''Hunterwali Ki Beti'' is a
Bollywood
Hindi cinema, popularly known as Bollywood and formerly as Bombay cinema, refers to the film industry based in Mumbai, engaged in production of motion pictures in Hindi language. The popular term Bollywood, is a portmanteau of "Bombay" (fo ...
film. It was released in
1943
Events
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January
* January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured.
* January 4 – ...
,
and is the
sequel
A sequel is a work of literature, film, theatre, television, music or video game that continues the story of, or expands upon, some earlier work. In the common context of a narrative work of fiction, a sequel portrays events set in the sam ...
to the 1935 film ''
Hunterwali
''Hunterwali'' () is a 1935 Indian Hindi-language action film by the Wadia Movietone company of Bombay (now Mumbai), featuring Fearless Nadia as the heroine. A story of a princess who fights injustice as the masked crusader Hunterwali (lit. ...
''.
Both films starred
Fearless Nadia
Mary Ann Evans (8 January 1908 – 9 January 1996), also known by her stage name Fearless Nadia, was an Australian-born Indian actress and stuntwoman, who worked in Indian cinema. She is most remembered as the masked, cloaked adventurer in ''Hu ...
as the heroine and were produced by the Wadia brothers
JBH and
Homi
Homi may refer to:
People
* Homi Adajania
* Homi Billimoria, Ceylonese architect
* Homi F. Daji
* Homi J. Bhabha (1909–1966), Indian nuclear physicist
* Homi J. H. Taleyarkhan
* Homi K. Bhabha
* Homi Kharas, British economist
* Homi Maneck ...
(Nadia's husband) of
Wadia Movietone
Wadia Movietone was a noted Indian film production company and studio based in Mumbai, established in 1933 by Wadia brothers J. B. H. Wadia and Homi Wadia. It was most known for stunt, fantasy and mythological films, including ''Hunterwali'' ...
.It was the first Indian movie to have sequel.
References
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1943 films
1940s Hindi-language films
Indian superhero films
Indian sequel films
1940s superhero films
Indian black-and-white films
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