options we have? Accepting the mess around you and being cynical?
@@sudarshanrai4773 maybe We are something big in makin wdk
@@sudarshanrai4773 these cogs in the wheels were to be held responsible for nation-building at an early stage
"I don't think there's any future left for us, all we have is a big past to boast about"- damn ok.
It's 2020's India
right right
Felt like a statement made in 2021.
This guy pointed about over population in 60s, if people really had focused on this maybe we would have stayed below 100cr
@@YashSharma-wu7kr no way 2022
I am 89 years old. Live in Long Beach, California. This inspired me to gho back to India, and see what I saw 89 years ago.
I am a graduate of BDT College of Engineering in Davengere Mysore India. So indebeted to the BDT Family.
B=Bramhappa D= Devendrapa T= Tranappa navara.
Thanks again
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Were you born & brought up in USA too?
@@kdjoshi726 No In British India. I saw the 1947 riots. Mahatma Gandhi created a blood less resolution in which a lot of blood was shed.
@@nareshvasishth4034 are you sure it was Gandhi who was responsible for 1947 bloodbath across subcontinent?
@@kdjoshi726 No. I was in Delhi in 1947, and witnessed the riots in full glory.
@@AbhijeetKumarViVi Please understand, Mahatma Gandhi is credited with "A bloodless revolution".
The joke is that it was not a bloodless revolution.
You can not say he did it intentionally. I saw the BLOOD. Worlds worse blood bath.
Here after Chandrayaan 3 landed. A lot of people in this video would be shocked, some very happy. As for me? I’m just savouring this moment and taking it all in! Always a proud Indian 🇮🇳
Still 80cr people are in free food scheme in india...
I am surprised to see such youngsters in those times. They were far more free thinkers than we r today and have great personality of their own. Bravo! One of d best documentaries. Esp P N Subramanian (i hope spelling is right) is outstanding person. Wish we could trace about his life and know what he acheived in his lifetime.
Yeah. He would have left this country because may be he would have envisaged a lot about the future which was not happened.. May be because of the reason he is a General Category person..
These people do not represent majority of India. Of you consider the year 1967, these all people are getting English education and technical education, so they are from very rich families
@@gauravswaroop5373 many many thanks for this link.
P N Subramanian is in Troy, Michigan
@@sudarshan3965 It's mixture of people who are in 20's - Rich, Poor, Middle class everyone who are in their 20's and what their ambitions, ideologies are.
To all the people commenting about the good English and that they must be the cream layer of the country, I would like to tell that my grandfather was a clerk at a Fertilizer company. He was among those who have studied in the lights of lantern and used to work in fields after work or study. He is from a small village in Bihar, and still when I sometimes discover any thing written by him or read by him they are in english. And my mother used to tell me that he could really write and speak english very well(though in his school it started from class 5th). So I think it is because of the preference given to English in those times(due to British influence) that they speak so well.
They were actually students of IIT Bombay.
I agree. I hear the same about my great-grandfather. There must be some truth to how English was given preference and so a lot of people knew how to speak the language.
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It's the same with the Koreans. A lot of older gen folks can speak fluent Japanese, because they were ruled by Japan.
If you could also pay attention to the vocabulary, it is so rich. I've had the chance to see some books from my grandfather's time ; The quality is unrivalled be it in terms of speech, clarity, vocabulary, ideas.. Something we don't see a lot these days
They are intelligent brain of India pursing iit
Well it's still the same case. We still prefer English now although now it's more because of American culture than British influence
I am baffled by the way they spoke confidently and presented their opinions and dreams and ambitions. The scientific, artistic, administrative, nation serving temperament at 1967 is the basement of what we are today. I am 20 is a marvelous piece of documentary i have ever seen. Thanks good old Information and Broadcasting Team and Film Division which made such gems.
may be cherry picking ... may be they shot 50 interviews and showed only 10 best ... rest remained in some archive collection of films division
Mr. S.N.S Sastry chose to interview Students from IIT Bombay.
Why baffled?...are you assuming previous generations any less educated or knowledgeable....they were free thinkers, remember the movies of this golden era...they r anyday better than the trash we see....yes the maker was a bit selective, picking primarily the urban crowd.
