Ardeshir Irani

Ardeshir Marwan Irani (born 5 December 1886 in Pune, † 14 October 1969 in Bombay, Maharashtra ) was an Indian film producer and film director. He used his own sales structure and thus became one of the most influential early Indian film personalities.

Biography

After a few small jobs Irani went into Bombay in the phonograph and instrument trade of his father. For Universal, he was their representative in the West Indies and so came into contact with the film industry. With Abdulally Esoofally he took over in 1914, the movie theater and Alexandra Majestic Theatre in Bombay and they left with foreign as well as domestic films play on. Cooperation with Esoofally worked over several decades. 1920 Irani turned to film production in order to feed his cinema itself with enough new movies can. He founded the company Star film for this purpose with Bhogilal KM Dave. In 1922 she published the large-scale production Veer Abhimanyu, a mythological story from the Mahabharata. At the production of the resulting directed by Manilal Joshi film should have had some 5000 people. Lead roles Fatma Begum, the first Indian film director and a producer of - and her daughter Sultana.

In 1923, Irani Majestic Films and hired the young directors Naval Gandhi and Bhagwati Prasad Mishra. As one of several co- Regieen Irani Gandhi was born in 1924 the most famous movie studio, Paap No Fej. 1925 Majestic from the equally short-lived film company Royal Art Studios and 1926 the great Imperial film company film.

This developed into one of the largest film production companies of the early Indian film. In 1931 at the Imperial film under Irani's Alam Ara Director with the first Indian sound film. During the sound era, they produced movies in nine different languages. Among with Dukhtar -e- Lur (1933 ) the first sound film in Persian. Many actors started their career at Imperial film, including Prithviraj Kapoor and Mehboob Khan.

Irani also remained in the second half of the 1930s, an innovative film producer, he got hold of the necessary equipment for color film production and was published in 1937 with Kisan Kanya the first native Indian color film in theaters. In the following year, however, Imperial film was insolvent. After Ardeshir Irani produced only one film, Pujari ( 1946). However, he remained a member of the Indian Motion Picture Producers Association ( IMPPA ), its first president in 1933.