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Filmmaker · India

Mehboob Khan

Died in 1964

Mehboob Khan, born Mehboob Khan Ramzan Khan in Bilimora, in present-day Gujarat, in 1907 according to most sources, left his small town young for Bombay and began as an extra at the Imperial Film Company, hidden in a jar among the thieves of an Ali Baba. A director at Sagar Movietone from 1935, then at National Studios, he founded his own production company in the early forties, then his studios in Bandra. Struck down by a heart attack the day after Nehru's death, he died in Bombay on 28 May 1964.

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