सस्सी पुन्नू

Sassi Punnu dramatises one of South Asia's great tragic romances — the story of Sassi, a princess raised by a washerman, and her beloved Punnu, a Baloch prince, whose love is destroyed by the intervention of Punnu's brothers. One of the Punjabi-Sindhi folk romances (alongside Heer Ranjha, Sohni Mahiwal and Mirza Sahiban) that early Hindi cinema returned to repeatedly for their timeless poignancy.

Music director and individual songs not documented in available sources.

One of several 1932 films adapting classic Punjabi folk romances for the talkie medium. The Sharda Movietone production reflects Bombay cinema's use of regional folk narratives to create a pan-Indian audience.

A lost film of the early talkie corpus: no prints are known, and its place in the record rests on censor listings, period advertisements and filmographies. Entries like this are why the registry exists — so even the lost are counted.