Mehboob Studio
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Mehboob Studio is an India
n film studio and recording studio
in Bandra (W), Mumbai
, founded by director-producer Mehboob Khan in 1954 who owned Mehboob Productions, and is most known for the films like Mother India
(1957), which won the Filmfare Awards
for Best Film
and Best Director
and was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
. It is spread over 20,000 square yards and includes five shooting stages and soon become popular with directors like Guru Dutt
, Chetan Anand
and Dev Anand
, and in following decades it was used by Manmohan Desai
extensively. A recording studio was added in 1970s and both still remain in use to-date.
The studio was used from November 2010 – January 2011 for the first-ever exhibition of sculptor Anish Kapoor
in India, of which the other part was held at the National Gallery of Modern Art
, New Delhi.
(1946) and Andaz (1949), when started looking a land closer to central Mumbai
compared with older studios like Filmistan
and Bombay Talkies
which were situated in far-flung, Goregoan and Malad. Eventually he settled for seaside Bandra, then a quiet and marshy area, long before the Reclamation that took place in the later decades. The plot close to historic Mount Mary's Church was brought in 1951 from Jaffer Bhai, a local Bohra
Muslim, a portion of land housed a school run by a Parsi lady and the rest had farmland for vegetables. The construction was completed in 1954.
Meanwhile Mehboob had made Aan
(1952) and was midst of shooting Dilip Kumar starrer, Amar
(1954), when the studio opened its doors. Mehboob shot his next to films, Paisa hi Paisa and Awaaz, but it was not until he made Mother India here in 1957, that he tasted both critical and cinematic success again. Mother India went on to receive an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
nomination and won the Best Film
and Best Director
Best Film Awards at that years Filmfare Awards
. By the end of a decade from its inception, Mehboob was being preferred by stars and directors alike, as many starts like close by. Whenever Mehboob Khan was not shooting his films, it was leased out to other producers and directors.
Guru Dutt shot his iconic Kaagaz Ke Phool
here , and actor-director Dev Anand
shot many of his film under Navketan Films banner here, starting with Hum Dono
and followed by Guide
, and even maintained an office at the studio complex for 20 years.
But Mehboob Khan on the other hand, could never recapture his mantle after the success of Mother India, his subsequent films flopped including his last one Son of India (1962); when he died in 1964 at the age of 56, he left behind financial debts on his family. In fact, Son of India was also the last film produced under the Mehboob Productions banner. The fortunes of the studio revived in 1970s with the rights of Mother India reverted to the family and a recording studio was added. In the coming decades it survived not the onslaught of real estate development, but also a fire which gutted stage no. 1 and 2 in December 2000. As a part Mehboob Khan's birth centenary celebrations, the Indian postal department released of a commemorative stamp of Mehmood Khan at a function held at the Studios in September 2007.
The studio saw its reinvention as an arts and cultural space, when in 2010 its Stage no. 3, was used from for the first-ever exhibition of sculptor Anish Kapoor in India, November 2010 – January 2011 , and later became the venue for "Mahindra Blues Festival" one February 5 & 6th 2011.
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
n film studio and recording studio
Recording studio
A recording studio is a facility for sound recording and mixing. Ideally both the recording and monitoring spaces are specially designed by an acoustician to achieve optimum acoustic properties...
in Bandra (W), Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
, founded by director-producer Mehboob Khan in 1954 who owned Mehboob Productions, and is most known for the films like Mother India
Mother India
Mother India is a 1957 Hindi film epic, written and directed by Mehboob Khan and starring Nargis, Sunil Dutt, Rajendra Kumar and Raaj Kumar. The film, a melodrama, is a remake of Mehboob Khan's earlier film, Aurat...
(1957), which won the Filmfare Awards
Filmfare Awards
The Filmfare Awards are presented annually by The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film industry of India. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the oldest and most prominent film events given for Hindi films in India. The awards were...
for Best Film
Filmfare Best Movie Award
The Filmfare Best Film Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films.The award was first given in 1954. Here is a list of the award winners and the nominees of the respective years...
and Best Director
Filmfare Best Director Award
The Filmfare Best Director Award is one of the main awards presented given by the annual Filmfare Awards to recognise directors working in the Hindi film Industry. It was first presented in 1954 in the inaugural year.-Superlatives:...
and was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
. It is spread over 20,000 square yards and includes five shooting stages and soon become popular with directors like Guru Dutt
Guru Dutt
Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone , popularly known as Guru Dutt, was an Indian film director, producer and actor. He is often credited with ushering in the golden era of Hindi cinema...
, Chetan Anand
Chetan Anand
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and Dev Anand
Dev Anand
Dharam Dev Anand , better known as Dev Anand , is an Indian Hindi Cinema actor, director and film producer. Dev is the second of three brothers who were active in Hindi Cinema. His brothers are Chetan Anand and Vijay Anand. Their sister, Sheel Kanta Kapur, is the mother of renowned Hindi and...
