Presented by Australian Centre for the Moving Image, this FREE exhibition captures the thrill and glamor of early Indian cinema.
In 1934, formidable and entrepreneurial movie maker Himansu Rai (1892-1940) and his movie-star partner Devika blue blood (1908-1994) co-founded the legendary metropolis Talkies film studio. cathartic forty films over twenty years the studio was one amongst India's most innovative and extremely resourced, launching the careers of many distinguished luminaries as well as Ashok Kumar and rule Kapoor.
The exhibition showcases, for the terribly 1st time, the Dietze Family Trust archive, a Melbourne-based treasure trove of quite 3000 cultural artifacts once in hand by Himansu Rai. The archive is that the most comprehensive assortment of the nineteen twenties and Thirties Indian film studio ephemera within the world.