Arun Puranik | arun.puranik@gmail.com One still thinks of the Parsi riots that happened roughly 75 years ago while discussing Imperial Cinema. The first Bombay Talkies film, "Jawani ki Hawa", by Himanshu Roy, was released on September 16th, 1935, at Imperial. Devika Rani, the movie's main character, is a pretty young woman who doesn't want to...
Born on 3 June 1890, Baburao Krishna Rao Meystri belonged to karveer Nagar. He was widely famous in entire Kolhapur; he was an eccentric artist. Baburao was an exceptional engineer and a compiler. He had the camera made for filming movies and was the one to introduce artificial lighting, trolley for cameras, three-dimensional characters, stenography, curtains...
