The studio’s first film, Jawani Ki Hawa (1935), starring Devika Rani and Najm-ul-Hassan, was shot entirely on a train. By the mid 1930, Devika established herself as India’s first female ...

Film buffs like to think they know the Devika Rani story ... She infamously ran away with her co-star, Najm-ul-Hassan, prompting the studio to replace him with a newcomer named Kumudlal Ganguly ...

Among the triggers for Rai’s behaviour appears to have been Devika Rani’s well-documented affair with Najam ul Hussain, with whom she appeared in the first Bombay Talkies production Jawani Ki ...

If all this wasn’t complicated enough, the book also introduces you to Himanshu’s first wife Mary Hainlin and to Devika Rani’s extramarital affair with Najam-ul-Hussain. Devika Rani and ...

Karma (1933), was the first film to introduce an on-screen kiss and starred Devika Rani and her husband Himanshu Rai. The film was produced by Rai, and he offered Devika a female lead role as they ...

Devika Rani’s was a life of courage and achievement ... is that she had once eloped with actor Najam-ul-Hasan—an episode that is at the centre of Jubilee. It is as if her education ...

While Devika Rani returned, Himanshu Rai fired Najmul Hassan and decided to restart the film Jeevan Naiya from scratch. And he was now looking for another lead actor to replace Hassan. Sasadhar ...