Kulin Kanta is Indian cinema's 1925 crime thriller silent film directed by Homi Master.
[1] Based on a true incident the Bawla murder case, Kulin Kanta featured the story of the Maharaja Holkar of Indore and a dancing girl who wanted to escape from the harem.
The case involved Maharaja Tukoji Rao Holkar III of Indore and a Muslim courtesan called Mumtaz Begum.
[6] While driving around Malabar Hill one evening, Mumtaz and Bawla were attacked by Holkar's men in full view of spectators.
According to authors Gokulsing and Dissanayake the film was an "early form of the courtesan genre in Hindi cinema".