Sikandar
About Sikandar
In 326 B.C., after Sikandar (Prithviraj Kapoor) has taken Persia and the Kabul valley, he reaches the Indian bank of the Jhelum. He respects Aristotle and loves the Persian Rukhsana (Vanmala). King Puru (Sohrab Modi) asks the neighboring kings to stand together. Puru is defeated and taken prisoner. Asked how he wants to be treated, he answers that a king should treat another king as a king. Sikandar is impressed and sets him free.
Cast & crew
More about Sikandar
Sohrab Modi produced and directed it, and plays Puru. Pandit Sudarshan wrote the story and the dialogue. Esquire Ltd. handled distribution in Asia. The battle scenes, with thousands of extras, horses, elephants, and chariots, were filmed in Kolhapur. Databases date the release 19 February 1941. The language is Hindustani.
Themes
Background
It opened during the Second World War, while Gandhi's civil disobedience campaign and the call for swaraj were at a peak. Wikipedia says the picture fed nationalist feeling.
Audiences
Wikipedia says the film did strong business and was then dubbed into Persian.
Music
Wikipedia credits the music to Meer Sahib. MySwar also lists Mir Sahib and Rafiq Ghaznavi, with the Minerva Movietone orchestra and S. Fernandes and party.
Notes
- Meena Shorey plays Parthana, sister of Ambhi. MySwar says this was her debut and that Modi gave her the screen name Meena.
- K. N. Singh, Zahur Raja, Lala Yakub, Jilloo Bai, and Noor Jehan are in the Wikipedia cast.
- The Bombay censor board passed it. It was later kept out of some theaters in British Indian Army cantonments.
- It was revived in Delhi in 1961 during the Indian march into Goa, and it was dubbed into Persian.
- A song is "Zindagi Hai Pyar Se, Pyar Se Bitaye Ja.
Scenes
- Puru asks the other kings to face Sikandar together.
- As a prisoner he tells Sikandar to treat him as one king treats another, and he is freed.
Influenced
- Sikandar-e-Azam (1965)
Quotes
the same way a king is treated by another king
