Sohrab Modi

Sohrab Modi was born in Bombay on 2 November 1897 into a Parsi family and grew up partly in Rampur. A travelling projectionist in Gwalior, he became a Shakespearean actor in the troupe of his brother Rustom, with whom he founded in 1935 a company to film its repertoire, then in 1936 Minerva Movietone. There he directed some twenty films, often historical, and acted in many of them. He received the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1980 and died in Bombay on 28 January 1984.

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• CinemaPukarपुकारSohrab Modi · 1939Cinema