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Diler Daku (Defiant Bandit)
Basant Pictures (1957)
Director: Noshir Engineer
Music: Shafi M. Nagri
Choreography: Mandloi, D. Babulal
Special Effects: Babubhai Mistry Cast: Fearless Nadia, John Cawas, Samar Roy, Rajni, Vijaya Choudhary,
Heera Sawant, Sheikh, Kallu Ustad, Habib, Dalpat, Chanda, Sardar
Mansoor, Baby Mangala, H. Prakash, Ismail, Boy Prithvi, Boy Sikandar,
Abdulla, Bismilla, Korega, Jullian, Gaidwad, S. Advani, Yadav, Manaka,
Kusum. Plot: Sarwar Khan, the vizier, and Afzal Khan, the commander in chief
overthrow the kingdom and kill the king. During the battle, a loyal
servant rescues Princess Farida, whisking her away where she is raised
and trained as a valiant fighter for the cause of freedom.
Years later, Farida takes on a disguise and vows to avenge the death
of her father. Kamran, who happens to be the vizier’s son, takes her
side, but his stepmother, Shabnam, joins up with Afzal Khan and murder’s
her husband Sarwar Khan, making Afzal the new king.
Farida and Kamran rebel against Afzal Khan and attempt to stop his
forced marriage to Zarina, and then duo and their compatriots work to
win back Farida’s right to the throne.
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John
Cawas was a stuntman and actor in Hindi movies. Cawas made his debut in
the Hindi film Hunterwali, which became a career-defining movie for
Fearless Nadia and Wadia Movietone. Cawas himself was famous for his
performance of Tarzan in various movies.Wikipedia
John Cawas, Writer: Zimbo Ka Beta. John Cawas was born in October 1910 in Jabalpur, Central Provinces, British India. He was an actor and writer, known for
Heera Sawant. Actress. + Add or change photo on IMDbPro » Heera Sawant was born on December 15, 1935 in India. She is an actress, known for Return of Mr.
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Nadia: The first global heroine The history of Indian cinema is incomplete without highlighting the contribution of Fearless Nadia
Shoma A. Chatterji
Nadia
of the famous
Hunterwali series of films is back in the news. Select films
featuring Fearless Nadia as she was known, were screened at the
Kala Ghoda Festival in Mumbai. Her grandson, the late Riyad
Vinci Wadia made a documentary Fearless — The Hunterwalli
Story (1993).
The foundation for
the physically strong woman as ‘hero’ was laid by Wadia
Movietone’s Hunterwali in 1935. This film began the
genre of stunt films with a female masquerading as a ‘male’,
(but retaining her female identity. Her films created the trend
for the physically strong woman in India. The trend began and
ended Nadia. Indian cinema with the sole exception of Nadia
films, has never outgrown the tolerant and regressive heroine
who personifies the ideal clich`E9, the Bharatiya nari (Indian
woman).
Silent films with
‘social’ themes such as Educated Wife (1932), or historical
love-legends like Shireen Farhad (1931) designed their
leading ladies to play up to contemporary cultural expectations
of the audience. Hunterwali (1935) not only established
Homi Wadia as a director but it created an entirely new genre:
the stunt film, with stunts performed by the hero and the
heroine. It set a pattern for stunt films made for the next 15
years. Wadia Movietone made a fortune on the back of her
swashbuckling stunts.
Hunterwali,
played by a heavy-built actress with blue eyes and a blonde mop
of hair, with the screen name Nadia, led to a whole lot of films
from Wadia Movietone. Her films demonstrate how she could
mesmerise an entire generation of Indian males through her
swashbuckling acts. At the same time, her peers, stars of social
and mainstream films continued to sway their spectators with
their weepy, simpering acts.
After Hunterwali,
Nadia acted in Miss Frontier Mail and Pahari Kanya
(1936), Hurricane Hansa (1937), Lutaru Lalna (1938),
Punjab Mail (1939), Diamond Queen (1940),
Bambaiwali (1941), Jungle Princess, Muqabla and Mauj
(1942), Hunterwali ki Beti, Bind Hunterwali and Delhi
Express (1943), Flying Prince, Stunt Queen, Sher-e-Baghdad, Himmatwale,
(1945), Toofani Tirandaz, Mohabbat ki Jeet and Lady Robinhood
(1946), Eleven O’Clock, Jungle Goddess, Toofan Queen (1947),
Maya Mahal and Kismatwale (1948),
Dhoomketu(Comet) and Billi (1949) Circuswale (1950),
Jungle Ka Jawahar and Fighting Queen (1952), Shamsheerbaaz
and Chabuk Sawar (1953), Sher Dil (1954), Jungle
Goddess (1955), Baghdad Ka Jadu, and Jungle Queen (1956),
Diler Daku (1957), and Circus Queen and Carnival
Queen (1959.) She did one more film, Khiladi in 1968.
She passed away in January 1996. Her husband, Homi Wadia, other
than her mentor J.B.H. Wadia was largely responsible, for the
era known as the Fearless Nadia era.
This strongly
built woman of great courage stepped into the frame with the
singular aim of avenging some wrong done to someone through the
language she best knew — acrobatics, breathtaking stunts like
scaling high walls, hoisting strong men on her back, carrying a
man on her shoulders atop a moving train, fighting four lions in
a studio-simulated jungle, jumping from heights, swinging from
chandeliers, whipping men with her whiplash, leaping over cliffs
into waterfalls, all without a screen double.
In the Hunterwali
genre, the emphasis of the script lay on a single woman
striking out against the forces of evil in general for the good
of the many. The aim was to hit the boxoffice. Therefore, the
strategy was to manipulate the mass audience through physical
stunts that were visually spectacular and incredibly bold.
Nadia represents
the truly global Indian. She was born Mary Evans in Perth,
Australia in 1910 to a Greek mother and a Welsh father. They
migrated to Mumbai when she was a toddler but when her father, a
soldier in the British Army died in 1915, the family migrated to
Peshawar. She was plump and took dancing lessons in order to be
slim. This led to a brief stint in Zacko’s Russian circus
before going on stage as a member of Russian dancer Madame
Astrova’s ballet group. She mastered the art of cartwheels and
splits, which came in handy later during her film stunts. With
circus experience under her belt, Nadia unwittingly became a
global Indian. No history of Indian cinema can afford to forget
her unique contribution to cinema.
Nadia
of the famous
Hunterwali series of films is back in the news. Select films
featuring Fearless Nadia as she was known, were screened at the
Kala Ghoda Festival in Mumbai. Her grandson, the late Riyad
Vinci Wadia made a documentary Fearless — The Hunterwalli
Story (1993).
Hunterwali,
played by a heavy-built actress with blue eyes and a blonde mop
of hair, with the screen name Nadia, led to a whole lot of films
from Wadia Movietone. Her films demonstrate how she could
mesmerise an entire generation of Indian males through her
swashbuckling acts. At the same time, her peers, stars of social
and mainstream films continued to sway their spectators with
their weepy, simpering acts.
