HOLY CINEMA | Movies on Instagram: "“Sikandar” (1941), Bollywood’s epic directed by Sohrab Modi, as the earliest known film adaptation of Alexander the Great, predating Western versions like the 1956 Richard Burton film and drawing from ancient accounts of his Indian campaign. - Released amid India’s Quit India Movement during World War II, the film used Alexander’s invasion as an allegory for resisting foreign rule, boosting nationalist fervor and achieving massive box-office success despite Br