Saat Hindustani

Saat Hindustani (Devanagari: सात हिन्दुस्तानी, Urdu: , translation: Seven Indians) is a 1969 film written and directed by Khwaja Ahmad Abbas. The film portrays the heroic story of seven Indians who attempt to liberate Goa from the Portuguese colonial rule. The cast included Utpal Dutt, Madhu, A. K. Hangal and Amitabh Bachchan who made his debut with this film. Bachchan played one of the Indians captured by the enemy nation as POW. He played the role of a Muslim poet.

Awards

• It won the 1970 Nargis Dutt Award for Best Feature Film on National Integration, and Lyric-Writer Of The Best Film Song On National Integration for Kaifi Azmi.
• Amitabh Bachchan won National Film Awards for Best Newcomer

Overview

Saat Hindustani portrays the heroic story of seven Indians who attempt to liberate Goa from the Portuguese colonial rule.

Synopsis

A Muslim poet Anwar Ali (Amitabh Bachchan), and five other men all belonging from different religions, and from different parts of India join their seventh comrade, Maria (Shehnaz), a native of Portuguese-occupied Goa, to raise nationalist sentiments in that state by hoisting Indian flag on Portuguese forts and buildings.

In the process they find unity and abandon their religious and regional differences.

The film begins with a dying Maria who summons her former comrades and...
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