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Ardeshir Irani
Indian writer, director and producer (1886–1969)
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Khan Bahadur Ardeshir Irani (5 December 1886 – 14 October 1969) was a writer, director, producer, actor, film distributor, film showman and cinematographer in the silent and sound eras of early Indian cinema.
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He is considered one of the greatest personalities in recent Indian Cinema. He was the director of India's first sound film Alam Ara. He was the producer of India's first colour film Kisan Kanya. He was renowned for making films in Hindi, Telugu, English, German, Indonesian, Persian, Urdu and Tamil.
He was a successful entrepreneur who owned film theatres, a gramophone agency, and a car agency.
Life and career
Ardeshir Irani was born into a ParsiZoroastrian family on 5 December 1886 in Pune, Bombay Presidency.[2][3] In 1905, Irani became the Indian representative of Universal Studios and he ran Alexander Cinema in Bombay with Abdulally Esoofally for over forty years.
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