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1938 Indian film From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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State Express is a 1938 Indian Hindi-language action film directed by Vijay Bhatt for his production company Prakash Pictures.[1][2] 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[3] The film starred Jayant, Sardar Akhtar, Umakant, Lallubhai Nayak, Shirin and Ismail.[4]

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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.[5]

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Cast

  • Jayant
  • Sardar Akhtar
  • Umakant
  • Shirin
  • Zaverbhai
  • M. Zahur
  • Lallubhai Nayak
  • Ismail
  • Jehangir
  • Chhotejaan
  • Vithaldass
  • Athavale

Review And Box office

State Express is cited by Rajadhyaksha and Willemen as a "successful film" doing well at the box-office. The main draw of the film was a "performing gorilla" and Sardar Akhtar's songs and performance. The film was one of the "best stunt films" from Bhatt, who normally made mythologicals.[1]

Soundtrack

The music was composed by Lallubhai Nayak, with the lyricist being Pandit Anuj. The singers were Sardar Akhtar, Jayant, Lallubhai Nayak and Rajkumari.[6]

Song list

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References

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