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    Devika Rani Chaudhuri (30 March 1908 – 9 March 1994), usually known as Devika Rani, was an Indian actress who was active in Hindi films during the 1930s and 1940s. She was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, and was also awarded the Padma Shri.

  3. Devika Rani is best-known for selling cinema to the upper-class Indians as an art-form, who previously considered it to be performed only by girls from the poorest parts of Bombay. Throughout the 1930s, Devika Rani starred in many women-centric films which often led to the displeasure among the male co-stars who felt ‘overshadowed’ by her.

  4. Feb 1, 2021 · One of the reasons for Bombay Talkies’ immortalisation in the history of Indian cinema was Devika Rani herself — the face of the studio and the glamorous heroine of the films produced in its initial years.

  5. Devika Rani Chaudhuri (30 March 1908 – 9 March 1994), usually known as Devika Rani, was an Indian actress who was active in Hindi films during the 1930s and 1940s. She was the first recipient of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award , and was also awarded the Padma Shri .

  6. May 29, 2023 · Pune: After completing her education in the UK, Devika Rani, the grand niece of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, brought a revolution in Indian cinema by becoming a pioneer actress at a time ...

    • Anjali Jhangiani
  7. 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.

  8. Sep 17, 2019 · B efore Madhubala, Nargis, and Meena Kumari, there was Devika Rani, a star actor and film producer, who co-founded Bombay Talkies, India’s first self-contained film studio, alongside her first husband Himanshu Rai in 1934, and later became its sole boss after Rai’s untimely death.