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This is an amazing Indian comedu adventure film from the 1940s and terrific fun (you're not meant to take it seriously of course). The title role is played by an actress called "Fearless Nadia" who developed a great reputation in this sort of movie as the sort of girl you don't want to mess with. (Her real name was Mary Evans, she was Australian born who went to India and became a Bollywood star, learning Hindi in the process. She also did her own stunts.) In this movie Nadia is a thoroughly modern Hindu girl in a provincial Indian town that is in the grip of the local Mafia. The gangsters are opposed by a Robin Hood sort of figure who (of course) falls in love with Nadia. The gangsters try to frame the local good guys, but Nadia wades in sorts them out (wonderful to see her take on a gang of comical desperadoes), in between time conducting a demure romance with "Robin Hood". In the final reel, the local Maharajah (this is India remember) who has been visiting the place in disguise appears, has the bad guys thrown in jail, and "Robin Hood" pardoned, and they all live happily ever after.