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This is a list of Panjabi films of the 1940s. For a complete alphabetical list, see Category:Punjabi films .
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This is a list of Panjabi films of the 1940s. For a complete alphabetical list, see Category:Punjabi films .
| Title | Director | Cast | Notes | |||
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| 1940 | ||||||
| Mera Punjab | Krishna Dev Mehra | Haider Bandi | ||||
| 1948 | ||||||
| Chaman | Roop K. Shorey | Meena Shorey, Karan Dewan, Kuldip Kaur, Om Prakash, Majnu, Gulab [1] | Chaman was the first Panjabi film released in East Panjab following the Partition of Panjab. [2] | |||
| 1949 | ||||||
| Lachhi | Ravindra Dave | Wasti, Manorama, Majnu, Sophia, Baij Sharma, Om Prakash | ||||
| Mundri | Daud Chand | Ragni, Noor Mohammed Charlie, Rani Kiran, Sheikh Iqbal, Ilyas Kashmiri, Ghulam Mohammed | Pakistan's largest film company Evernew Pictures, owned by Agha G. A. Gul released its first Punjabi language film | |||
| Pheray | Nazir | Sawarn Lata, Nazir, M. Ismael, Nazar, Zeenat Begum, Maya Devi, Baba Alam Siaposh | ||||
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