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Filmmaker · India

Homi Wadia

Died in 2004

Homi Wadia was born on 22 May 1911 into a Parsi family descended from the shipbuilders of Surat. He left school after a single day, at sixteen, to assist his elder brother J. B. H. Wadia, with whom he founded Wadia Movietone in 1933, and then created Basant Pictures in 1942. He made more than forty films over five decades, mostly adventure and fantasy, married the actress Nadia in 1961 and died on 10 December 2004.

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