@@jayadeepnayak3504i see a few from public service, like police and pilot, also there are a few farmers, how come they were from IIT, it could be that he chose confident ones in the compilation
This is like a time capsule, A timeless piece of artwork!
Broke my heart to see this beautiful documentary. Felt like NOTHING has changed.
Seeing this makes you realize that our generation neither remembers the struggle our ancestors fought for that Idea of India and its values nor has any interest left in them to grasp and acknowledge and cherish those ideas. We take everything for granted and are conditioned from birth to live an unexamined life!
Not only younger Generation , the no 1 unfaithful person is MR Modi and his followers
India in Pixels had made a follow up video of this film where he tracks what did these people do in their lives and where they are now
@@krisgray1957 No 2 is Gandhi family.
True
“I am an Indian and india means everything to me” ❤🇮🇳 🫡
T.N Subramanian has Enthralled S.N Sastry ( director )
He had been given maximum Airtime & is well articulated.The documentary ends with his words -"it's a huge experiment& i would like to be part of it".Eventually this gentleman also left india,Never to be part of the experiment.
That's right
Are you sure he left? Any idea where did he go and in what position?
Loved the man 💕
@@naamnei A writer went looking for all of these people in the video, and he located TN Subramanian in Troy, Michigan in the US at 68 years of age. I couldn't find any more of what happened exactly, but he passed away in 2015: months after the writer had located him. As far as I know, he could not get in contact with him or their family after that.
TN (state) probably discouraged TN to be part of that India experiment and headed to the USA.
Some others from this video were part of it though!! So not a sad ending afterall.
Anyone observed that book on the table "Differential Calculus". which we have been using since decades!! That's Amazing!!
“What do you want me to do? I can do enough by being an honest citizen, by doing my job best to my ability by working 8 hrs a day by not complaining”
Simple solution for complicated problems quoted in one good sentence, u need not need to be in power to make ur country best, jus be responsible to your role. Nailed it❤
"frustration is a fashion today." True lines
16:39
Its still is
This has to be the one of the best documentaries I have ever seen. The direction, editing, photography; everything is so perfectly done. I would have never expected such quality from an old documentary.
Film makers in those days were highly influenced by HOLLYWOOD in the crafts of Editing, Cinematography, Direction. Film makers today don't concentrate on the crafts rather they concentrate on the MASS Entertainment.
Wow! Not only were they fluent in their speech and delivery, but they also seemed to have minds that were even more advanced than those of modern India. Their outlooks and goals for the country and themselves are so inquiring and even upbeat. Their determination to face obstacles in life soars from the video and into our hearts. Well done, and Jai Hind.
8:06 what a voice,confident,clarity in his speak. great to see such pesonalities.
This documentary is a masterpiece. Never expected the youngsters of those days to be so open and confident in their thoughts and their voices. Especially the articulation of youth, it is wonderful. Perhaps it was the rub off effect of our great leaders of that time or may be our education system was doing a better job at that time. It was actually educating rather than only making them literate.
Well, literacy rate was around 31% at that time
Those all are IITians
Can't agree more.... What refined thoughts and language... Honest in their opinions......seems like today's education system has gone for a toss .
@@SpiderMan-bb8hv nowadays iitian can't be like them ...
Dis education doesn’t come from books but from life. A life where dey struggled more Dan our generation. A life which was all about playing with others and outside gaining experiences instead of playing on phones or watching tv.
The confidence with which they are talking and fluency in english, they are definitely much better than 20s of right now
Those youngsters had real freedom. They had there own opinions. They talked what they had experienced. Today's youngsters are influenced by garbage content in social media. We lost our ability of critical thinking.
As a youngster I agree 👍
8:00 she is so shy and lovely.
So confident, so open, beautiful thoughts and hopes and so much of belief in the country.
Strong Youth, this video must be nationally telecasted to show the present generation, how much of determination, perseverance, resilient and agility the youth represented.
I am just amazed and stunned by our older generation. A salute to them !
The quality of documentary making, ideas, public speaking, thinking that was found in those days is sadly missing from programmes these days. Kudos to films division to carefully preserve and make available these gems from the past.
