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Ardeshir Irani
Ardeshir Irani in 1937 IMPPA President
Born
Khan Bahadur Ardeshir Irani
5 December 1886
Pune, Bombay Presidency, British India
Died
14 October 1969(1969-10-14) (aged 82)
Bombay, Maharashtra, India
Alma mater
Sir J. J. School of Art
Known for
Early Indian cinema
Khan Bahadur Ardeshir Irani (5 December 1886 – 14 October 1969) was a writer, director, producer, actor, film distributor, film showman and cinematographer in the silent and sound eras of early Indian cinema. He is considered one of the greatest personalities in recent Indian Cinema. He was the director of India's first sound film Alam Ara. He was the producer of India's first colour film Kisan Kanya. He was renowned for making films in Hindi, Telugu, English, German, Indonesian, Persian, Urdu and Tamil. He was a successful entrepreneur who owned film theatres, a gramophone agency, and a car agency.
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involved in the making of films for Indian cinema. It was launched by ArdeshirIrani with Chimanlal Desai and Dr. Ambalal Patel in 1929 in Bombay, Maharashtra...
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film was Alam Ara (1931) made by ArdeshirIrani. Ayodhyecha Raja (1932) was the first sound film of Marathi cinema. Irani also produced South India's first...
to be produced in the Persian language. In 1932, it was produced by ArdeshirIrani and Abdolhossein Sepanta under the Imperial Film Company in Bombay....
synchronized-sound short, the country's first. The following year, ArdeshirIrani directed the first Indian talking feature, the Hindi-Urdu Alam Ara,...
1936 social Hindi film directed by R. S. Chowdhary. It was produced by ArdeshirIrani under his Imperial Film Company banner. The film starred Rose, Kumar...
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regional film industries quickly switched to sound filming. In 1937, ArdeshirIrani, of Alam Ara fame, made the first colour film in Hindi, Kisan Kanya...
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was producing over 200 films per year. The first Indian sound film, ArdeshirIrani's Alam Ara (1931), was commercially successful. With a great demand for...
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Sound. Sound discs for five of the nine reels exist. 1931 Alam Ara ArdeshirIrani Master Vithal, Zubeida, Jilloo, Sushila, Prithviraj Kapoor The first...
Cinema. The film was produced by Imperial Movietone and directed by ArdeshirIrani. It starred Master Vithal, Zubeida, Prithviraj Kapoor and Wazir Mohammed...
career on the Urdu stage. She later shifted to films and debuted in ArdeshirIrani's silent film, Veer Abhimanyu (1922). It was common practice for men...
scripts for Gujarati theatre, a meeting with ArdeshirIrani was the turning point in his career. Irani, who later produced Alam Ara India's first talkie...
era and as an extra in the studios of the Imperial Film Company of ArdeshirIrani, before directing his first film Al Hilal a.k.a. Judgement of Allah...
cinema industry. In 1930, Vithal's popularity in Marathi films attracted ArdeshirIrani of Imperial Film Company to invite him to join his company to make India's...