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	Bombay talkies and her forgotten heroes
		Bombay Talkies, the dream studio of actor-director Himanshu Rai, was training ground for some of the best talent in the Indian film industry.
		Bombay Talkies, India's first public limited film company, produced controversial motion pictures challenging aspects of Indian society, such as the caste social system.
		Bombay Talkies went into decline when differences arose between Devika Rani and her partners.
	sdsd.essortment.com /bombaytalkies_riwe.htm (560 words)

	The Bombay Studios in the 1930s
		She has claimed that Bombay Talkies concentrated on making three good movies a year rather than turning out a series of pot-boilers.(10) In contrast Ranjit Film Company, Chandulal Shah's unit, was producing up to twelve films a year.
		He turned to the Bombay commercial classes who had made their fortune in cotton brokerage and who had both economic and political ambition.(22) The relationship between Phalke and his backers was not smooth.
		Chandulal Shah entered the Bombay industry as a young man with the specific purpose of producing films for Miss Gohar a major star at the time.(40) Their combination was successful and Shah developed a studio (Ranjit Film Company) from this base which he translated into a position of some power within the Bombay film industry.
	wwwmcc.murdoch.edu.au /ReadingRoom/hfilm/BOMBAY.html (3835 words)

	Ashok Kumar (actor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reverently called Dadamoni, he started his career in Bombay (Mumbai), albeit accidentally, with the Bombay Talkies production Jeevan Naiya in 1936.
		He was also not afraid to take risks and was one of the first anti-heroes of Indian Cinema with his role in Kismet in 1943.
		He produced several films for Bombay Talkies during the final years of the company including the famous Mahal in 1949 in which he co-starred with Madhubala.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ashok_Kumar_(actor) (597 words)

	SARAI FilmCity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bombay crystallised as the key centre for the production of national fictions just at the moment that the new state came into existence, so its construction of the national narrative carries a particular force.
		Indeed, Bombay Talkies, the studio Manto worked for from 1946 to 1948, came under threat from Hindu extremists who demanded that the studio's Muslim employees be sacked.
		Significantly, the convention of the multi-community nation was dispersed in Bombay cinema, as the Hindu hero assumed a singular authority in expressing a social and political vision.
	www.sarai.net /mediacity/filmcity/essays/The_Political_Culture_of_Address_in_Popular_Cinema.htm (13912 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search Results - Bombay Talkies
		Bombay Talkies, film studio founded by Himansu Rai in Malad, Bombay (now Mumbai), in 1934.
		In 1929 Devika Rani and Himansu Rai were married in India and in 1933 they starred together in the first sound film in the Hindi language (Indian...
		Mumbai, city in western India, capital of Mahārāshtra State and premier port of India, located on the Arabian Sea.
	encarta.msn.com /Bombay_Talkies.html (147 words)

	Going back to the past (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bombay Talkies was begun with a working capital of Rs 25 lakh, an astoundingly huge sum for any production house.
		Built in the suburb of Malad, on a sprawling plot of land, the Bombay talkies was as modern as it was possible to be.
		Franz Osten directed all of Bombay Talkies films of the 1930s, Josef Wirsching was the cameraperson, and there were others, many of whom stayed back in India, like Carol Von Spreti the set designer, Len Hartley the British sound recordist, Zolle, the laboratory technician, plus of course Rai’s old playwright friend Niranjan Pal.
	web.mid-day.com /columns/mahmood_farooqui/2005/september/118818.htm (854 words)

	Himansu Rai
		Bombay Talkies like other big companies was a self-sufficient organized studio which had public issues, declared dividends, bonus and which had an independent financial standing in the stock exchange.
		Bombay Talkies maintained a school for children of staff members, which also became a school for child actors.
		Bombay Talkies settled down to a schedule of about three films a year.
	www.upperstall.com /people/rai.html (674 words)