3:27 is that guy on the right is our current pm narendra modi???
"A cog in the machine" comment seemed more sarcastic than an ambition.
He s a CEO or something now! I saw it in a new video, he has achieved so much, he is in the usa
It seemed that way because it was sarcastic.
@@bhuvaneshwarij1326 Achieved what? There are n of companies, m no of CEOs.
@@abhishekkhandelwal3582 I don't know if you're interested in this video anymore since it's been so long but If you are then I'd suggest you to watch "Where are they now" by India in Pixels. He talks about a lot of the people from this video and where they are now. The cog in the machine guy is actually not some simple CEO. He has a building/wing (can't remember exactly) of IIT Bombay named after himself and many more accomplishments that i can't currently list, He has truly achieved a lot. If you're interested in this topic then please do watch!
We always under estimate previous generations, actually it was more modern than it is today, this nation has become! including Film division
No brother, the people that you see in this video are very very few of that time. In the year 1967 who could afford such a good education.
These people do not represent majority of India
@@sudarshan3965 so what is your point??
@@rahulmohanty I want to say that, in the year 1967 there was so much poverty in India and if these people can afford good English education and some are even studying technical education then they must be from very rich families living in the main cities like Delhi, Mumbai or Kolkata. Hence this people do not represent the majority of Indians that were living in that time.
So we cannot come to a conclusion about India of that time on the basis of what these people think.
@@sudarshan3965 No sir, these people were essentially middle class, were best men or women academically in this country, who perched up really high in their lives professionally, all the men interviewed were actually from IIT Bombay
The young men and women who studied in colleges and universities then in 1960's were better read as books, journals, magazines, newspapers of all disciplines, subjects were available in most higher education institutes. Ofcourse it was small percentage of young population. Opportunity were very less. Today when information is available at your fingure tips due to internet and mobile most youngsters are blinded by social media limiting their divergence of thinking.
That village girl ...
"Us time me bhi itne confidance ke sath answer de rahi thi" .
That's amazing.🙏
I have learned only one things ....you're action matters more than you're speech.
It is funny how these people speak better than the people of today.. English is much better than most 20 years olds.. Even those who say they aren't educated speak so well, with respect and dignity even when they aren't happy about a lot of things..
Well education system at that time was good. Today it's shit so what can you expect from people today?
That's a fallacy. These select group of individuals the film crew selected for the documentary does not reflect the rest of the nation. You can still find, in fact a lot more, such people now with the increase of educational facilities and the internet.
Also btw the students here were from IIT Bombay so naturally they're exceptional, atleast for those times.
@bussy cat
Aren't you ashamed? More than half of the people were poor, simple-looking or didn't even speak English.
It's an eye opener for people like us who just have heard about being poor, the thought of people are more or less the same with 90's kids
I am a Pakistani. Enjoyed your documentary thoroughly. Brilliant work!
Came after an extraordinary 'Where are they now' UA-cam vid
The guy with specs in his hand .. what a brilliant and logical person
I am 38 and some months now, yes, born in 83’. I really loved those days of our nations culture, being religious & being sanskari, and everything else. I was huge fan of our nation’s movies, our dialogues, our songs were made with feelings in them, they had emotions in them, but now, it has all become natak without emotions & feelings, I hate todays BULLYWOOD, worthless to even watch trailers of them. Nowadays everything seems fake. I really miss those days, those people. I miss that era of humanity…😔😔
Although i am just 17 ,but i also somehow have same view like yours. When ever i watch my parent's old photos ,i always have feeling of going to that period of time ,basically pre India before 2005.
I always think how much nation used to love bollywood back then hearing stories from my mum.
And also want to see sachin bat in the 90s and how he held together the whole nation.
