David Abraham Cheulkar (1909 – 28 December 1981), popularly known as David, was a Jewish-Indian Hindi film actor and a member of Mumbai's Marathi speaking Bene Israel community. In a career spanning four decades, he played mostly character roles,...
Jewish women were Indian cinema's first actresses
The Baghdadi Jewish community owes a significant debt of gratitude to Indian cinema because its women were among the first to act in films, at great...
Imagine yourself in the spring of 1913, at the start of Indian cinema — what we now know as Bollywood, the song-and-dance escapist film business.
Because it was deemed impolite for Hindu and Muslim women to appear on film at...
As you know, the story of the Jews in Hollywood is well-known. But what about the Jews in Bollywood? Bollywood makes more movies than Hollywood does in a year. There are more than 1,000 movies made in Bollywood each...
The Jewesses of Bollywood were small, but they had a lot of power.
Bollywood, which is a term used to describe the Indian film industry, makes more than a thousand movies a year that are seen by 3 billion people...
It gives me great pleasure and a sense of Jewish contribution to Indian cinema achievements when I read about Ms. Pramila, Born Esther Victoria Abraham ,the first Miss India 1947. She passed away recently at the ripe old age of 90 years.
Bollywood said goodbye...
Bollywood appears to be losing a legacy - its Indian Jewish patrons - at a time when it is reaching out to many countries.
Their contribution to the Hindi film industry, particularly during the silent era before independence, was significant,...
The Hindi film business, also known as Bollywood, is one of the world's largest worldwide film industries, with a population of over 1.3 billion people. It is also home to some of the world's most famous actresses. Priyanka Chopra...
Satamkar (also Satamker) is a Bene Israel family who lived for centuries in Kolaba (now Raigad District) in the Konkan region, India. Most members moved to Israel from the 1960s through the 1980s; some have settled elsewhere in the...
Some people thought it was bad for Hindu and Muslim actresses to appear on film in the early days of the now-thriving Bollywood. This led them to hire big men with Indian moustaches to act like women and dance...