JF Madan

J. F. Madan: The Indian Theatre Magnate

He was born to a Parsi family in Mumbai in the year 1857, April 27. He dropped school and joined a dramatic club as a prop boy in 1868. He also donned the cap of an exhibitor, distributor, and producer of films and plays. He owned two Parsi Theatre Company in Mumbai in the 1890s. In 1902, he moved to Calcutta and founded the Elphinstone Bioscope Company under which he started producing and exhibiting silent movies. Jyotish Sarkar’s Bengal Partition Movement in 1905 was one of the silent movies exhibited by this company. Also, Madan acquired rights to Pathe Freres films and e | Click Here...