	Review of Maximum City by Suketu Mehta from The Nation
		Bombay is the future of urban civilization on the planet.
		The difference is that the dancer in Bombay doesn't have to sleep with the customers, is forbidden to touch them in the bar, and wears more clothes on her body than the average Bombay secretary does on the broad public street."Monalisa provides an answer to that puzzle, and much besides.
		He sees in the renaming of his beloved city the assertion of the poorer people in Bombay, the Maharashtrian ghatis, those people who for him had so far generically been the "servants." One is tempted to say that the city was taken back by those who don't have any toilets.
	www.suketumehta.com /nation.html (1998 words)

	The Sunday Tribune - Spectrum - Lead Article
		Ashok Kumar was taken on the rolls of Bombay Talkies as laboratory assistant at a monthly salary of Rs 150.
		It was, however, the next Bombay Talkies film Achhut Kanya, made in the same year, that was to spell out for Ashok Kumar a very long and successful innings in the film industry.
		But, in the Bombay Talkies’ films that followed — Kangan (1939), Bandhan (1940) and Jhoola (1941)—Ashok Kumar was no longer the gawky lad that he might have looked to cinegoers in his first two films.
	www.tribuneindia.com /2002/20021013/spectrum/main5.htm (797 words)

	Relive the glory days of Bombay Talkies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bombay Talkies was set up as a public limited company with an authorised capital of Rs 2.5 million.
		Eventually, Bombay Talkies was split and S Mukherji left it to form a new company called Filmistan.
		For a host of filmmakers and their families, Bombay Talkies remains a name that evokes treasured memories of an era gone by.
	web.mid-day.com /metro/malad/2003/july/59892.htm (992 words)

	Bombay Talkie opens in Manhattan - Sepia Mutiny
		Bombay Talkie, a new chaat-plus-entrees place that sounds like an upscale version of Kati Roll Co., opened recently in Chelsea.
		untitled (Talkie stair sculpture) 2005 Sorry but I forgot to ask for specifics about the sculpture, since we were virtually closing the restaurant Wednesday night and there was no one around at the time who might have been helpful....
		Before it was the title of a Ameena Meer novel, "Bombay Talkies" was a movie theater in Bandra (suburban Bombay).
	www.sepiamutiny.com /sepia/archives/001035.html (908 words)

	Mahal
		Ashok Kumar, who used to be Bombay Talkies biggest star and who was part of the breakaway group to Filmistan, returned to his alma mater so to speak in the late 1940s to try and turn the company around.
		Incidentally it was a sort of coming home for Madhubala too as she had been a child star in one of Bombay Talkies biggest hits - Basant made in 1942 and here she was playing the heroine and that opposite the studio's top actor.
		Old Bombay Talkies cameraman Josef Wirsching shot the film and he does a splendid job of playing with light and shadow to maintain the mood of the story.
	www.upperstall.com /films/mahal.html (1570 words)

	rediff.com US edition: Mumbai masala
		From being wary about the poverty and pollution in India, she was totally "bowled over" by the Mogul gardens, Bombay Talkies and Indian curry houses.
		For example, I had dined with a charming Bombay director whom I was later told had murdered his first wife by pushing her off a balcony (the opening to Bombay Ice).
		Most Bombay films are love stories, for a start, in a country and culture where arranged marriage is still the norm.
	in.rediff.com /us/2000/jun/09us1.htm (1472 words)

	Flash Back - Pride Prejudices and Protest
		She earned immense popularity in the Bombay Talkies films and found a place for herself in the history of film music.
		The Bombay Talkies was a public Limited company and had four prominent parsi members on its Board.
		Himansu Rai reasoned that the Bombay Talkies maiden film ‘Jawani Ki Hawa’ was complete and had cost a lakh of rupees.
	www.rhythminfo.com /ShowHeader.asp?sectionid=9 (650 words)

