Sohrab Modi
Sohrab Merwanji modes (Hindi: सोहराब मोदी Sohrab modes; born November 2, 1897 in Bombay, Bombay, British India, † January 28, 1984 Bombay, Maharashtra ) was an Indian actor, film director and producer of Hindi / Urdu film.
Life
Sohrab modes was born the son of a Parsi civil servants in Bombay and grew up in Rampur and Bombay. Together with his brother Keki modes, he worked as Wanderfilmvorführer in Gwalior in 1914. In the 1920s he worked as a stage actor in the theater group Natak Mandali Arya Subodh his brother Rustom modes. His most important stage role was the lead role of Jehangir in Khoon Ka Khoon, a Hamlet adaptation, which was one of the most successful Urdu dramas of the 1920s. With the beginning of the sound film, the attractiveness of the theater was sinking and modes turned the film. In 1935 he founded together with his brother Rustom a film company called Stage film and turned film versions of Shakespeare's stage successes Khoon Ka Khoon (1935 ) and Saeed -e Havas (1936 ) by Aga Hashr Kashmiri adaptation of King John.
Then came Modis film company Minerva Movietone. With the historical films Pukar (1939 ), Sikandar (1941 ) and Prithvi Vallabh (1943 ) brought him his breakthrough as producer, director and star. Pukar plays at the court of the Great Mogul Jahangir and many scenes were filmed on location. In particular, but Sikander is one of the great classics of Indian history film. It is about the battle of Alexander the Great ( Sikander = ) ( Prithviraj Kapoor ) against King Poros ( Sohrab modes ) in the year 326 BC and is notable for its spectacular battle scenes and drama for its time.
In addition to costume dramas, in which Kamal Amrohi also regularly participated as an author, published modes successful, but misogynistic marriage dramas like Jailor (1938 and 1958 ), talaaq (1938 ) and Bharosa ( 1940). 1953 turned Jhansi Ki Rani modes with India's first film in Technicolor, which plays at the time of the uprising against the British in 1857. Mirza Ghalib (1954 ), a film about the life of Urdu poet Mirza Ghalib during the reign of the last Mughal Bahadur Shah II, won him a National Film Award for Best Film of the year. After his role in Bimal Roy's Yahudi (1958 ), he joined almost exclusively as an actor in films by other directors. His film company made around 1960 operating.
Sohrab modes was member of the jury at the Berlinale 1960. 1980 him the Dadasaheb Phalke Award was awarded for its outstanding contribution to Indian cinema. Modes died of cancer.