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Overview
The film begins after Alexander the Great (Sikander in Hindi/Urdu) conquers Persia and the Kabul valley and approaches the Indian border at Jhelum. Sohrab Modi plays the Indian king Puru (Porus to the Greeks). The story goes that when Sikander defeated Porus and imprisoned him, he asked Porus how would he like to be treated. Porus replied the same way a defeated king is treated by the winner (meaning killed).
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 19, 1941
- Original language
- Hindi
- Spoken languages
- Hindi
- Countries
- India
- Production
- Minerva Movietone
- Cast
- Shakir,Meena Shorey,Sheela,Sadiq Ali,Zahur Raja,K.N. Singh,Lala Yaqoob,Jillo,Gajendra Singh,Prithviraj Kapoorand 2 more
- Director
- Sohrab Modi
- Writer
- Sudarshan
- Producer
- Sohrab Modi
- Cinematography
- Y.D. Sarpotdar
- Music
- Mir Saheb,Rafiq Ghaznavi
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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