	Screen The Business Of Entertainment-Films-Special
		Rai Bahadur Chunilal, who was on the Bombay Censor Board, was slammed for misusing his powers in getting an objectionabale production passed because he was closely associated with it (he was the general manager of Bombay Talkies that produced Kismet).
		Earlier his brother-in-law, Sashadhar at whose insistence Ashok Kumar had come to Mumbai and joined Bombay Talkies photography-cum-lab department, had had a similar run-in with his former co-star and when he had issued an ultimatum to Devika Rani —”Either Chakrakravarty stays or I do”— he was told coolly that Mr Chakravarty would stay.
		But for the moment she was not disturbed because Bombay Talkies was on a roll.
	www.screenindia.com /20020503/fspe.html (3346 words)

	rediff.com, Movies: Profiling Ashok Kumar
		But Bombay Talkies was prestigious and Ashok plunged into performance at a princely salary of Rs 75 per month.
		Thereafter, Ashok forsook Bombay Talkies (after Himanshu's death in 1940, the studio split into factions), and became a freelance artiste.
		The emergence of the Raj Kapoor-Dilip Kumar-Dev Anand trio and the realisation that he would not be able to keep Bombay Talkies afloat for long saw Ashok concentrate again on his acting career.
	www.rediff.com /entertai/2002/apr/29dinesh.htm (807 words)

	The Indian Express : Editorials & Analysis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Ashok Kumar got his first break in the movies when he, with his brother-in-law S. Mukerji, who later set up Filmistan, were taken in by Himanshu Rai, who had set up the famous Bombay Talkies.
		His first role was a minor one in the 1935 film made by Bombay Talkies, Jawani Ki Hawa.
		But Himanshu Rai, who was in charge of Bombay Talkies, simply wouldn’t let him and, almost forcibly, cast him as the male lead opposite Devika Rani in the film Jeevan Naiya.
	www.indianexpress.com /ie20011211/ed3.html (675 words)

	The "Masala" Film Recipe
		In Bombay films are produced in Marathi, the regional language, in Gujerati, Punjabi, as well as in Hindi, the most widespread of the Indian languages in the sub-continent.
		Bombay's film supremacy is assured by the application of a magical formula.
		There are countless anecdotes about Bombay films and songs that have become a cultural reference and therefore a means of social interaction for Indians of the diaspora.
	www.postcolonialweb.org /pakistan/literature/rushdie/takhar20.html (1120 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Nation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		But at the end of the lane stands a surprise: Bombay Talkies, the landmark studio that Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani had set up in 1934.
		For Bombay Talkies, the studio from where the golden phase of Hindi movies after the silent era took off, is no more.
		In the 50’s, Jalan bought Bombay Talkies lock, stock and barrel from Sakeseria, and he bought over Filmistan studio as well.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1031209/asp/nation/story_2659339.asp (740 words)

	The New York Times > Dining & Wine > Diner's Journal: Bombay Talkie
		"Unrequited love" is the predictably precious name of one of the obligatorily presented specialty drinks at Bombay Talkie, a new restaurant in Chelsea that pays as much attention to semantic and stylistic flourishes as it does to the spicing of its food, which could stand to be livelier.
		Bombay Talkie nonetheless has its charms, numerous and apparent from the moment you walk in the door.
		Bombay Talkie is in many ways a neighborhood joint in an especially pretty dress, designed by Thomas Juul-Hansen.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/02/04/dining/04jour.html?ex=1265346000&en=40b7854e7c059a1d&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt (634 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The two went to Bombay in 1927 and were lucky in getting roles in Imperial Film Company's Heer Ranjha, in which Ismail played the villain Kaido and Kardar did a side role.
		But the Imperial Film Company of Bombay, sensing the possibility of making good money from such a novel idea, made a quick film based on the same theme and ran it throughout the country before The Loves of a Mughal Prince could be released.
		Himansu Rai settled in Bombay and there, with the support of his highly educated and beautiful actress-wife Devika Rani, established Bombay Talkies.
	pakistani_films.tripod.com /the_silent_era_m.htm (1655 words)

