Filmistan

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Filmistan was an Indian film company of Hindi films of the 1940s and 1950s.

Filmistan was founded in 1943/44 on the site of the former Sharda studios by Sashadhar Mukerji and Rai Bahadur Chunilal . Both had previously worked in the production management of the Bombay Talkies company , but had fallen out with the new owner Devika Rani . Filmistan's start-up capital was generated from Mukerji's successful productions Naya Sansar (1941) and Kismet (1943). The company's first production was Chal Chal Re Naujawan (1944), directed by Gyan Mukherjee . The studio pursued a concept of medium-budget productions that were to sell to an all-Indian audience through their film stars and music. This made Filmistan one of the most important Indian film production facilities of the early post-independence period.

The studio employed directors Gyan Mukherjee, PL Santoshi , Subodh Mukherjee , Nasir Hussain , Nandlal Jaswantlal , Kishore Sahu and Ramesh Saigal ; film stars Ashok Kumar , Dev Anand , Dilip Kumar , Shammi Kapoor and Nalini Jaywant ; and the film music composers C. Ramchandra and Sachin Dev Burman . With the commercial success of Shaheed (1948), Shabnam (1949) - the first joint film by the screen couple Dilip Kumar and Kamini Kaushal - and Samadhi (1950), Filmistan established itself as the most successful studio of Hindi film of the 1950s, whose stylistic influence went up to to the 70s films Manmohan Desais .

After disagreements with the main financier Tolaram Jalan, an industrialist, Sashadhar Mukerji left Filmistan and founded the production company Filmalaya in 1958 . Since then, Filmistan 's studio premises in Mumbai 's Goregaon district have only been rented out for film productions.

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