Pukar (1939)

Jahangir has promised that any subject can ring the great bell of justice and be heard. A loyal Rajput, Sangram Singh, faces his own painful test of duty when his son is accused of a killing, and Jahangir insists the law must apply equally. Then Empress Nur Jahan accidentally kills a washerman while hunting, and his widow comes to demand justice, forcing the emperor to judge his own wife. Sohrab Modi's Pukar, meaning the call, was a grand historical drama and one of the major successes of the late 1930s. Its ornate Urdu dialogue, written by a young Kamal Amrohi, and Modi's own booming performance became famous, and Naseem Banu, mother of Saira Banu, was celebrated for her beauty as Nur Jahan.