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PostPosted: Tue Jun 02, 2015 11:31 am 
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Sikandar is a 1941 Bollywood film directed by Sohrab Modi and starring Prithviraj Kapoor as Alexander the Great. The film is a historic epic set in 326 BC. 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).

Sikandar was the greatest success of Minerva Movietone, which specialized, in historic spectacles. Its lavish mounting, huge sets and production values equals the Best of Hollywood then particularly for its rousing and spectacular battle scenes and was rated by a British writer as... "…well up to the standard of that old masterpiece The Birth of a Nation." it equalled the greatest Hollywood movies of the genre.

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PostPosted: Wed Jul 29, 2015 7:57 am 
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I watched this on doordarshan years back when we were kids and remember thinking it was Shashi Kapoor! Yes, Prithviraj Kapoor in this movie seems so much like the Shashi Kapoor we know.

Prithviraj Kapoor played Puru in another alexander movie -- sikander-e-azam.


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