Sohrab Merwanji Modi (2 November 1897 – 28 January 1984) was an Indian stage and film actor, director and producer. His films include Khoon Ka Khoon (1935)...
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Jhansi Ki Rani (1953 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
directed by Sohrab Modi for his Minerva Movietone production banner. It is credited as the first Technicolor film made in India and starred Modi's wife, Mehtab...
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Mehtab (actress) (redirect from Mehtab Modi)
with whom she had a son. They divorced later and she married Sohrab Modi in 1946. Modi cast her in the historical drama Jhansi Ki Rani (1953), which...
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Sikandar (1941 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
Sikandar or Sikander is a 1941 epic Bollywood film directed by Sohrab Modi and starring Prithviraj Kapoor as Alexander the Great. The battle sequences...
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(Hamlet) (1935) with Sohrab Modi under whose Minerva Movietone banner she acted for several years. Her high-point came with Modi's Pukar (1939) in which...
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Shrikrishan Modi, Indian politician Sohrab Modi, Indian actor Subhash Modi (born 1946), Kenyan cricket umpire Sulochana Modi, Indian politician Suresh Modi, Indian...
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Pukar (1939 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
Pukar (Urdu: پُکار) is a 1939 Urdu film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi at the production house, Minerva Movietone. The film is about Mughal emperor...
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Mehdi Hassan Ahsan. Khoon Ka Khoon (Hamlet) (1935), directed by Sohrab Modi, had Modi playing Hamlet with Naseem Banu as Ophelia and Naseem's mother Shamshadbai...
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Prithvi Vallabh (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
(Hindi: पृथ्वी वल्लभ) is a historical drama Bollywood film directed by Sohrab Modi. Made under the Minerva Movietone banner it was released in 1943. It...
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Jailor (1958 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
psychosocial melodrama film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi. The film was a remake of Modi's earlier Jailor (1938). The production company was Minerva...
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Saigal discovered him and took him to Mumbai (Bombay) to work for Sohrab Modi's Minerva Movietone film company, where he started his career working...
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Kundan (film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
social drama film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi for Minerva Movietone. The film stars Sohrab Modi, Sunil Dutt, Nimmi, Pran, Om Prakash, Kumkum...
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Samay Bada Balwan (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
is a 1969 Hindi social moral drama film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi. Modi had sold his studio a year earlier but tried to revive the Minerva...
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drama film directed by Bimal Roy. It stars Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Sohrab Modi, Nazir Hussain, Nigar Sultana among others. It is based on the play Yahudi...
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Sheesh Mahal (1950 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
of Mirrors) is a 1950 social Urdu/Hindi film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi for Minerva Movietone. The story writer was Hakim Ahmad Shuja, an Urdu...
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Nausherwan-E-Adil (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
Mohabbat, is a 1957 Indian costume action drama Hindi/Urdu film directed by Sohrab Modi. Produced by Minerva Movietone, it had music composed by C. Ramchandra...
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thriller film directed by Ravindra Dave. It stars Sohrab Modi, Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari. Sohrab Modi as Dayal Ashok Kumar as Chandan / Ashok Meena Kumari...
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stronghold during the Indian Mutiny Sikandar (1941 film), an Indian film by Sohrab Modi about Alexander the Great Sikandar (2009 film), an Indian Hindi-language...
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nomination. Yahudi, directed by Bimal Roy starred Kumari, Dilip Kumar, Sohrab Modi, Nazir Hussain and Nigar Sultana. It was based on the play Yahudi Ki...
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Jailor (1938 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
1938 Hindustani psychosocial melodrama film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi. Produced by Minerva Movietone, the story and lyrics were written by...
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Khoon Ka Khoon (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
1935 sound film adaptation of the Shakespearen play Hamlet. Directed by Sohrab Modi under his Stage Film Company banner, it is cited as one of the earliest...
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last screen appearance. He had earlier appeared in Pukar, directed by Sohrab Modi, Humayun and Roti, both directed by Mehboob Khan, and Stree, directed...
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Vyas. Feroz Khan as Suresh Nirupa Roy as Ranjana Kumkum as Shobha Rai Sohrab Modi as Judge Johnny Walker as Babulal Sheila Kashmiri as Hansa Reeta Roy...
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Georgian origin Sohrab Mehmed Pasha, an Ottoman official Sohrab Modi (1897–1984), Indian theatre and film actor, director and producer Sohrab Sepehri, was...
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career playing a character role, as Ambhi, Raja of Taxila's sister in Sohrab Modi's Sikandar (1941). Married to her fourth husband, Roop K. Shorey, by the...
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appreciated. His best-known performance is perhaps as Alexander the Great in Sohrab Modi's Sikandar (1941). He also joined the Grant Anderson Theater Company,...
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Khan Bahadur (film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
Khan Bahadur is a 1937 Hindi/Urdu social film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi. The music director was B. S. Hoogan. The film was the acting debut of...
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Madhubala (in her final, posthumous film appearance) and Sunil Dutt, with Sohrab Modi and Pran in pivotal roles. The film's music was composed by Shankar–Jaikishan...
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Awards, the name was changed to "Best Hindi Feature Film". Directed by Sohrab Modi, the 1954 film Mirza Ghalib was honoured with the first president's silver...
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came into prominence as the washer-woman in the role of Rami Dhoban in Sohrab Modi's Pukar (1939). As a woman seeking justice for the death of her husband...
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