Magic of Movies - 30's top movies, directors, actors, actresses

Actors

Ashok Kumar,,Chandramohan,E billimoria,K L Saigal,Master Vinayak,Kishor Sahu,Motilal

Pahari Sanyal,Prithvi Raj Kapoor,Trilok Kapoor

Actresses

Devika rani,Durga khote,Gohar,Jahanara Kajjan,Kanan Devi,Sabita devi,sardar akhtar,Shanta apte,

Sulochana,Zubaida

Movies
1930 Arunodya
Arunodaya a.k.a. The Rising Sun (Dawn) Bhagwati Mishra Master Vithal, Nirasha, Yakub, Boman Irani, Wamanrao, Syed Husen, Manekbai
1931 Alam Ara

Alam Ara Ardeshir Irani Master Vithal, Zubeida, Prithviraj Kapoor, Sushila, Jagdish Sethi, W. M. Khan, Elizer, Jilloobai, T. L. V. Prasad
1932 Pati Bhakti
Pati Bhakti  Patience Cooper, Master Mohan, Jahanara Kajjan, Rosy, Surajram, Narbada Shankar
1933 Karma
Karma J. L. Freer Hunt Devika Rani, Himanshu Rai, Ebraham Sofaer, Sudha Rani, Ghanshyam, Dewan Sharar
1934 Amrit Manthan

Amrit Manthan V. Shantaram Chandra Mohan, Nalini Tarkhud, Shanta Apte, Keshavrao Date, Sureshbabu Mane, Budhasaheb, Varde, Kulkarni
1935 Devdas

Devdas P.C. Barua K. L. Saigal, Jumuna, Pahari Sanyal, Rajkumari, K. C. Dey, Nemo, Sitara
1936 Achut Kanya

Achhut Kanya Franz Osten Ashok Kumar, Devika Rani, Mumtaz Ali, Pramila, Sunita Devi, Kusum Kumari, Anwari Bai, Kamta Prasad, Kishori Lal, P. F. Pithavala, Manorama Sr., Chandra Prabha
1937 Vidyapati

Vidyapati was a biopic directed by Nitin Bose for New Theatres. It starred Pahari Sanyal as the Maithili poet and Vaishnava saint Vidyapati. The bold songs of the film ensured crowds at the theatres making it a big success of 1937.
1938 Street Singer

Street Singer is considered as an “all time classic” from New Theatres Calcutta. The film starred K. L. Saigal, Kanan Devi, Jagdish Sethi and Bikram Kapoor with music by R. C. Boral. Directed by Prafulla Ghosh, the film established Kanan Devi’s popularity and her ‘melody queen’ status. It is also ranked as one of Saigal’s greatest hits, where his rendition of Wajid Ali Shah’s bhairavi thumri "Babul Mora Naihar Chhooto Jaye" is considered a classic.
1939 Pukar

Pukar was a historical drama directed by Sohrab Modi for his own banner Minerva Movietone based on Jehangir’s fair sense of justice. It was the most successful film of 1939. The film was one of the first to use spectacular sets and it was also Kamal Amrohi’s first film as a scriptwriter. The film starred Chandra Mohan as Jehangir, with Naseem Banu and Sohrab Modi.

Directors

Chandulal Shah
Chandulal Jesangbhai Shah was a famous director, producer and screenwriter of Indian films, who founded Ranjit Studios in 1929.

Franz osten
Franz Osten was a German filmmaker who along with Himansu Rai was among the first retainers of Bombay Talkies. Osten partnered with Rai on a number of India's earliest blockbuster films like Achhut Kanya and Jeevan Naiya.

Himanshu Rai
Himanshu Rai, one of the pioneers of Indian cinema, is best known as the founder of the Bombay Talkies studio in 1934, along with Devika Rani






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Kanji Lal Rathod
Kanjibhai Rathod from Maroli village in south Gujarat, was considered the first successful director in Indian cinema

Nitin Bose
Nitin Bose (26 April 1897 – 14 April 1986) was an Indian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter of the nation's film industry. In the 1930s and early 1940s, he worked with New Theatres, who made bilingual movies: in both Bengali and Hindi. Later, he moved to Bombay and directed under the banners of Bombay Talkies and Filmistan. The first use of playback singing in Indian films occurred in films directed by Bose in 1935: first in Bhagya Chakra, a Bengali film, and later the same year in its Hindi remake, Dhoop Chhaon. His most well-known work is Ganga Jamuna.

P C Barua
Pramathesh Chandra Barua (24 October 1903 – 29 November 1951) was an Indian actor, director, and screenwriter of Indian films in the pre-independence era, born in Gauripur.












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Prafulla Ghosh
Prafulla Ghosh was a director and actor, known for Maa (1934), Paisa Na Gulam (1929) and Yasmina (1930).
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R S Chowdhury
Born: June 8, 1903 in Benares, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India
Died: August 22, 1972 (age 69) in Bombay, Maharashtra, India

Sohrab Modi
Sohrab Modi was an Indian Parsi stage and film actor, director and producer. His films include Khoon Ka Khoon, a version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Sikandar, Pukar, Prithvi Vallabh, Jhansi ki Rani, Mirza Ghalib, Jailor and Nausherwan-E-Adil.

V Shantaram
V. Shantaram or Shantaram Bapu, was a Marathi Indian filmmaker, film producer and actor. He is most known for films such as Dr. Kotnis Ki Amar Kahani (1946), Amar Bhoopali (1951), Jhanak Jhanak Payal Baaje (1955), Do Aankhen Barah Haath (1957), Navrang (1959)