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Mehboob Studio
Mehboob Khan

Mehboob Studio is an Indian

Best Director and was a nominee for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.[1]

It is spread over 20,000 square yards (4.2 acres) and includes five shooting stages.[2] It soon become popular with directors such as Guru Dutt, Chetan Anand and Dev Anand. In the following decades it was used by Manmohan Desai extensively. A recording studio was added in the 1970s and both remain in use.[2][3]

The studio was used from November 2010 to January 2011 for the first-ever exhibition of sculptor Anish Kapoor in India; the other part was held at the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi.[4][5]

History

A film set in making at Mehboob Studio's courtyard, in 2007.

Director

Bohra Muslim. A portion of the land housed a school run by a Parsi woman and the rest had farmland for vegetables. The construction was completed in 1954.[6]

Mehboob had made

Best Director Best Film Awards at that year's Filmfare Awards.[1] A decade after its inception, Mehboob Studio was being preferred by stars and directors alike, as many stars lived close by. When Mehboob Khan was not shooting his films, it was leased out to other producers and directors.[7]

Guru Dutt shot his iconic Kaagaz Ke Phool here,[8] and actor-director Dev Anand shot many of his movies under the Navketan Films banner here, starting with Hum Dono and followed by Guide; he even maintained an office at the studio complex for 20 years.

Mehboob Productions banner.[6]
The fortunes of the studio revived in the 1970s with the rights of Mother India reverting to the family, and a recording studio was added. In the coming decades it survived the onslaught of real estate development and a fire, which gutted stages 1 and 2 in December 2000.

Commemorative postage stamp

As a part of Khan's birth centenary celebrations, the

Indian postal department released a commemorative stamp at a function held at the studios in September 2007.[10]

The studio saw its reinvention as an arts and cultural space when its stage no. 3 was used from for the first-ever exhibition of sculptor Anish Kapoor in India, November 2010–January 2011[11] and later became the venue for the Mahindra Blues Festival 5 and 6 February 2011 and 11 and 12 February 2012.[12]

Filmography at Mehboob Studio

Year Film Notes
1992 Tirangaa
1957 Mother India[2]
1962 Hum Dono
1962 Son of India[9]
1963 Sapni
1964 Sangam
1965 Guide
1966 Amrapali
1970 Johny Mera Naam
1975
1998
2005 Black
2007
Aap Kaa Surroor
2010 Ethan's House
2012 Housefull 2
2012 Dabangg 2
2013 Chennai Express
2018 Alexa

References

  1. ^ a b "Filmfare Awards Winners List [Mother India (1957 film)]: Awards" (PDF). Googlepages.com website. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 June 2009. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  2. ^ a b c Hetal Vyas (1 November 2008). "Mehboob mere, Mehboob tere". Pune Mirror newspaper. Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  3. ^ Ranjona Banerji (7 February 2011). "Mumbai, meri mehboob?". DNA newspaper. Archived from the original on 10 February 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  4. ^ "Dates Announced for First Ever Exhibition of Anish Kapoor in India". British Council. 4 November 2010.
  5. ^ "Iconic studio now cultural hotspot". Hindustan Times, Mumbai. 1 February 2011. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  6. ^ a b "Historic Mehboob Studio ticks away in anonymity". Hindustan Times. 13 August 2007. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  7. ^ Karanjia, B. K. "Mehboob Khan: An Unfinished Story". A many-splendoured cinema. New Thacker's Fine Art Press. p. 215.
  8. ISBN 81-7991-066-0
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  9. ^ a b "Mehboob Khan profile and filmography". Upperstall.com website. Archived from the original on 29 September 2010. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
  10. ^ "Commemorative postage stamps 2007". India postal department, Government of India website. 28 January 2007. Archived from the original on 31 January 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  11. ^ "Anish Kapoor adds glitz to the Mehboob studio". CNN-IBN website. 29 November 2010. Archived from the original on 3 December 2010. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  12. ^ "Event Calendar - Mahindra BluesFestival". www.mahindrablues.com.

Further reading

External links
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