Devika Rani - Wikipedia
ওয়েবDevika Rani Chaudhuri (30 March 1908 – 9 March 1994), usually known as Devika Rani, was an Indian actress who was active in Hindi films during the 1930s and 1940s. She was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award , and was also awarded the Padma Shri .
Devika Rani: A tumultous life in films - The Hindu BusinessLine
ওয়েব28 ডিসেম্বর, 2020 · The biography of Devika Rani — rebel, superstar and abused wife — is the remarkable story of a woman who lived well before her time. * Devika was in her late teens when a chance meeting in ...
Devika Rani - IMDb
ওয়েবDevika Rani. Devika Rani Chaudhuri, usually known as Devika Rani (30 March 1908 - 9 March 1994), was an actress in Indian films who was active during the 1930s and 1940s. Widely acknowledged as the first lady of Indian cinema, Devika Rani had a successful film career that spanned 10 years. Born into a wealthy, anglicized Indian family, Devika ...
Devika Rani: The first lady of Indian cinema who challenged ...
ওয়েব30 মার্চ, 2022 · Devika Rani with Jawaharlal Nehru. (Photo: Express Archives) While on one side, Devika Rani became instrumental in giving Indian cinema several legends, her studio was internally falling by the day due to a rising clash between its showrunners. Devika decided to retire, with Hamari Baat (1943) being her last onscreen appearance.
The life and times of Devika Rani: Kishwar Desai on the fame ...
ওয়েব1 ফেব, 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 like Ashok Kumar, Leela Chitnis and Raj Kapoor to hone their skills, the studio also lent a sense of refinement to Indian cinema by bringing …
Why actor-producer Devika Rani was truly the First Lady of ...
ওয়েব25 আগস্ট, 2019 · When Devika Rani began working, some of her contemporaries were Durga Khote, Fearless Nadia, Kanan Devi and Sulochana (Ruby Myers). By the early 1940s, a new generation of young actors rose to prominence. “As an actor, Devika Rani was competing with female actors who were around 13-14 years old,” says Desai.
Devika Rani: The First Lady Of Indian Screen | # ...
ওয়েবDevika Rani is best-known for selling cinema to the upper-class Indians as an art-form, who previously considered it to be performed only by girls from the poorest parts of Bombay. As the daughter of India’s first surgeon-general and great-niece of Rabindranath Tagore, her decision to act and produce films on social issues made Indian cinema …
Meet the Devika Rani you didn’t know - Hindustan Times
ওয়েবDevika 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 ...
Devika Rani: First Diva of the Indian Screen – The Book ...
ওয়েবDesai has followed chronologically the tempestuous life of Devika Rani (1908-94), situating the decisive events against the turbulent thirties and forties of the last century, in a manner that even prosaic details about co-founding and later running the Bombay Talkies (BT) studio appear absorbing. Suffused with warmth and gentle humour, the ...
Devika Rani: Did Bollywood’s longest kiss really happen in 1933?
ওয়েবThe kiss - from the 1933 film Karma - featuring real-life couple Devika Rani and Himanshu Rai - has long been written about as the first-ever Bollywood film to have a lip lock and "Bollywood's ...
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