Lung, who died in 2014, believed that society’s ills, rather than an individual’s failings, turned citizens to crime, and he was not afraid to express this explicitly in his work.
Lung, who died in 2014, believed that society’s ills, rather than an individual’s failings, turned citizens to crime, and he was not afraid to express this explicitly in his work.
But Lung also realised that audiences did not like to sit and watch lectures, so his best-known films are not standard social dramas – the messages are often framed in a genre format featuring criminals, prisoners and call girls.

Below, we look at two of Lung’s best-known films.
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