Farebi Daku (1931)
- Directed by
- Abdur Rashid Kardar
- Genre
- action film, silent film
- Country
- British Raj
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
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How it feels
A silent action film from 1931 set in British India. It follows a mysterious bandit as the main character, with a popular stock cast including a hero and a villain.
silentquick-pacedlightheartedlo-ficampyold-fashioned
What happens
Farebi Daku also called Mysterious Bandit is a 1931 action silent film produced and directed by A. R. Kardar. Kardar set up his own production company "United Players Corporation" in 1928 and in quick succession produced and directed seven pictures, Husn Ka Daku (1929), Safdar Jung (1930), Sarfarosh (1930), Farebi Shahzada (1931), Khooni Katar (1931), Farebi Daku and The Wandering Dancer or Awara Raqasa. Awara Raqasa was the only film out of the seven produced by Kardar, which was directed by J. K. Nanda, who had received his direction and cinematography training in Germany. Farebi Daku was the final film produced under Kardar's United Players banner and again starred the popular cast from his last three films, Gulzar and Nazir in the main cast with M. Ismail as the villain. Nazir, who owned a clothes shop, sold it and joined Kardar, who cast him in Khooni Katar (1931) and Farebi Daku. The rest of the cast included Gul Hamid, M. Ismail, Hiralal, and Ghulam Qadir. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Husn Ka Daku (1929)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.