Mohini (1948 film)

Mohini is a 1948 Indian Tamil-language film directed by Lanka Sathiyam and produced by M. Somasundharam.

It stars T. S. Balaiah, V. N. Janaki, Madhuri Devi, M. G. Ramachandran, Pulimoottai Ramaswami, M. N. Nambiar and R.

Sami decided to have a scene of flying horse inspired from Arabian Nights.

The scene was picturised using Optical Printing on the film's antagonist R. Balasubramaniam by creating a machine horse on the budget of ₹40,000 (equivalent to ₹4.5 million or US$52,000 in 2023).

[5] The Indian Express wrote, "The story is so full of action that it is difficult to narrate it succinctly".