Ardeshir Irani

Ardeshir Irani was born in Pune on 5 December 1886 into a Parsi family. A student at the J. J. School of Art in Bombay, he was a schoolteacher, joined his father's business selling musical instruments and phonographs, then ran a cinema in Bombay, the Alexander, where he learned the trade. A producer from 1917, he founded several companies, among them Imperial Film in the mid-twenties, directed the first Indian sound film and produced the country's first colour film. First president of the Indian producers' association in 1937, made a Khan Bahadur, he died in Bombay on 14 October 1969.

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• Cinemaدختر لرArdeshir Irani · 1933Cinema