Question: Are the directors of both films Howrah Bridge (Film) and Hussar Ballad from the same country?

He received Filmfare Awards for Best Film for" Aradhana"( 1969)," Anuraag"( 1973) and" Amanush", which was also made in Bengali, a language in which he made six films, including an Indo- Bangladesh joint production in 1984. Shakti Samanta( 13 January 1926 – 9 April 2009) was an Indian film director and producer, who founded Shakti Films in 1957, which is most known for films such as" Howrah BridgeChina TownKashmir Ki KaliAn Evening in ParisAradhanaKati Patang", and" Amar Prem". <SEP> Yuva( Youth), originally titled" Howrah Bridge", is a 2004 Indian political thriller film directed by Mani Ratnam and released in 2004. The film was simultaneously shot in Tamil as" Aaytha Ezhuthu" and in Hindi, and is based on the storyline of students entering politics. The film tells the stories of three young men from completely different strata of society and how one fateful incident on Kolkata's Howrah Bridge which changes their lives forever. The narrative of the story is partially in hyperlink format. <SEP> I Want Your Love is the title of both a 2010 short film and a 2012 feature- length film. Both films were directed and written by Travis Mathews. The drama films both revolve around the friends and ex-lovers of Jesse Metzger, a gay man in his mid-thirties who is forced to move back to his hometown from San Francisco due to financial reasons. The actors' own names, along with much of their real- life stories, were used for their characters in both films, which features graphic sexual scenes. The production of both films was aided by the gay pornographic studio NakedSword. This led to the full- length film being refused exemption from classification, which would have allowed it to screen at the Melbourne Queer Film Festival, a decision to which actor James Franco( who invited Mathews to collaborate on Franco's film" Interior. Leather Bar.") reacted negatively. <SEP> Eldar Alexandrovich Ryazanov( 18 November 1927 – 30 November 2015) was a Soviet and Russian film director and screenwriter whose popular comedies, satirizing the daily life of the Soviet Union and Russia, are celebrated throughout the former Soviet Union. <SEP> Its name is a reference to Howrah Bridge, which connects Howrah to Kolkata over the Hooghly River. It features the well known Hindi song" Mera Naam Chin Chin Chu" which was re-used in the film" Salaam Bombay!". This song was sung by Geeta Dutt and picturised on Helen. Director Samanta also said that the sensuous club number" Aaiye Meherbaan" picturized on Madhubala was also very memorable. The Music Director was O. P. Nayyar. The songs of this film were penned by the famous lyricist and Urdu poet Qamar Jalalabadi. Howrah Bridge is a 1958 film directed by Shakti Samanta. The film performed" above average" at the box office and one of the most successful film of that year. <SEP> In effect, it is one of the best loved musical comedies in Russia. With most of its dialogue delivered in verse, Ryazanov's script romanticizes the adventures of Nadezhda Durova during the Napoleonic wars. The swift paced, action packed, humor filled adventure is ingeniously mixed with light- hearted acting bravado and memorable operetta pieces. The Hussar Ballad is a 1962 Soviet musical film by Eldar Ryazanov, filmed on Mosfilm. The film's musical score and songs were written by Tikhon Khrennikov. The leading roles — those of the cavalry maiden Shurochka Azarova and the dashing hussar Poruchik Dmitry Rzhevsky — were played by Andrei Mironov's wife Larisa Golubkina and the People's Artist of the USSR Yuri Yakovlev, respectively. Comedian Igor Ilyinsky appeared as one- eyed Field- Marshal Prince Mikhail Kutuzov. The film is based on the play" A Long Time Ago" by Alexander Gladkov. The film proved so popular with Soviet audiences that poruchik Rzhevsky became quite a folklore character, featured in numerous jokes. See Russian jokes# Poruchik Rzhevsky for samples.