Homi wadia biography of rory

Homi and his brother Jamshed Wadia built a brand around stunt films and gave India its first costumed superhero. Amborish takes you through the story of these two brothers. Once Upon a Cinema is series which will illuminate the dark, unexplored crevices of Indian cinema. In it, the writer will showcase stories and faces long forgotten, share uncommon perspectives about stars and filmmakers, and recount tales that have never been told.

Homi Wadia: Nadia Wadia.

Dwarkadas Narendas Sampat had stumbled upon the business of filmmaking quite early on, and was fascinated by it. Around when he was 20 years old, Sampat bought a movie camera from the Edison Kaleidoscope Company and started exhibiting films on a makeshift screen. Bhakta Vidur also turned out to be the first banned film in India, for its depiction of Gandhian symbols.

Deware, set up a film processing lab within the compounds of Kohinoor.

She retired prior to , and then married () Homi Wadia, the brother to her producer, J.B.H.

It came to be known as Deware Film Lab. Two brothers, Jamshed and Homi Wadia, used to work in the film lab. Homi was a lab developer, and Jamshed had earlier worked with G. Deware on a film called Vasant Leela The Wadia brothers hailed from a ship-building family, and had shocked everyone when they chose to get into the film business.

Jamshed had just witnessed Douglas Fairbanks on Mark of Zorro and Son of Zorro, and was quite taken in by the swashbuckling hero. Many young men used to hang around the Kohinoor studio complex, hoping to be noticed by a producer or two. As the brothers were working in the lab, one of the youngsters, Yeshwant Dave, claimed that he could do what Fairbanks did in Zorro.

Give me a chance and I too can jump from rooftop to rooftop, like Zorro.