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Fatma Begum (1892–1983) was an Indian actress, director, and screenwriter. She is often considered the first female film director of Indian cinema . [1] Within four years, she went on to write, produce and direct many films.
Mar 12, 2017 · Fatma Begum, the first female director of Indian cinema, was born to a Muslim family in India in 1892. She was also invested in acting, screen-writing, and production. She was trained in Theatre and initially used to stage Urdu plays, following which she began working in films in 1922. She started her journey as a director with the silent film ...
Sep 18, 2014 · Fatma Begum was an actor, director, producer and screenwriter and first female director and studio owner in the Indian film industry. About Fatma Begum. Fatma Begum was born in 1892 into an Urdu-speaking Muslim family in India. She began her career on the Urdu stage and worked extensively in the Gujarati theatre before stepping into films.
Jun 8, 2021 · The 1900s were a tough time for Indian film. Indian cinema was just about starting to establish itself as an entertainment medium, and the silent films of the 1800s were already being forgotten. For a woman to break into the industry, especially not just as an actor, was a feat of its own, and Fatma Begum broke all these barriers, fearlessly.
Feb 9, 2017 · Even now, no concrete photograph remains of the woman who was India’s first female filmmaker 91 years ago. Born in 1892, Fatma Begum first gained fame on the Urdu stage and began her career with Ardeshir Irani’s Veer Abhimanyu in 1922. Within a few years she had set up Fatma Film Corporation (which became Victoria-Fatma Films) and directed ...
Fatma Begum. Actress: Social Pirates. Born in 1892 and living a long time, until 1983, Fatma Begum spent only 16 years of that 91 year span working in film, but made a big impact as the first woman to direct a movie in India, in 1926.She was also an actress and a writer and founder of a production company, and came from a background in the Urdu language theater, her...
Fatma Begum started Victoria Film Company in 1928 and directed some prominent films like Chandravali (1928) and Heer Ranjha (1928). In 1929, she made five feature films, Kanakatara, Milan Dinar, Naseeb Ni Devi, Shakuntala and Wonderful Prince. As the silent era made way for the talkies, she appeared in G.P. Pawar ’s Duniya Kya Hai (1937 ...
