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{{Infobox film
| name = Punjab Mail
| image = Punjab Mail 1939 film.jpg
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| director = [[Homi Wadia]]
| producer = Wadia Movietone
| writer = [[JBH Wadia]]
| screenplay = Homi Wadia
| story = JBH Wadia
| based_on =
| narrator =
| starring = [[Fearless Nadia]]<br>[[John Cawas]]<br>[[Boman Shroff]]<br>Sardar Mansoor
| music = Madhavlal Damodar Master
| cinematography =
| editing =
| studio = Wadia Movietone
| distributor = Wadia Movietone
| released = 1939
| runtime =
| country = India
| language = [[Hindi]]
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'''''Punjab Mail''''' (Hindi: पंजाब मेल) is [[List of Bollywood films of 1939|1939]] action adventure [[Hindi]] film directed by [[Homi Wadia]] for [[Wadia Movietone]].<ref name=Nihalani>{{cite book|last1=Gulazāra, Nihalani, Chatterjee|first1=Govind, Saibal|title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema - Nadia|date=2003|publisher=Popular Prakashan|location=India|isbn=9788179910665|pages=595|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&q=punjab+Mail+1939+film&pg=PT619|accessdate=12 September 2014}}</ref> The score was provided by Madhavlal Damodar Master,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gomolo.com/punjab-mail-movie/805|title=Punjab Mail 1939|publisher=Gomolo.com|accessdate=12 September 2014}}</ref> and stars [[Fearless Nadia]], [[John Cawas]], Sayani Atish, Sardar Mansoor, Boman Shroff and Sarita Devi.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.citwf.com/film282566.htm|title=Punjab Mail 1939|publisher=Alan Goble|accessdate=12 September 2014}}</ref> The film once again had Nadia playing the avenging female with mask and whip astride a horse dispensing justice and beating up the villains.

==Cast==
* Fearless Nadia
* John Cawas
* Sayani Atish
* Sarita Devi
* Boman Shroff
* Sardar Mansoor
* Master Chhotu
* Shahzadi
* Nazira
* Master Mohammed

==Production==
The Wadia brother films normally starred Boman Shroff in the [[Douglas Fairbanks Sr.]] style roles, but with ''Punjab Mail'' Boman Shroff was replaced by John Cawas as a leading man though Shroff continued to act in character roles for them.<ref name=Willemen>{{cite book|last1=Rajadhyaksha, Willemen|first1=Ashish, Paul|title=Encyclopedia of Indian Cinema|date=2014|publisher=Routledge|isbn=9781135943189|pages=156|edition=2, revised|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SLkABAAAQBAJ&q=punjab+Mail+1939+film&pg=PA156|accessdate=12 September 2014}}</ref> The action films Nadia starred in like ''[[Hunterwali]]'' (1935), ''[[Miss Frontier Mail]]'' (1936) and ''Punjab Mail'' (1939) had patriotic implications and showed her fighting against persecution and prejudice with all the films turning out to be box-office successes.<ref name=Chowdhry>{{cite book|last1=Chowdhry|first1=Prem|title=Colonial India and the Making of Empire Cinema: Image, Ideology and Identity|date=2000|publisher=Manchester University Press|location=UK|isbn=9780719057250|pages=98|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uEnbnfVCHZYC&q=punjab+Mail+1939+film&pg=PA98|accessdate=12 September 2014}}</ref> The train "metaphor" likening the female protagonist to a speedy train and its "thrilling settings" was continually used in the Wadia Brothers films with titles like ''[[Toofan Mail]]'' (1932), ''Miss Frontier Mail'' (1936), ''[[Toofan Express]]'' (1938) and ''Punjab Mail''` (1939).<ref name=Hurd>{{cite book|last1=Hurd II, Kerr|first1=John, Ian J.|title=India's Railway History: A Research Handbook Handbook of Oriental Studies|date=2012|publisher=BRILL|isbn=9789004230033|pages=132|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TPB5RTODBJAC&q=punjab+Mail+1939+film&pg=PA132|accessdate=12 September 2014}}</ref>

==Music==
The music was directed by Madhavlal Damodar Master, with lyrics written by Pandit Gyan Chandra. The singers were Sarita Devi, Sardar Mansoor and Master Mohammed.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://muvyz.com/moviepage/td613447/songs/#tabs |title=Punjab Mail 1939|publisher=Muvyz, Inc|accessdate=12 September 2014}}</ref>

===Song List===
{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"
! # !! Title !! Singer
|-
| 1
| "Chale Mori Naiya Nadi Kinare Prem Duare"
| Sarita Devi, Sardar Mansoor
|-
| 2
| "Is Khaadi Mein Desh Azaadi"
| Sarita Devi, Master Mohammed
|-
| 3
| "Joban Barse Jiya Mora Tarse"
| Sardar Mansoor
|-
| 4
| "Qaid Mein Aaye Nand Dulare"
| Sarita Devi, Sardar Mansoor
|}

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
*{{IMDb title|id=0332334|title=Punjab Mail }}

{{Homi Wadia}}

[[Category:1939 films]]
[[Category:1930s Hindi-language films]]
[[Category:Indian films]]
[[Category:Indian black-and-white films]]
[[Category:Films directed by Homi Wadia]]
[[Category:Indian action adventure films]]
[[Category:1930s action adventure films]]

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