Watan (film)

Homeland) is a 1938 Indian costume drama film directed by Mehboob Khan.

[2] The story set in Central Asia, based on the De-Cossackization policy, involving the Bolsheviks and Cossacks with the Cossacks fight for independence which was a symbolic reference to the independence from British rule in India at that time.

[5] Sitara Devi, who started her career as a child actress with Sagar Movietone working with Mehboob, got her first role as a leading lady with Watan.

[7] In a fictionalised setting somewhere in Central Asia, the tyrannical Russian Tsar is committing atrocities against the Cossacks.

Together with the help of princess Nigar who falls in love with Murad, they plan a coup and are successful in routing the Tsar and his men.