| Leather Face | |
|---|---|
 Poster | |
| Directed by | Vijay Bhatt |
| Produced by | "Vijay-Shankar" Bhatt |
| Starring | P. Jairaj Mehtab Jal Writer Shirin |
| Music by | Lallubhai Nayak Shankar Rao Vyas |
Production company | Prakash Pictures |
Release date |
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Running time | 166 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Leather Face, also known as Farzand-e-Watan, is a 1939 Indian Hindi-language action film produced and directed by Vijay Bhatt for his production company Prakash Pictures.[1][2] Bhatt cast the young Mahjabeen, then six years, who went on to become the famous actress, Meena Kumari.[3] The story writers were Batuk Bhatt and Sampatlal Srivastava. The music direction was by Lallubhai Nayak and Shankar Rao Vyas with the lyrics written by Pandit Anuj. It starred P. Jairaj, Mehtab, Jal Writer, Shirin, M. Zahur, Lallubhai Nayak, Bholaram and Baby Mahjabeen (Meena Kumari).[4]
Leather Face, cited as one of Bhatt's successful "stunt" films along with State Express made a year earlier, had features similar to it. The use of a masked protagonist (Jairaj), the dog Tiger, and the stunts made the film popular with the public.[1]
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- ^ "Farzande Watan". Alan Goble. Retrieved 14 January 2015.