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| producer = Orient Pictures Corporation | | producer = Orient Pictures Corporation | ||
| writer = [[Rabindranath Tagore]]<br>Jamshed Ratnagar (screenplay) | | writer = [[Rabindranath Tagore]]<br>Jamshed Ratnagar (screenplay) | ||
| based_on = Bisarjan | | based_on = Bisarjan (play) | ||
| narrator = | | narrator = | ||
| starring = [[Master Vithal]] | | starring = {{ubl|[[Master Vithal]]|Sulochana ([[Ruby Myers]])|[[Zubeida]]|Sultana}} | ||
| music = | | music = | ||
| cinematography = Naval Bhatt | | cinematography = Naval Bhatt | ||
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'''''Balidan''''' also called '''''Sacrifice''''', is a [[List of Bollywood films of 1927|1927]] [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[silent film]] directed by Naval Gandhi and based on a play by [[Rabindranath Tagore]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|last1=Crow|first1=Jonathan|title=Balidan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/249810/Balidan/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722181305/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/249810/Balidan/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 July 2015|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]]|date=2015|accessdate=30 April 2015}}</ref> It was produced by Orient Pictures Corporation.<ref name=Gomolo>{{cite web|title=Sacrifice|url=http://www.gomolo.com/sacrifice-movie/19877|website=gomolo.com|publisher=Gomolo|accessdate=30 April 2015}}</ref> Balidan is cited as one of the top ten lost films of Indian Cinema by P. K. Nair.<ref name=PKNair>{{cite web|last1=Nair|first1=P. K.|title=India's top ten lost films|url=http://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/indias-top-10-lost-films-compiled-by-p-k-nair/|website=filmheritagefoundation.co.in|publisher=Film Heritage Foundation|accessdate=30 April 2015}}</ref> Hailed as "an excellent and truly Indian film" by The Indian Cinematograph Committee, 1927–28,<ref name=FilmHeritage>{{cite web|title=Balidan (Sacrifice) 1927|url=http://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/balidan-sacrifice-1927-108-mins/|website=filmheritagefoundation.co.in|publisher=Film Heritage Foundation|accessdate=30 April 2015}}</ref> it was used by them as one of the films to "show how 'serious' Indian cinema could match Western standards".<ref name="RajadhyakshaWillemen2014">{{cite book|author1=Ashish Rajadhyaksha|author2=Paul Willemen|author3=Professor of Critical Studies Paul Willemen|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA250|year=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-94318-9|page=250}}</ref> | '''''Balidan''''' also called '''''Sacrifice''''', is a [[List of Bollywood films of 1927|1927]] [[Cinema of India|Indian]] [[silent film]] directed by Naval Gandhi and based on a play by [[Rabindranath Tagore]].<ref name=NYT>{{cite web|last1=Crow|first1=Jonathan|title=Balidan|url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/249810/Balidan/overview|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722181305/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/249810/Balidan/overview|url-status=dead|archive-date=22 July 2015|department=Movies & TV Dept.|work=[[The New York Times]]|publisher=[[Baseline (database)|Baseline]] & [[All Movie Guide]]|date=2015|accessdate=30 April 2015}}</ref> It was produced by Orient Pictures Corporation.<ref name=Gomolo>{{cite web|title=Sacrifice|url=http://www.gomolo.com/sacrifice-movie/19877|website=gomolo.com|publisher=Gomolo|accessdate=30 April 2015}}</ref> Balidan is cited as one of the top ten lost films of Indian Cinema by P. K. Nair.<ref name=PKNair>{{cite web|last1=Nair|first1=P. K.|title=India's top ten lost films|url=http://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/indias-top-10-lost-films-compiled-by-p-k-nair/|website=filmheritagefoundation.co.in|publisher=Film Heritage Foundation|accessdate=30 April 2015}}</ref> Hailed as "an excellent and truly Indian film" by The Indian Cinematograph Committee, 1927–28,<ref name=FilmHeritage>{{cite web|title=Balidan (Sacrifice) 1927|url=http://filmheritagefoundation.co.in/balidan-sacrifice-1927-108-mins/|website=filmheritagefoundation.co.in|publisher=Film Heritage Foundation|accessdate=30 April 2015}}</ref> it was used by them as one of the films to "show how 'serious' Indian cinema could match Western standards".<ref name="RajadhyakshaWillemen2014">{{cite book|author1=Ashish Rajadhyaksha|author2=Paul Willemen|author3=Professor of Critical Studies Paul Willemen|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&pg=PA250|year=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-94318-9|page=250}}</ref> | ||