, and in following decades it was used by Manmohan Desai
Manmohan Desai
Manmohan Desai was a producer and director of Indian movies.- Background :His father, Kikubhai Desai, was an Indian film producer and owner of Paramount Studios from 1931 to 1941. His productions, mainly stunt films, included Circus Queen, Golden Gang, and Sheikh Challi...
extensively. A recording studio was added in 1970s and both still remain in use to-date.
The studio was used from November 2010 – January 2011 for the first-ever exhibition of sculptor Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor
Anish Kapoor CBE RA is a British sculptor of Indian birth. Born in Mumbai , Kapoor has lived and worked in London since the early 1970s when he moved to study art, first at the Hornsey College of Art and later at the Chelsea School of Art and Design.He represented Britain in the XLIV Venice...
in India, of which the other part was held at the National Gallery of Modern Art
National Gallery of Modern Art
The National Gallery of Modern Art is the leading Indian art gallery. The main museum at New Delhi was established on March 29, 1954 by the Government of India, with subsequent branches at Mumbai and Bangalore...
, New Delhi.
History
Director Mehboob Khan who started his directorial journey in 1935, had already established Mehboob Productions in 1942 and had made hits like Anmol GhadiAnmol Ghadi
Anmol Ghadi is a 1946 Hindi film directed by Mehboob Khan, starring Surendra, Suraiya and Noor Jehan.The film was musical hit and still remembered for its music by Naushad, which have hits like, Aawaaz De Kahaan Hai, Jawaan Hai Mohabbat Haseen Hai Zamana and Mere Bachpan Ke Saathi Mujhe Bhool Na...
(1946) and Andaz (1949), when started looking a land closer to central Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...
compared with older studios like Filmistan
Filmistan
Filmistan was a film production company and film studio of Indian film industry from Goregaon, Mumbai. It is located very near to Patkar College on SV road spread over seven acres. Many students have claimed to see superstars in the studio. Patkar College's reputation has increased due to this...
and Bombay Talkies
Bombay Talkies
The Bombay Talkies Limited was a movie studio produced 102 movies, founded in 1934 in Malad, Bombay , India, by Himanshu Rai, Rajnarayan Dube and Devika Rani along with businessmen like F. E...
which were situated in far-flung, Goregoan and Malad. Eventually he settled for seaside Bandra, then a quiet and marshy area, long before the Reclamation that took place in the later decades. The plot close to historic Mount Mary's Church was brought in 1951 from Jaffer Bhai, a local Bohra
Mustaali
The Musta‘lī Ismā'īlī Muslims are so named because they accept Al-Musta'li as the nineteenth Fatimid caliph and legitimate successor to his father, al-Mustansir...
Muslim, a portion of land housed a school run by a Parsi lady and the rest had farmland for vegetables. The construction was completed in 1954.
Meanwhile Mehboob had made Aan
Aan
Aan , also known as The Savage Princess in the U.S.A, is a 1952 technicolor Hindi musical produced and directed by the legendary Mehboob Khan, it is said to be India's first technicolour film. It stars Dilip Kumar, Premnath, Nimmi and marked the debut of Nadira who replaced the original choice...
(1952) and was midst of shooting Dilip Kumar starrer, Amar
Amar (1954 film)
Amar is a 1954 black-and-white Hindi movie. Produced and directed by Mehboob Khan, the film stars Dilip Kumar, Madhubala, Nimmi and Jayant. Amar features music by Naushad with lyrics by Shakeel Badayuni.-Plot:...
(1954), when the studio opened its doors. Mehboob shot his next to films, Paisa hi Paisa and Awaaz, but it was not until he made Mother India here in 1957, that he tasted both critical and cinematic success again. Mother India went on to receive an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
The Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film is one of the Academy Awards of Merit, popularly known as the Oscars, handed out annually by the U.S.-based Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
nomination and won the Best Film
Filmfare Best Movie Award
The Filmfare Best Film Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films.The award was first given in 1954. Here is a list of the award winners and the nominees of the respective years...
and Best Director
Filmfare Best Director Award
The Filmfare Best Director Award is one of the main awards presented given by the annual Filmfare Awards to recognise directors working in the Hindi film Industry. It was first presented in 1954 in the inaugural year.-Superlatives:...
Best Film Awards at that years Filmfare Awards
Filmfare Awards
The Filmfare Awards are presented annually by The Times Group to honour both artistic and technical excellence of professionals in the Hindi language film industry of India. The Filmfare ceremony is one of the oldest and most prominent film events given for Hindi films in India. The awards were...
. By the end of a decade from its inception, Mehboob was being preferred by stars and directors alike, as many starts like close by. Whenever Mehboob Khan was not shooting his films, it was leased out to other producers and directors.
