Question: Which film has the director who was born earlier, The Puppetmaster (Film) or Do Boond Pani?

Richard Young( October 17, 1939 – December 15, 2010) was a cinematographer and film director who was born in Penfield, New York, United States. <SEP> Abhishek Saxena is an Indian Bollywood and Punjabi film director who directed the movie Phullu. The Phullu movie was released in theaters on 16 June 2017, in which film Sharib Hashmi is the lead role. Apart from these, he has also directed Patiala Dreamz, this is a Punjabi film. This film was screened in cinemas in 2014. <SEP> He won four National Film Awards in India, and internationally his films won the Palme d' Or( Grand Prize) at the Cannes Film Festival( out of three Palme d' Or nominations) and the Crystal Globe at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. As a director and screenwriter, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas is considered one of the pioneers of Indian parallel or neo-realistic cinema, and as a screenwriter he is also known for writing Raj Kapoor's best films. Khwaja Ahmad Abbas( 7 June 1914 – 1 June 1987), popularly known as K. A. Abbas, was an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and a journalist in the Urdu, Hindi and English languages. As a director, he made a number of important Hindi- Urdu films. " Dharti Ke Lal"( 1946), about the Bengal famine of 1943, was one of Indian cinema's first social- realist films, and opened up the overseas market for Indian films in the Soviet Union. " Pardesi"( 1957) was nominated for the Palme d' Or at the Cannes Film Festival. " Shehar Aur Sapna"( 1963) won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film, while" Saat Hindustani"( 1969) and" Do Boond Pani"( 1972) both won the National Film Awards for Best Feature Film on National Integration. As a screenwriter, he penned a number of neo-realistic films, such as" Dharti Ke Lal"( which he directed)," Neecha Nagar"( 1946) which won the Palme d' Or at the first Cannes Film Festival," Naya Sansar"( 1941)," Jagte Raho"( 1956), and" Saat Hindustani"( which he also directed). He is also known for writing the best of Raj Kapoor's films, including the Palme d' Or nominated" Awaara"( 1951), as well as" Shree 420"( 1955)," Mera Naam Joker"( 1970)," Bobby"( 1973) and" Henna"( 1991). His column ‘ Last Page ’ holds the distinction of being one of the longest- running columns in the history of Indian journalism. The column began in 1935, in" The Bombay Chronicle", and moved to the" Blitz" after the" Chronicle"'s closure, where it continued until his death in 1987. He was awarded the Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1969. <SEP> He is a leading figure in world cinema and in Taiwan's New Wave cinema movement, an auteur. Hou Hsiao-hsien (born 8 April 1947) is a Taiwanese film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival in 1989 for his film "A City of Sadness" (1989), and the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015 for "The Assassin" (2015). Other highly regarded works of his include "The Puppetmaster" (1993) and "Flowers of Shanghai" (1998). Hou was voted "Director of the Decade" for the 1990s in a poll of American and international critics put together by "The Village Voice" and "Film Comment". In a 1998 New York Film Festival worldwide critics' poll, Hou was named "one of the three directors most crucial to the future of cinema. A City of Sadness" ranked 117th in the British Film Institute's 2012 "Sight & Sound" critics' poll of the greatest films ever made. <SEP> Made under the" Naya Sansar" banner; the story, screenplay and dialogues were by K. A. Abbas, with additional dialogues by Inder Raj Anand. The music was composed by Jaidev. The cast included Simi Garewal, Jalal Agha and Madhu Chanda and was the debut film of actor Kiran Kumar. The film won the award for Best Feature film on National integration. Do Boond Pani( meaning: Two Drops of Water) is a 1971 Hindi social drama film produced and directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. Set against the backdrop of Rajasthan, the film focused on the scarcity of water, and the eventual building of a dam. Ganga Singh( Jalal Agha) goes to work on the dam, but loses his life, leaving behind his widow and a young son in the village. His sacrifice helps transform the desert land into a fertile area with the dam being called Ganga Sagar dam. <SEP> Based on the memoirs of Li Tian -lu, Taiwan ’s most celebrated puppeteer, this story covers the years from Li ’s birth in 1909 to the end of Japan ’s fifty- year occupation of Taiwan in 1945. Many consider" The Puppetmaster" a masterpiece of world cinema. In the British Film Institute's 2012" Sight& Sound" poll, seven critics and three directors named it one of the greatest films ever made. The Puppetmaster is a 1993 Taiwanese film directed by Hou Hsiao-hsien.