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Shaheed is a Nationalist film set in the context of the Quit India Movement and the ensuing wave of terrorist actions in the mid 1940s. Ram (Dilip Kumar) is the nationalist son of the colonial Rai Bahadur Dwarkadas (Chandramohan). He leaves home against his father's wishes to join a freedom fighters group…. His childhood sweetheart Sheela (Kamini Kaushal) repeatedly protects him from being caught. She is however forced to marry the evil policeman Vinod who in turn lets her brother Gopal free and promises to save Ram's life…In the end accused of terrorist activities, Ram is defended in court by his now repentant father but is found guilty and eventually hanged. Sheela dies as well and is reunited with Ram in death.

Shaheed went on to fare extremely well at the box office. The film endures till today as one of the best films made on the freedom struggle. In fact according to reputed Filmindia owner and critic Baburao Patel, for the first time with Shaheed did Filmistan make a sensible film! With Shaheed's success, Filmistan tried to combine making other films of Nationalistic Importance among their regular entertainers - films like Samadhi (1950) using the INA as a backdrop, or Anandmath (1952) and Jagriti (1954) even as they continued to make a Sargam (1950), Anarkali (1953), Nagin (1954) or Munimjee (1955)!


Star Cast:
Dilip Kumar, Kamini Kaushal, Chandra Mohan, Leela Chitnis, Nirupa Roy, Sapru, Manmohan,

Director: Ramesh Saigal

Music Director: Gulam Haidar

Producer: Filmistan

Genre: Patriotic

Color: Black and White