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He launched Minerva Movietone in 1936. His early films at Minerva dealt with contemporary social issues such as alcoholism in Meetha Zaher (1938) and the right of Hindu women to divorce in Talaq (1938). Though the films did well, what attracted Modi was the historic genre.
Mar 19, 2024 · Minerva Movietone was the film studio created by director Sohrab Modi. He is most famous for his historical dramas with bombastic battle scenes such as Sikander, a film about Alexander The Great. He is also notable for creating India's first technicolor film; Jhansi ki Rani.
Minerva Movietone. Est: 1936 by Sohrab Modi and his brother Rustom. It emerged from Stage Films, set up in 1935 to film the stage repertoire of Rustom’s group, Arya Subodh Natak Mandali.
Jhansi Ki Rani (transl. Queen of Jhansi) is a 1953 Indian Hindi-language historical drama film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi for his Minerva Movietone production banner.
‘Minerva Movietone’ Famed Sohrab Modi Passed Away. Sohrab Modi was a revolutionary cinema thinker of early Bollywood, responsible for producing India’s first technicolour film, Jhansi Ki Rani. Sohrab Modi in his various roles; Source: Public Domain.
Nov 2, 2023 · Even in the 1930s, Sohrab Modi's films, made under his Minerva Movietone banner, had broached issues like alcoholism and the right of Hindu women to divorce, but did not stop there and moved on more taboo subjects like illicit love, incest, patriarchy, and the stultifying influence of tradition and social status in a new egalitarian age.
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Mar 24, 2019 · Other popular Parsi studios were Imperial Films owned by Ardeshir Irani, Minerva Movietone launched by Sohrab Modi and Wadia Movietone established by the brothers Homi Wadia and JBH Wadia. It helped that these pioneering actresses hailed from communities that were ‘westernised’.