"....a question of not to what the country can do for you as much as you can do for the country, of course frustration is in fashion today but I think deep within every indian despite all this frustration we are underestimating him/her, he/she has a capacity to work."
still makes very much sense, despite all the things from the past, India has made progress in almost every sector and now we are not only competing with developed countries but also leading many works that were someday led by the big nations, though it was great to hear opinions and the lifestyle of youth of that time. Jai Hind
The youth of the 60s were definitely well dressed, well-spoken and well behaved
I was 18 in 1967.I’m feeling so proud to see & hear these young educated people, full of dreams, and that certain ‘drive’ we had those days. The drive to do something.As the bengali boy said, not to feel proud of Pataudi’s century, but to achieve something on your own. Exactly! We felt free in our minds,truly.The power was in our minds- not in material goodies, of which we felt deprived but soldiered on. That was a Nehruvian gift: although pretty ‘deprived’ materially,we felt truly free to think for ourselves/ express ourselves. Something I miss today.. I find the young sadly conformist today.(with some exceptions as always). And of course we spoke far better than English those days. There were convents even in smaller centres like Patna, Ranchi, Jamshedpur, etc, where we got an all-round education.We didn’t come from wealthy families- just middle class. Education was not expensive The ‘English’ spoken today makes me groan in pain.The English language has been ruined by ‘managementese’… management’lish’.I felt happy to watch this documentary..to come across people like me… forward looking, bold, happy & smiling. We liked to sing, dance, read,take part in cultural activities.
You spoke the British English in your times. Today American English is in fashion.
@@kdjoshi726 so ?? What's the point ??
It’s still so sad to hear when u say education is all about speaking English. 😢 even if I go by ur idea, language is self evolving. We don’t speak like u, u don’t speak like Shakespeare. So y Der is comparison of speaking better English.
All the problem they have talked about is still relevant today
so much young educated youth were there , having there own ideas and not influenced by someone especially the one in he first
why is no such films not made anymore!!
These are gems and the reflection of the extremes shown in single film.
I would say make more such contents in today's time as well
because shastryji is something else.
You'll find such similar youth interviews here on YT. Filmmakers nowadays are too busy making cringy item movies
I believe and surprised to see that youngsters were no different back in then than today. They were the same!
They were much better and clear minded than today's youngsters who are busy on Tiktok and Instagram.
@@fazayal83 more than half of the children back then never made it to youth
After seeing we realised how responsible and mature the Young's when it compares with us❤
I want to say how beautiful is this documentary and the fact that although India was robbed of its culture it's wealth and ofcourse it's independence.......the youth at that still was hopeful about India as it's best...
My grandmother was 20 during this year 1967 so I could see this generation quite clearly. My grandmother has written numerous poems in punjabi about the the 65' war, indo pak relations, about her father and the society. And when I look at myself and I ask myself that what have I achieved just read some books nothing more. I wish I was born back then that era was slow paced but it had that sincerity. Maybe I'll do something better as I'm 19 not much time has slipped. How foolish of me to say that last line.
You're motivated, humble & realized person. Keep that up :) you've achieved not many at my age have. In the future when you feel demotivated for any reason, read your own comment to push yourself. Good luck buddy :) And I really hope things change for better for next generations.
Wow! So inspiring. Try to put her poems out. It would be wonderful.
This video is a masterpiece. It lets you travel the past and feel what the people in it are expressing.
It's unimaginable that this was shot on 1967. Such a gem❤
Such an amazing documentry. As someone in their 20s I don't think I will be able to talk with so much clarity.
I discovered this gold on 21st March, 2022. I think, We have very good future ahead. I am 22 year old. I am appearing for UPSC this year. Good Luck My Fellow Indian. Let's make India Shine again.
What a great documentary. People were thinkers and real .
We have lost India to tik tokers today , adding fake filters to their Instagram life for 5 mins of instant gratification.
Hope we get our JC Bose and Vishweshwaraih back
I love how this content has been presented those days were pure gold I know why! the confidence in the voice and the people with smartest brains
Nowadays world is a pure rubbish i dont where the youth is going. I can guarantee if you compare today's 20 year old and them they're far way better off....
Thank you for letting us realise how backwards in terms of thought process have we gone
I don't understand, why this is not viral video. Every Indian should watch this.
Because every indian don't understand english
They are busy watching cringe roasting videos which contain nothing but abusive words
This is such a phenomenal documentary
Feels like i am breathing the air of that era
Wow. This is so insightful.
