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Variety (a Trade Publication of Hollywood) assesses the box office potential of Awara (1951).
April 11, 1956 issue.
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Recent tremendous success of the special-effects-laden of Indian films reminded me of what I had read about such effects during the Parsi Stage Era.
Here is an add for the drama Nal Damayanti describing Eleven special effects and persuading the patrons to come, See?, See?, See?
[From the book The Indian Theatre by R K Yajnik (1933)]
Naturally, they would need people to create and produce such effects live on stage during every performance. Luckily, I was able to find a brief bio of one such pioneer, Dinshaw Irani.
[From the book Bengali Stage 1795-1873 by B N Banerjee.]
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Who's Who in India 1936. Entry for Actress Nanda's father.
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