FPJ Anniversary 2021: Chasing the Bollywood dream: From Bombay Talkies to Mumbai Studios
India has film industries flourishing in many states, but the reason Biswajit Chatterjee, a star in Bengal, left his family back home to carve a niche for himself in Bollywood, first as a âsuspense heroâ and then as a âdesi Elvisâ, is because Hindi cinema has always a wider reach as compared to regional cinema
Amitabh Bachchan in Deewaar
On January 28, 1934, a 22-year-old law student from Kolkata stepped out of the train with a look of wonder in his eyes. Kumudlal Kunjilal Ganguly had spent the Rs 35 his father had sent him to pay for his second-year exams to buy a third-class ticket to the City of Dreams. His college principal in whom he had confided his secret desire to make movies, had suggested that Kumud meet Himanshu Rai who had just arrived from London to start a studio in Bombay (now Mumbai).