Jagirdar (1937)

Directed by

Mehboob Khan

Country

British Raj

Runtime

2h 46m

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A landlord faces romantic and family conflicts in 1930s India. The story follows the tangled relationships of the characters.

melodramaticromanticdateddramaticmusicalclassicsoapy

What happens

Jagirdar (Landlord) is a 1937 Hindi romantic melodrama film directed by Mehboob Khan, and starring Bibbo, Motilal, Surendra, Yakub, Pande, Sankatha Prasad, Pesi Patel and Maya Banerjee. The film was produced by Sagar Movietone and was Anil Biswas' first major venture as an independent music director. After the success of Manmohan, Anil Biswas replaced Ashok Ghosh as an acclaimed composer continuously producing a range of successful music. The story was written by Babubhai Mehta with dialogues credited to Zia Sarhadi. The lyricists were Zia Sarhadi and Pandit Indra Sharma. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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