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Ardeshir Irani (India, 1886), a Parsi Zoroastrian, opened a movie theater in Mumbai in 1905. In 1920 he produced his first silent movie.
In 1922 Ardeshir Irani and Bhogilal Dave (who
had studied photography in New York and
had been running Dadasaheb Phalke's Hindustan Films) founded Star Films and released
Veer Abhimanyu (1922), directed by Irani and photographed by Dave.
This production company was followed by
Majestic Films (1924) and
Imperial Films (1925), and
Irani produced dozens of silent movies.
He went on to make the
first Indian talkie,
Alam Ara (1931),
and to produce
Moti Gidwani's Kisan Kanya (1937),
based on a novel by Saadat Hasan Manto,
the first color film processed in India (previously they were processed in Europe),
and even
the first Persian talkie, Dokhtar-e-Lor
(1933).
He made his last film in 1945 and died in 1969.
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