State Express (1938)
- Directed by
- Vijay Bhatt
- Genre
- action film
- Country
- British Raj
- Runtime
- 2h 51m
- Rating
- 10.0 of 10 from 1 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A young prince is caught up in danger when his scheming uncle tries to take control. A masked heroine performs stunts to help him, while trains crash and a gorilla adds to the chaos.
action-packedfast-pacedadventurousstunt-filledmasked-herodramaticexcitingold-fashioned
What happens
State Express is a 1938 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Vijay Bhatt for his production company Prakash Pictures. The film's music was composed by Lallubhai Nayak and the dialogues were written by Sampatlal Srivastava. Zakaria Khan, named Jayant by Vijay Bhatt, and who was to become a famous character artist, started his career as a leading man in several of Bhatt's earlier films from Bombay Mail (1935) to Bijli (1939), including State Express The film starred Jayant, Sardar Akhtar, Umakant, Lallubhai Nayak, Shirin and Ismail. State Express involved a masked heroine (Sardar Akhtar) who performed several stunts, a young prince (Jayant), and his scheming uncle. The film had the basic 'stunt' film features, masked characters, a gorilla, two dogs Tommy and Tiger (given poster credit) and crashing trains. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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