For some reason I can still resonate things which the 20 years old felt in 1967 , in 2023.
Progress is 100% there.
But these things they are still very alive.
How to say it but it is what it is.
This is one of the most beautiful films, I have seen from India. Pure Gold.
TN Subramaniam (Taruvai, Thirunelveli Neelakantan) spoke brilliantly. Wonder what led him to leave to the US for prospects than be a part of India experiment he talked about.
Is their any later video of his ?
@@highlightsportal8907 ua-cam.com/video/AICnH7QYmvM/v-deo.html
It was probably his love for mathematics.
I think that was a wise decision. Maybe his Maths Research Paper can help whole humanity ( including India ), someday.
He was just 20 year old?
Maybe his opinion changed when he grew up
I discovered him tonight on 3rd Jan 2020 simply blew my mind seeing this.
me on 30 jan 2022 believe me its just een 30 jan and time is 00:00
I turned 20 this month, this is very thought provoking to watch
I can see how our youth has similar foundational opinions and values even this day. The only difference, we are not as candid and forthright in our opinions. We try so hard to make it look unique. Even if someone aspires something very basic like joining the civil services, they will have an essay on how unique their choice is.
My father was 22 years old in 1967... I could see his optimistic thoughts about our nation of that generation, who are not so blessed with the resources we have today... who provided me with a good education with whatever he had, did the optimum best for me...
extraordinary documentary , but as a nation , India has made real progress until 1991.
Yes after 1991 more aggressively .but slight development started from 1980's .
Our real growth started in 1991 after economic liberalization, just take a look at our poverty rate, per capita income etc. you will see that things took a dramatic turn after that
7:22
Did she just say whistling at girls is OK?
Damn, we've evolved.
You didn't understood what she meant, and you are not able to.
I wonder when we reach 100 years of Independence how relevant the words of these people will still hold true. The opinions and ambitions of these young people from 50 years ago still hold true today in 2022, with almost similar problems being faced. Maybe with even more disharmony among our population than before. I wonder if there will ever come a time when we can genuinely unitedly say we have overcome the barriers of progression.
Where are they now? Should be the sequel for this fantastic documentary
I Am 20
I Will Serve My Country
I Will Feed As Many As I Can
I Will A Part Of India's Diplomacy
I Will Engineer / Design Solutions to impove Quality Of Life
I Will Be Consciously Alive
I Will Be Remembered After My Death
I Will Change The World
I Will Design The Magnificent
I Will to die Like The PM Atal Bihari Vajpaye
When I Will Die Whole World Cry
I Will Die With Satisfaction
India Is Changing At a Speed Which No One Can't Imagine and No Ons Can Stop It
And Yes I Am Integral Part Of India and We Are In A Big Experiment
I assure My Self When I Will Die Whole World Would a great place to Live
I really liked the guy at 5:32 he was so polite and handsome too. I really wanted to know where and how is he 🥺
They were right... India hasn't really changed much. We did developed in certain fields but some of the problems we face are still the same
Well to compare the youth at that time did not have much resources but was still much more mature and aware than today's who have abundance of resources. Also to note that how beautiful are they in their simplicity!!😍
20 year olds at that time were intelligent articulate.
These days youths spoiled by vocabulary and culture of bollywood.
16:08 such good picture quality😊 and such fluent English......
And yes I agree with them who are hopeful about the future of the country❤❤
12:54 summarise .Everything still applicable today...Great video .Thanks for sharing
I m here after a reddit post.This documentary is a gem in obscurity.
Which reddit channel bro?
I wish someone would post translations of the scattered non-English lines....
Youth of the yesteryears had so many doubts and hopes. Thought few sectors can still improve, seems India has risen from the ashes.
Thanks to Aarsh Limbadia of CineCuration channel for recommending this masterpiece.
10:10 he was spitting facts.
16:33 best!!
One of the best videos I have come across in a long time.
I can’t explain how deeply this touched me.
One can see the disparity. That's the one thing constant. It was there 70 years ago. It still exists now. Our government has given education to the population, but has not tackled the basic ignorance.
Such clarity of thought back in 1967!
