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Razia Sultan

Razia Sultan

★ 6,6 /10 (8 Votes)
1983 UR 151 min

Overview

The film is based on the life of Razia Sultan (1205–1240), the only female Sultan of Delhi (1236–1240) and her speculated love affair with the Abyssinian slave, Jamal-ud-Din Yakut.

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Release date

31/05/1983

Votes

8

Popularity

1.3

Genres

Status

Released

Language

UR

Runtime

151 min

Budget

$100,000

Revenue

$100,000

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thrill

2013-11-01

Well, as the title says, it is infact the most underrated movie ever produced by Indian cinema. Its all about the un-riped, non matured persona of Indian movie viewers of that time, which rejected a sheer classic just because it was not in common man`s language, but indeed had the magical sense of poetric Urdu and Hindi combination. The story is all about the first ever female Indian ruler of Delhi sultanate time, Razia sultan. Though the movie played a little bit with the history, which though in itself is doubtful and confused, it dealt with the concept very intelligently. Sultan Iltutmish w…

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quartz97

2026-09-11

A masterpiece of aesthetics and exquisite restraint and great expressionist acting and cinematography that uses music by great auteur Amrohi as highest power operatic form composed by Khayyam Hema and dharam in their most artistic and purest movie ever , Production is even grander than Hollywood cleopatra and it’s the best movie in Urdu ever and breaks taboos about inter racial sex , feminism and sexual empowerment! The language is poetic and so is the cinematic execution! Only for true art connoisseurs

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