Meetha Zahar (1938)

Original title

Meetha Zaher

Directed by

Sohrab Modi

Genre

drama film

Country

British Raj

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 1938 Indian film is a social drama about the dangers of alcoholism. It follows characters affected by drinking and argues for prohibition.

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What happens

Meetha Zahar (Sweet Poison) is a 1938 Indian Hindi/Urdu-language social drama film directed by Sohrab Modi for his Minerva Movietone productions. The screenplay was by Gajanan Jagirdar with dialogue by Munshi Abdul Baqi and director of photography by Y. S. Sarpotdar The music was by B. S. Hoogan with lyrics by Irshad Ahmed. The cast included Naseem Banu, Sohrab Modi, Jagirdar, Sadiq Ali, Eruch Tarapore, Sadat Ali, Sheela and Fakir Mohammed. Meetha Zahar was a social film dealing with the "evils of alcoholism". Modi was lauded for taking up the cause of prohibition in the nation's interest. The film was a part of the social trilogy Modi made around that time starting with Jailor (1938), which dealt with an illicit relationship concerning a married woman, Meetha Zahar (1938) dealing with prohibition, and Bharosa a social melodrama verging on the incestuous. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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