2:03 such a astonishing voice and that boy in the starting is a free and a very intelligent thinker would have loved to have a chat with him share and exchange some thoughts about our country ❤️❤️
I should have known better by the Beatles from a hard day's night. Very popular at that time.
This is beautiful.
It's also important to note that most of the people shown would be in the top 1% of Indians. Educated, cultured. Knowing much about the world and respecting their own country as well.
I am so glad that the film maker also included so many girls and their opinions.
For that time, this documentary is highly advance.
I also noticed that people are much the same though.
Science, govt jobs, law also.
There should be part 2 where same bunch of individuals are interviewed to talk about how things went in retrospect. Ideally 1997 would have been a good time for that interview. What turns their lives took? And where they see us as a nation?
I too was thinking about the same.
There is a part two..
@@subina6024 yeah watched that video.
Can someone share video link for part 2?
@@Beedixit just search "India in pixels where are they now..
I'm a 17 year old and all my life I've had this idea that back in those days, india must've been really basic. Middle class families not being able to afford education, the lack of knowledge in english, all the girls with their heads bowed down working 24 hours in the kitchen. Thats the image i always had in mind of the 50s and 60s. Ofcourse, i was aware of the writers whose poems we read today in our english textbooks. I thought it was just one out of fifty people who had that imagination but today, I realized that maximum youth of that generation had been so thoughtful about everything.
My dadu has ofcourse told me a lot about his struggles back in bangladesh. So ive never really known what life was exactly like in India. This video was eye opening to me. It's surreal how their confidence, expression and thoughts were carried out with so much politeness and elegance.
Back then they were so ambitious and real now we have influencers.
Its a masterpiece❤..my father must be just a 8yr old kid then...the people really had a progressive approach towards life....we have progressed alot as we celebrate 77th year of our Independence.
Could see the differences among the youths thinking between 16:26 to 16:47. The former guy seemed very pessimistic, and the latter was pretty bold, intelluctual & visionary!!
Both povs r important to b honest. The former may sound pessimistic but actually it is a valid criticism , and ofc he did not mean to denigrate. He is just trying to convey the practical reality in a hyperbolic fashion to emphasize on his point.
@@toufique3390 Agreed! 👍🏻
@@toufique3390 Sadly the pessimist was correct. His words are true even today.
Youngsters back then were more clearly honest and blunt in their opinion.
This is gold! Generations will thank you!
Wonder how all these young men and women in the documentary are doing today! I am sure some have migrated overseas. How did the young man who promised to ride out the "experiment" of India do? This documentary is indeed a goldmine!
India in pixels did a follow video to it titled where are they now. Unfortunately the experiment guy left for US soon after his graduation and never came back.
Came from INDIA IN PIXELS channel. ❤️
Unbelievable documentary. I am stunned how today’s generation has changed so much with no regards for the country’s!
Amazing documentary....you really feel connected with the generation to their dreams , aspirations & requirements. Hope they all achieved whatever they wanted to.. thanks for sharing
13:12 THIS! "What do you want me to do for the country? I think I do enough by being an honest citizen"
7:01 this guy is like average Indian guy of this time (8-dec-21)
Indeed😂
Go back and hear when he says he doesn't want to go and show off his nationalism, so called Nationalists could call him anti national 😬
Amazed me to skies, I feel we are progressed a lot from 1967 but we are not progessed by thoughts ... They have very clear vision about their retirement.... I was unable to choose my career till I was 24.... I see as we grow we lack in sticking to our vision
Editing and the idea of this content "mind blowing"
Awesome! Happy Independence Day year २०२३, the Indian from New York 🙏
Where are these people today?
Can @film division again approach them and ask their current views?
It would be nice..!!
Most of them are dead.
Hope this will serve the purpose : www.1843magazine.com/content/places/samanth-subramanian/midnights-grown-ups?page=full
@@theneanderthal69 that's too young to gone below 70.
@@YashSharma-wu7kr As of 2020 the life expectancy in India is 69.7 years so the chances of them being alive is less likely...anyway some might be so maybe you r right...but "most of them are dead" still holds true
@@yeswanthbabud2622 thats a paid site...