Meetha Zahar
| Meetha Zahar | |
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| Directed by | Sohrab Modi |
| Written by | Gajanan Jagirdar (screenplay) |
| Produced by | Minerva Movietone |
| Starring | Naseem Banu Sohrab Modi Gajanan Jagirdar Eruch Tarpore |
| Cinematography | Y. D. Sarpotdar |
| Music by | B. S. Hoogan Irshad Ahmed (lyrics) |
Production company | Minerva Movietone |
| Distributed by | Evergreen Pictures, Bombay |
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Running time | 127 minutes |
| Country | India |
| Language | Hindi |
Meetha Zahar (Sweet Poison) is a 1938 Indian Hindi/Urdu-language social drama film directed by Sohrab Modi for his Minerva Movietone productions. The screenplay was by Gajanan Jagirdar with dialogue by Munshi Abdul Baqi and director of photography by Y. S. Sarpotdar The music was by B. S. Hoogan with lyrics by Irshad Ahmed. The cast included Naseem Banu, Sohrab Modi, Jagirdar, Sadiq Ali, Eruch Tarapore, Sadat Ali, Sheela and Fakir Mohammed.
Meetha Zahar was a social film dealing with the "evils of alcoholism". Modi was lauded for taking up the cause of prohibition in the nation's interest. The film was a part of the social trilogy Modi made around that time starting with Jailor (1938), which dealt with an illicit relationship concerning a married woman, Meetha Zahar (1938) dealing with prohibition, and Bharosa a social melodrama verging on the incestuous.