Pukar (1939 film)

Pukar Urdu , Hindi is a 1939 Urdu film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi at production house, Minerva movietone. The film is about Mughal emperor Jehangirs legendary justice and focuses how Jehangir offers himself to be killed when a washerwoman accuses the empress Noorjehan Naseem Banu of killing her husband in a hunt.

Set at the court of the harsh Mughhal Emperor Jehangir Chandra Mohan, the film tells two separate love stories the first of Mangal Singh Ali and Kanwar Sheela amid the violent feud raging between their families, and the second, the famous one of Jehangir and Nurjehan Banu. Mangal kills the brother and father of his lover. His father, the loyal Rajput chieftain Sangram Singh Modi, captures his son and Jehangir passes the death sentence. Jehangirs claim that the law knows no class distinction is put on the test when a washerwoman Akhtar accuses Queen Nurjehan of having inadvertently killed her husband during a hunt. Jehangir offers his own life but the washerwoman magnanimously forgives him.

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