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Ardeshir Irani
Pune, Maharashtra, India
Shri. Khan Bahadur Ardeshir Irani was born in Pune, Maharashtra, and was a writer, director, producer, actor, film distributor, film showman, and cinematographer in the silent and…
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Shri. Khan Bahadur Ardeshir Irani was born in Pune, Maharashtra, and was a writer, director, producer, actor, film distributor, film showman, and cinematographer in the silent and sound eras of early Indian cinema. He launched Sagar Movietone and Sagar Productions. He was the director of India's first sound film Alam Ara. He was the producer of India's first color film Kisan Kanya. He was renowned for making films in Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, English, German, Indonesian, Persian, Urdu and Tamil. He was a successful entrepreneur who owned film theatres, a gramophone agency, a car agency, and Imperial Film Company, the parent company of Sagar. Ardeshir Irani is considered to be the father of Indian talkies.He was the Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association ( IMPPA 1937 to 1939) Became the first president of the Association of Indian Film Industry. In1937 Founder of the Indian Motion Picture Producers' Association .
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1937
Farmer’s Daughter
Movie Producer
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1935
Shirin and Farhad
Movie Producer
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1934
Ferdowsi
Movie Producer
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1934
My Man
Movie Writer
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1933
Lor Girl
Movie Director
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1932
Bhakta Prahlada
Movie Producer
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1931
Kalidas
Movie Producer
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1931
Draupadi
Movie Producer
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1931
Alam Ara
Movie Producer
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1928
Madhuri
Movie Cinematography
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1926
Bulbul-e-Paristan
Movie Director of Photography
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1924
The Debt of Sin
Movie Director
