Sohrab Modi

Sohrab Modi is a Actor and also worked as Director, Producer. Sohrab Modi has mostly worked in Hindi and has worked in languages like Hindi.
He was born in 1897 and he died on 1984. He was an Indian Parsi stage and film actor, director and producer. He did movies like: Khoon Ka Khoon (1935), a version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Sikandar, Pukar, Prithvi Vallabh, Jhansi ki Rani, Mirza Ghalib, Jailor and Nausherwan-e-dil (1957). He was a travelling exhibitor. He started up with his 26 set ups and opened the Arya Subodh Theatrical Company. He started as a Parsi theatre actor with some experience in silent films. He also started a stage Film Company in 1935. He was married to Mehtab Modi, an actress who began her career in his movie Parakh. He became famous and did movies like: Pukar (1939), Sikandar (1941) and Prithvi Vallabh (1943). He played the lead role in Mirza Ghalib. The movie became hit and it had finest compositions like: "Aah ko Chaihiye Ek Umar," "Nuktacheen Hai Gham-e-Dil," "Dil-e-Nadaan Tujhe Hua Kya Hai," "Yeh Na Thi Humari Kismet”. The movies like: Kundan (1955), Nausherwan-e-Adil and Jailor (1958) also gave him the fame and success too. He got the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 1980. Check out this page for more updates on Sohrab Modi.