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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
More like this
Hunterwali (1935)
Flying Prince (1946)
Hind Ka Lal (1940)
Gentleman Daku (1937)
Leatherface (1939)
Lutaru Lalna (1938)
His Highness (1937)
Baghi Sipahi (1936)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.