“(This Raj Kapoor production) was co-directed by two major figures in the progressive theater movement of Calcutta, Sombhu Mitra and Amit Maitra. The striking first reel looks very much like a film noir. Indeed, it is a dark drama (with some comic scenes) in which Kapoor plays a ragged country yokel, who, wandering alone at night in Calcutta, enters a courtyard for a drink of water and is mistaken for a thief. The entire film takes place in the course of one long night during which a hounded innocent man takes refuge in a middle-class apartment building and the vices of the seemingly respectable people who inhabit it are revealed. We go beyond Chaplin--at one point Raj Kapoor is clearly identified as a Christ figure. Jagte Raho did not do well on its initial Indian release. It then became the first Indian film to be awarded a Grand Prix at an international film festival (Karlovy Vary in Czechoslovakia, 1958), and when it was reissued, played to packed houses. It turns up often on Indian critics' lists of the ten best Indian films of all time.” Elliott Stein