लैला मजनू

The deathless desert romance, Madan Theatres' second great musical triumph — Nissar and Kajjan together again, halls ringing with applause at every song. Released within months of Shirin Farhad to feed the public's sudden hunger for sung romance, it confirmed that the Nissar–Kajjan pairing, not any plot, was the marquee.

Ghazal-heavy, stage-idiom score sung live by the leads; Kajjan's laments for Laila were the era's most imitated vocal style.

Madan rushed it out the same year as Shirin Farhad to keep its talkie lead; the same star pair, orchestra and stagecraft moved film to film like a touring company.

The film that sealed Nissar–Kajjan as the talkie era's first superstar pair, and fixed the Hindi habit of telling love legends on a chessboard of songs.

One more of the talkie dawn's lost films — its songs survive in catalogue listings and memoirs, its prints in none.