	MILESTONES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Bombay film Industry's trade union IMPPA (Indian Motion Pictures Producers' Association) was formed in the same year.
		A breakaway faction of Bombay Talkies headed by S Mukherjee and Ashok Kumar forms Filmistan.
		While Bombay Talkies ceased it's productions and colour films like Aan were made (rel 1953), Ritwik Ghatak made an appearance with his first film Nagarik.
	www.ndtv.com /ent/moremilestones1.asp (633 words)

	As Yusuf Khan becomes Dilip Kumar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		It was to fix one such deal that the young Yusuf went to Nainital where Devika Rani, the boss lady of Bombay Talkies, stumbled upon him, and life was never the same again.
		So after returning to Bombay instead of Devika Rani he fixed up a meeting with a contractor and convinced him to start a canteen in Pune which Yusuf ran efficiently and from which he made a tidy profit and kept his abba happy.
		He was being signed by Bombay Talkies to play the lead opposite a new girl Mridula in their next film, Jwar Bhata.
	movies.indiainfo.com /tales/0611_dilip-kumar.html (730 words)

	A few words about Bombay Talkies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		According to Colin Pal, whose father Niranjan Pal was among the founding members of Bombay Talkies in 1934, actor-producer Himanshu Rai was keen on setting up the studio in Chembur.
		And so was born Bombay Talkies, unarguably a landmark in Indian cinema and, as Pal puts it, a training ground for many of the industry’s finest actors, directors and technicians.
		Pal, an 81-year-old resident of Evershine Nagar, explains that because Rai, Devika Rani, his father and others involved with the studio had spent a considerable time working in the film and theatre industry in Europe, they wanted to replicate those professional standards in their new studio.
	web.mid-day.com /metro/malad/2005/february/102797.htm (713 words)

	3to6 A Complete Movie Portal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		This Bombay Talkies suspense thriller of 1949 starred Ashok Kumar opposite Madhubala, as Mumtaz was then called.
		Although he had deserted Bombay Talkies n the early forties, still the director chose to cast him in the film.
		The richly textured visuals (shot by that old Bombay Talkies, Himanshu Rai introduced German Joseph Wirsching), the clever use of sound and the nuances performances of Ashok Kumar and Madhubala turned it into a high quality product.
	www.3to6.com /final_retro/lmadhbala1.htm (784 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In between, hold your breath, he was for a stint, general manager of the Bombay Talkies.
		The few left-overs from those times still remember the sartorial transformation of Sachin Chaudhuri during his Bombay Talkies days: the all-white dhoti-kurta and sloppy chappals substituted by prim three-piece suits, a display of demure ties and shoes imported from Oxford Street.
		Young cubs from the research staff of the Reserve Bank of India and the University School of Economics and Sociology at Churchgate were at Chaudhuri’s beck and call: it was a badge of honour to be a part of the journal’s fraternity.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1040101/asp/opinion/story_2735306.asp (1310 words)

	Mehmood - A tribute to Comedian Mehmood
		There were many other comedians in Bombay Talkies before he came to the screen, but they merely functioned as excuses to take the audience’s mind off the melodramatic plot for a few minutes of the film’s running time.
		While he was struggling in Bombay Talkies, he made friends with another up-and-coming comedian — the versatile Kishore Kumar.
		Bombay to Goa was his first movie as a leading hero.
	www.gatewayforindia.com /entertainment/mehmood.htm (1122 words)

	New York Daily News - Food - Talkie fluent in Indian street fare (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The menu may be inspired by road food (dishes are listed as "street bites" or "curbside plates") but the decor is a cheeky, full-tilt tribute to Bollywood.
		The gemstone cocktails also take their inspiration from Bollywood: "Ankur" (or "Seedling"), a movie about fresh beginnings, was the muse for a potent drink made with pomegranate juice, premium tequila and fresh pomegranate seeds that huddle at the bottom of your glass.
		It's a tip-off that the kitchen, overseen by Aix pastry chef Jehangir Mehta, is aiming for a PG rating when it comes to spice and perfume.
	www.nydailynews.com /city_life/food/story/281864p-241497c.html (836 words)

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