Sohrab Merwanji Modi (2 November 1897 – 28 January 1984) was an Indian stage and film actor, director and producer. His films include Khoon Ka Khoon (1935)...
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Mehtab (actress) (redirect from Mehtab Modi)
with whom she had a son. They divorced later and she married Sohrab Modi in 1946. Modi cast her in the historical drama Jhansi Ki Rani (1953), which...
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(Hamlet) (1935) with Sohrab Modi under whose Minerva Movietone banner she acted for several years. Her high-point came with Modi's Pukar (1939) in which...
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Pukar (1939 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
Pukar (Urdu: پُکار) is a 1939 Urdu film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi at the production house, Minerva Movietone. The film is about Mughal emperor...
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Sikandar (1941 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
Sikandar or Sikander is a 1941 epic Bollywood film directed by Sohrab Modi and starring Prithviraj Kapoor as Alexander the Great. The battle sequences...
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Jhansi Ki Rani (1953 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
directed by Sohrab Modi for his Minerva Movietone production banner. It is credited as the first Technicolor film made in India and starred Modi's wife, Mehtab...
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drama film directed by Bimal Roy. It stars Dilip Kumar, Meena Kumari, Sohrab Modi, Nazir Hussain, Nigar Sultana among others. It is based on the play Yahudi...
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Kundan (film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
social drama film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi for Minerva Movietone. The film stars Sohrab Modi, Sunil Dutt, Nimmi, Pran, Om Prakash, Kumkum...
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nomination. Yahudi, directed by Bimal Roy starred Kumari, Dilip Kumar, Sohrab Modi, Nazir Hussain and Nigar Sultana. It was based on the play Yahudi Ki...
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Sheesh Mahal (1950 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
of Mirrors) is a 1950 social Urdu/Hindi film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi for Minerva Movietone. The story writer was Hakim Ahmad Shuja, an Urdu...
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thriller film directed by Ravindra Dave. It stars Sohrab Modi, Ashok Kumar, Meena Kumari. Sohrab Modi as Dayal Ashok Kumar as Chandan / Ashok Meena Kumari...
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Saigal discovered him and took him to Mumbai (Bombay) to work for Sohrab Modi's Minerva Movietone film company, where he started his career working...
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incomplete works, Jwala (1971) was released. Co-starring Sunil Dutt and Sohrab Modi, the film was mainly completed with the help of body doubles. It marked...
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Nausherwan-E-Adil (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
Mohabbat, is a 1957 Indian costume action drama Hindi/Urdu film directed by Sohrab Modi. Produced by Minerva Movietone, it had music composed by C. Ramchandra...
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Sandeep Modi (born 1982), Indian filmmaker Seema Mody, Indian journalist Shrikrishan Modi, Indian politician Sohrab Modi, Indian actor Subhash Modi (born...
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Jailor (1958 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
psychosocial melodrama film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi. The film was a remake of Modi's earlier Jailor (1938). The production company was Minerva...
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Jailor (1938 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
1938 Hindustani psychosocial melodrama film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi. Produced by Minerva Movietone, the story and lyrics were written by...
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came into prominence as the washer-woman in the role of Rami Dhoban in Sohrab Modi's Pukar (1939). As a woman seeking justice for the death of her husband...
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Madhubala (in her final, posthumous film appearance) and Sunil Dutt, with Sohrab Modi and Pran in pivotal roles. The film's music was composed by Shankar–Jaikishan...
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Prithvi Vallabh (1943 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
(Hindi: पृथ्वी वल्लभ) is a historical drama Bollywood film directed by Sohrab Modi. Made under the Minerva Movietone banner it was released in 1943. It...
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Meetha Zahar (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
Poison) is a 1938 Indian Hindi/Urdu-language social drama film directed by Sohrab Modi for his Minerva Movietone productions. The screenplay was by Gajanan...
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Bharosa (1940 film) (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
is a 1940 Hindi/Urdu social melodrama film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi. Made under the Minerva Movietone banner, the story and lyrics were by...
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career playing a character role, as Ambhi, Raja of Taxila's sister in Sohrab Modi's Sikandar (1941). Married to her fourth husband, Roop K. Shorey, by the...
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Raj Hath (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
fantasy drama film directed and produced by Sohrab Modi. It starred Madhubala, Pradeep Kumar, Tun Tun, Sohrab Modi and Ulhas in the main roles. The music for...
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Khoon Ka Khoon (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
1935 sound film adaptation of the Shakespearen play Hamlet. Directed by Sohrab Modi under his Stage Film Company banner, it is cited as one of the earliest...
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Mohan Daulat (1949): Mahipal, Madhubala, Jankidas Sheesh Mahal (1950): Sohrab Modi, Naseem Banu, Mubarak, Pran, Nigar Sultana, Leela Mishra Aaram (1951):...
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Said-e-Havas (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
John, directed by Sohrab Modi. It was based on the Urdu play Said-e-Hawas by Agha Hashar Kashmiri, published in 1908. Produced by Modi's Stage Film Company...
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Samay Bada Balwan (category Films directed by Sohrab Modi)
is a 1969 Hindi social moral drama film produced and directed by Sohrab Modi. Modi had sold his studio a year earlier but tried to revive the Minerva...
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last screen appearance. He had earlier appeared in Pukar, directed by Sohrab Modi, Humayun and Roti, both directed by Mehboob Khan, and Stree, directed...
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Prithivivallabh Prithvi Vallabh (1943 film), a 1943 Hindi film directed by Sohrab Modi, based on 1921 novel Prithivivallabh Prithvi Vallabh (TV series), also...
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