A play based on the life of Devika Rani, the first international ... The audience gets insights into her relationship with her co-actor Najm-ul-Hassan and Ashok Kumar.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ira Dubey and Joy Sengupta in the play; Lillete Dubey (inset) Ira Dubey is the First Lady of Indian Cinema in a play, produced and directed by her mother with Joy Sengupta as Devika’s husband ...

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 ...

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 ...