Bombay Talkies

Bombay Talkies
IndustryEntertainment
Founded22 June 1934 (22 June 1934)
Founders
Defunct13 October 1953 (13 October 1953)
HeadquartersMalad, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Area served
British India
Products

Bombay Talkies was a movie studio founded in 1934. During its period of operation, Bombay Talkies produced 40 movies in Malad, a suburb of the Indian city of Bombay.

The studio was established in 1934 by Himanshu Rai and Devika Rani. After Rai's death in 1940, Rani took over the studio. Besides the founders, Ashok Kumar was the leading actor of the studio until 1943, when he founded another studio, Filmistan, with Shashadhar Mukherjee. After Rani's retirement, Kumar and Mukherjee took over Bombay Talkies. The company went out of business in 1953. A last film produced by the studio was released in June 1954.[1][2]

  1. ^ Tejaswini Ganti (2013). Bollywood: A Guidebook to Popular Hindi Cinema. Routledge. p. 17. ISBN 9780415583848.
  2. ^ Christian Rogowski (2010). The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema. Camden House. p. 169. ISBN 9781571134295.