[1] Directed by Sohrab Modi under his Stage Film Company banner, it is cited as one of the earliest talkie versions of this play.

[2] Credited as "the man who brought Shakespeare to the Indian screen", it was Modi's debut feature film as a director.

[3][4] The story and script were penned by Mehdi Hassan Ahsan from his Urdu adaptation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet".

[5] The other star cast included Shamshadbai, Ghulam Hussain, Obali Mai, Fazal Karim and Eruch Tarapore.

[11] Mehdi Ahsan, a known writer of the Parsi theatre had earlier adapted the play for the silent film Khoon-e-Nahak (1928), before staging it for Modi.