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In 1928, Devika Rani first met her future husband, Himanshu Rai, an Indian barrister-turned-film maker, who was in London preparing to shoot his forthcoming film A Throw of Dice. Rai was impressed with Devika's "exceptional skills" and invited her to join the production team of the film, although not as an actress.
In India, Himanshu Rai is known as the husband of the stunning Devika Rani, so the news of an unknown secret wife is something of a revelation.
Dec 28, 2020 · Desai points out that she was inspired to write the book after she stumbled upon some reels of the films of Devika Rani’s first husband — the producer-actor Himansu Rai — at the National...
The London-educated Bengali actress, dominated Indian cinema the 1930s, set up Bombay Talkies with her husband Himanshu Rai, and sang and danced in nine melodramatic romances. Devika Rani, who...
Mar 9, 2021 · She and her husband were making cinema for an international audience. Himansu Rai started the trend of the globalisation of Indian cinema in the 1920s, and that has somehow been forgotten. Why...
Mar 30, 2022 · Devika Rani with husband Svetoslav Roerich, along with film personalities like Johnny Walker, Vyjayanthimala, Janaki, Asha Parekh, Dev Anand, SB Chavan, Sayeeda Khan, Sivaji Ganesan, Raj Kumar and TR Narasimharaju in a click dated 1964.
But few know of Devika Rani, a star actor and film producer, who co-founded Bombay Talkies, India’s first self-contained film studio. Following her first husband Himanshu Rai’s untimely death, she headed the studio when the concept of working women wasn’t encouraged in mainstream society.
Dec 22, 2020 · It elicited interest in England for a prolonged kissing scene featuring the real-life couple of Devika Rani and actor-producer-director Himanshu Rai, one of the pioneers of Indian cinema whom she had married in 1929, but bombed in India.
Feb 1, 2021 · Devika Rani's contributions to the pioneering studio Bombay Talkies went beyond acting. She took full control of it following the death of Himansu Rai, her husband.
Jan 13, 2023 · In letters to her second husband - Russian artist Svetoslav Roerich - whom she met and married a few years after Rai's death, Devika Rani documented how he had started treating her badly,...
