Dinshaw Billimoria (1904 in

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and director. He has been referred to as the

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of Indian cinema.

Life

Dinshaw Billimoria made his debut in 1925 in N. D. Sarpotdar's mythological-historical film ''Chhatrapati Sambhaji''. In 1927, he moved to the film company Imperial Films Company and partnered with Sulochana in Mohan Bhavnani's ''Wildcat of Bombay'' (1927) and R. S. Choudhury's ''

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'' (1928), which were his first big successes. At the end of the silent film era from 1927 to 1929 and in the early talkies in India from 1933 to 1939, Billimoria and Sulochana formed a popular romantic lead, which delighted a broad audience, especially in romantic dramas by R. S. Choudhury. Billimoria was considered the highest paid silent movie star in India. After 1932, they shot talkies remakes of several of the silent film hits, among them ''Anarkali'' (1935) and ''Bambai Ki Billi/Wildcat of Bombay'' (1936). He appeared in several films for the film company between 1929 and 1932 for

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and Nandlal Jaswantlal. Billimoria probably directed two films in 1940 and 1942; but ''Azadi-e-Watan'' (1940) may be a dubbed version of a US import.''Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema'', p. 66 His brother was the actor Eddie Billimoria.

Filmography

Literature

* The entry of ''Dinshaw Billimoria'' in Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: ''Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema'', S. 66

References

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