Sheesh Mahal, 1950 Director: Sohrab Modi Music: Vasant Desai Lyrics: Behzad Lakhnavi, Shams Lakhnavi, Azeez, Nazim Panipati Choreography: Surya Kumar, Badri Prasad, Sachin Shanker Playback: Shamshad Begum, Geeta Dutt, Pushpa Hans, Mohammed Rafi Cast: Sohrab Modi, Naseem Banu, Pran, Amarnath, Mubarak Nagar, Sultana, Leela Mishra, A Shah, Pushpa Hans, Nigar Sultana English subtitles provided The Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema says this about Sheesh Mahal: Modi’s big-budget commentary on decaying feudal aristocracy. Old patriarch Jaspal Singh (Modi) lives in the Sheesh Mahal (Palace of Mirrors) and believes only in aristocatic lineage, scorning capitalist enterprise. His contempt for money makes him an easy victim for a moneylender and he eventually has to sell his palace to a labourer turned millionaire, Durgaprasad (Mubarak) while himself turning into a worker to survive. The film contrasts Jaspal Singh’s feudal ambitions for his daughters, against what he sees as treacherous bourgeois values, but which are also the only values that come to his aid in the form of Durgaprasad. Wikipedia on Naseem Banu: Naseem Banu (4 July 1916 – 18 June 2002) was an Indian actress. She was referred to as Naseem and known as "Beauty Queen" and the "first female superstar" of Indian Cinema. Starting her acting career in the mid-1930s she continued to act till mid-1950s. Her first film was Khoon Ka Khoon (Hamlet) (1935) with Sohrab Modi under whose Minerva Movietone banner she acted for several years. Her high-point came with Modi's Pukar (1939) in which she played the role of Empress Nur Jahan. According to composer Naushad she got the sobriquet Pari-Chehra (fairy face) Naseem through the publicity advertisements of her films. She was the mother of actress Saira Banu and mother-in-law to the actor Dilip Kumar. She certainly has an interesting-looking face. The Pukar mentioned above is found in this channel here: https://youtu.be/hRSEddrh7kc It also features one of my own personal favorites, Sardar Akhtar.