That gent was Mehraboon Irani, grandson of the father of Indian talkies, Ardeshir Irani (Alam Ara). Boman says, “This was my Cinema Paradiso moment.” He refers to Alexandra Cinema, in South Bombay, ...
India's first female actor, Durga Bai Kamat was the grandmother of famous Marathi actor Chandrakant Gokhale and ...
Fatma Begum, India's first female film director, broke gender barriers in the early Indian film industry, pioneering women's ...