--- title: 'Nil Battey Sannata (2016)' type: 'film' director: 'Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari' released: '2016-04-22' runtime_minutes: 100 genres: - 'Drama' countries: - 'India' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/nil-battey-sannata-2016' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5005684/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # Nil Battey Sannata (2016) 2016 · 100 min · Drama · India ## Synopsis Nil Battey Sannata, released internationally as The New Classmate, is a 2015 Indian Hindi-language comedy drama film directed by Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari in her feature debut. Produced by Aanand L. Rai, Ajay Rai, and Alan McAlex under the banners of Colour Yellow Productions and JAR Pictures, the film was co-written by Iyer, Neeraj Singh, Pranjal Choudhary, and Nitesh Tiwari. Swara Bhaskar starred as Chanda Sahay, a high-school drop-out household maid and single mother of a sullen young girl named Apeksha, played by Riya Shukla. The film's theme is a person's right to dream and change their lives, irrespective of social status. ## Credits - **Producer:** [Aanand L. Rai](https://cinepixo.com/people/aanand-l-rai) - **Director of Photography:** [Gavemic U Ary](https://cinepixo.com/people/gavemic-u-ary) - **Director:** [Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari](https://cinepixo.com/people/ashwiny-iyer-tiwari) - **Screenplay:** [Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari](https://cinepixo.com/people/ashwiny-iyer-tiwari), [Nitesh Tiwari](https://cinepixo.com/people/nitesh-tiwari), [Neeraj Singh](https://cinepixo.com/people/neeraj-singh) ## Cast - [Pankaj Tripathi](https://cinepixo.com/people/pankaj-tripathi) - [Riya Shukla](https://cinepixo.com/people/riya-shukla) - [Sanjay Suri](https://cinepixo.com/people/sanjay-suri) - [Ratna Pathak](https://cinepixo.com/people/ratna-pathak) - [Swara Bhaskar](https://cinepixo.com/people/swara-bhaskar) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/nil-battey-sannata-2016 Film facts: Wikidata (Q22905735); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.