Director: B.P. Mishra; Cinematographer: Rustom Irani; Cast: Ermeline, Prithviraj Kapoor, Mazhar Khan, Baburao Sansare, Baby Devi
Summary: In contrast to
Cinema Queen's (1925)
exploitation of voyeurism or
Daily Mail's
(1930) kiss-and-tell approach to the cinema,
this film presented a fictionalised biography of
its maker. One of the major characters is a
producer modelled on Kohinoor's proprietor,
D.N. Sampat, including a reference to the real-
life occasion when the studio, on the verge of
bankruptcy, survived only because its
employees donated money and gold
ornaments to keep it afloat. Another character
referred to a financier at the Imperial Studio.
The plot also touchecl on the way a producer
can curtail the freedom of a director.
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