‘Devika Rani must have known about Himanshu …
WEBDevika Rani, one of the most beautiful actresses of her time. (Photo: Peter Dietze Archive) After Himanshu married Devika Rani in 1929, she too went to Germany with him and worked in the UFA ...
The life and times of Devika Rani: Kishwar Desai on …
WEBFeb 1, 2021 · Bombay Talkies, set up in 1934 by producer Himansu Rai and Devika Rani, was a pioneering film studio which revolutionised filmmaking in India. Apart from giving a space to actors and directors …
Karma (1933 film) - Wikipedia
WEBKarma. Karma is a 1933 bilingual film starring Devika Rani and Himanshu Rai.The film was directed by J.L. Freer Hunt and was a joint production between India, Germany and United Kingdom. Karma featured a four-minute kissing scene between the lead actors—Devika Rani and Rai—the longest in an Indian film. However, this has been incorrectly reported.
Devika Rani: Did Bollywood’s longest kiss really happen in 1933?
WEBJan 13, 2023 · After Rai suffered a nervous breakdown and died in 1940, Devika Rani ran the studio as a producer, giving breaks to legendary actors such as Madhubala and Dilip Kumar, and delivering many superhit ...
Devika Rani anniversary: Kishwar Desai on her biography of the …
WEBMar 9, 2021 · Devika Rani spent the early part of her widowhood battling for control of Bombay Talkies. In 1945, she left Bombay Talkies and cinema and married the Russian artist Svetoslav Roerich, eventually ...
Meet the Devika Rani you didn’t know - Hindustan Times
WEBDevika Rani, who co-produced Anjan with her husband Himanshu Rai, also starred in it opposite Ashok Kumar. Her life story is the subject of the play Devika Rani Goddess of the Silver Screen! which ...
She emerged from stormy billows - The Hindu
WEBFeb 18, 2021 · Left an indelible mark Devika Rani. In a film industry that casually doles out adjectives like never before, it is not easy to imagine that much before Aruna Raje, Farha Khan and Kangana Ranaut ...
‘Madam told me a lot of things, but I will never reveal them’
WEBJul 25, 2015 · R Devadas is the prime witness in the Tataguni theft case, and was a confidant of Devika Rani His old, weary eyes light up as he energetically speaks about “Doctor” and “Madam ...
Ashok Kumar - Wikipedia
WEBWith Devika Rani in Achhut Kanya (1936) His breakthrough came the same year with another Franz Osten's film Achhut Kannya which was a reformist piece featuring a Brahmin boy falling in love with a girl from the so-called untouchables in Indian society. Kumar in Naya Sansar (1941) After the success of Achhut Kanya, he delivered a hat-trick of silver …
Before Madhubala & Nargis, India had Devika Rani - The …
WEBSeptember 17, 2019. B efore Madhubala, Nargis, and Meena Kumari, there was Devika Rani, a star actor and film producer, who co-founded Bombay Talkies, India’s first self-contained film studio, alongside her first husband Himanshu Rai in 1934, and later became its sole boss after Rai’s untimely death. She donned these roles at a time when ...
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