Guru Dutt shot his iconic Kaagaz Ke Phool
Kaagaz Ke Phool
Kaagaz Ke Phool, , is a 1959 Hindi film produced and directed by Guru Dutt, who also played the lead role in the film .The film was a box office disaster of its time but was later resurrected as a world cinema cult classic in the 1980s. The film's music was composed by S. D...
here , and actor-director Dev Anand
Dev Anand
Dharam Dev Anand , better known as Dev Anand , is an Indian Hindi Cinema actor, director and film producer. Dev is the second of three brothers who were active in Hindi Cinema. His brothers are Chetan Anand and Vijay Anand. Their sister, Sheel Kanta Kapur, is the mother of renowned Hindi and...
shot many of his film under Navketan Films banner here, starting with Hum Dono
Hum Dono
Hum Dono may refer to:* Hum Dono starring Dev Anand* Hum Dono starring Rajesh Khanna* Hum Dono * Hum Dono , a Hindi songs countdown show which follows a story of two people...
and followed by Guide
Guide (film)
Guide is a 1965 Hindi film starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman. It was directed by Vijay Anand, who also contributed to the screenplay. The film is based on the critically acclaimed novel, The Guide, by R. K. Narayan, and is widely considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Indian film...
, and even maintained an office at the studio complex for 20 years.
But Mehboob Khan on the other hand, could never recapture his mantle after the success of Mother India, his subsequent films flopped including his last one Son of India (1962); when he died in 1964 at the age of 56, he left behind financial debts on his family. In fact, Son of India was also the last film produced under the Mehboob Productions banner. The fortunes of the studio revived in 1970s with the rights of Mother India reverted to the family and a recording studio was added. In the coming decades it survived not the onslaught of real estate development, but also a fire which gutted stage no. 1 and 2 in December 2000. As a part Mehboob Khan's birth centenary celebrations, the Indian postal department released of a commemorative stamp of Mehmood Khan at a function held at the Studios in September 2007.
The studio saw its reinvention as an arts and cultural space, when in 2010 its Stage no. 3, was used from for the first-ever exhibition of sculptor Anish Kapoor in India, November 2010 – January 2011 , and later became the venue for "Mahindra Blues Festival" one February 5 & 6th 2011.
Filmography
| Year | Film | Notes |
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| 1962 | Hum Dono Hum Dono Hum Dono may refer to:* Hum Dono starring Dev Anand* Hum Dono starring Rajesh Khanna* Hum Dono * Hum Dono , a Hindi songs countdown show which follows a story of two people... |
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| 1965 | Guide Guide (film) Guide is a 1965 Hindi film starring Dev Anand and Waheeda Rehman. It was directed by Vijay Anand, who also contributed to the screenplay. The film is based on the critically acclaimed novel, The Guide, by R. K. Narayan, and is widely considered to be one of the masterpieces of the Indian film... |
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| 1966 | Amrapali Amrapali (film) Amrapali is a 1966 historical Hindi film, directed by Lekh Tandon, starring Vyjayanthimala and Sunil Dutt as leads.It was based on the life of Amrapali , the nagarvadhu of Vaishali, the capital of the Licchavi republic in ancient India around 500 BC and Ajatashatru, the king of the Magadha empire,... |
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| 1970 | Johny Mera Naam Johny Mera Naam Johny Mera Naam is a 1970 Indian Hindi movie. Directed by Vijay Anand, it stars the director's brother, Dev Anand and Pran in the role of a pair of brothers separated in childhood. Hema Malini, Jeevan, Premnath, I. S. Johar and Iftekhar also star in this movie. It is considered a Dev Anand... |
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| 1971 | Lal Patthar Lal Patthar Lal Patthar is a 1971 Hindi film, produced by F. C. Mehra, and directed by Sushil Majumdar. The film stars Raaj Kumar, Vinod Mehra, Hema Malini, Rakhee, Ajit, Asit Sen and Paintal... |
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| 1975 | Aandhi Aandhi Aandhi is a 1975 Indian movie supposedly based on then-prime minister Indira Gandhi's life, but in reality, it was inspired by Tarkeshwari Sinha, apart from Indira Gandhi. It was directed by Gulzar... |
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| 1998 | Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Kuch Kuch Hota Hai Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is a Hindi romantic comedy film, released in India and the United Kingdom on 16 October 1998. The film was written and directed by the debuting Karan Johar and stars the popular on-screen pair of Shahrukh Khan and Kajol in their fourth movie together... |
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| 2005 | Black | |
| Paheli Paheli Paheli is a Bollywood ghost movie, released in India on 24 June 2005, directed by Amol Palekar and produced by Gauri Khan, Sanjiv Chawla and Shahrukh Khan, who also plays the male lead... |
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| 2007 | Saawariya Saawariya Saawariya is a 2007 Hindi film based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's short story "White Nights".Co-produced by Sony Pictures Entertainment and released on 9 November 2007, it is the first Bollywood movie to receive a North American release by a Hollywood studio, shortly preceding Walt Disney Pictures'... |
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| 2010 | Guzaarish Guzaarish Guzaarish is a 2010 Hindi drama romance film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali, starring Hrithik Roshan and Aishwarya Rai in the lead roles. The film is produced by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and Ronnie Screwvala under the banner of SLB Films and UTV Motion Pictures.The first look of Guzaarish was... |
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External links
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