Dhiraj

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{{Infobox film

| name = Dhiraj

| image = Dhiraj_(1942).jpg

| caption = Song synopsis booklet cover

| director = Chaturbhuj Doshi

| producer = Chandulal Shah

| writer =

| starring = Sitara Devi
Ishwarlal
Nur Jehan
Rajkumari Shukla

| music = Gyan Dutt

| cinematography =

| editing =

| distributor =

| released = {{Film date|1942}}

| runtime =

| country = India

| language = Hindi

| budget =

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Dhiraj (Patience) is a Bollywood social film. It was released in 1942.{{cite web|url=http://www.gomolo.com/dhiraj-movie/1004|title=Dhiraj 1942|publisher=Gomolo.com|accessdate=12 August 2012}}{{cite book|last1=Rajadhyaksha|first1=Ashish|last2=Willemen|first2=Paul|title=Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema|url=https://archive.org/details/encyclopaediaofi0000raja|url-access=registration|accessdate=12 August 2012|year=1999|publisher=British Film Institute}} The film was directed by Chaturbhuj Doshi for Ranjit Movietone. Gyan Dutt was the music director, with lyrics by Pandit Indra.{{cite web|title=Dhiraj 1942|url=http://myswar.com/album/dhiraj-1942|website=myswar.com|publisher=MySwar|accessdate=27 August 2015}} The cast included Sitara Devi, Ishwarlal, Kesari, Nurjehan.{{cite web|title=Dhiraj 1942|url=http://www.citwf.com/film86975.htm|website=citwf.com|publisher=Alan Goble|accessdate=27 August 2015}}

Dhiraj was doing successful business at the box-office when it was banned by the British government on the request of the Advisors to the governors. "They had grown intolerant of introduction of symbols like pictures of national leaders in films".{{cite book|author=Indian History Congress|title=The Proceedings of the Indian History Congress|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cOBtAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=27 August 2015|volume=36|year=1975|page=505}}{{cite book|author=Sundararaj Theodore Baskaran|title=The Message Bearers: The Nationalist Politics and the Entertainment Media in South India, 1880-1945|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tOEDAAAAMAAJ|accessdate=27 August 2015|year=1981|publisher=Cre-A|page=145}}