Roop Kishore Shorey
Roop Kishore Shorey (born January 28, 1914 in Quetta , British India , † June 3, 1973 in Bombay , Maharashtra ) was an Indian film director and producer of the Panjabi and Hindi films .
Life
Roop Kishore Shorey is the son of Panjab film pioneer Roshan Lal Shorey . He started working for his father's film company Kamala Movietone in Lahore in 1931 as a film technician and cameraman and made more than 50 short documentaries for the company in the early 1930s. He made his feature film debut in 1935 with the rise of the talkie in India with Majnu 1935 , a film adaptation of the Laila and Majnu legend . In partnership with film distributor Dalsukh Pancholi , Shorey made his business with cheap productions such as Tarzan Ki Beti (1938). He directed Ek Musafir (1940) together with his father Roshan Lal.
During the Second World War he also worked for the state propaganda film production of Information Films of India . In the course of the partition of India , the Shoreys gave up their studios in Lahore and moved to Bombay. He first worked for a year for the Films Division , the successor organization to Information Films of India. Roop Kishore Shorey then re-established himself with the film company Shorey Films, founded in 1948. He experienced his first major success in Hindi films with Ek Thi Ladki (1949), in which his wife Meena Shorey played the leading role. She also appeared in other of his film comedies. His last film, Ek Thi Rita / A Girl Named Rita (1971), was also produced bilingually in English as it was aimed at the US market with it.
Filmography
- 1935: Majnu 1935
- 1938: Tarzan Ki Beti
- 1939: Khooni Jadugar
- 1939: Gul Bakavali
- 1940: Dulla Bhatti
- 1940: Ek Musafir
- 1941: Himmat
- 1942: Nishani
- 1942: Mangti
- 1943: Koel
- 1945: Din Raat
- 1946: Shalimar
- 1947: Paro
- 1948: Chaman
- 1949: Ek Thi Ladki
- 1951: Dholak
- 1951: Mukhda
- 1953: Aag Ka Dariya
- 1953: Ek Do Teen
- 1955: Jalwa
- 1961: Aplam Chaplam
- 1961: Ek Ladki Saat Ladke
- 1962: Main Shadi Karne Chala
- 1966: Akalmand
- 1971: Ek Thi Reeta / A Girl Named Reeta
literature
- Roop Kishore Shorey. In: Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Willemen: Encyclopaedia of Indian Cinema , p. 216
- Roop Kishore Shorey. In: Sanjit Narwekar: Directory of Indian Film-Makers and Films , 1994, p. 309
Web links
- Roop K. Shorey in the Internet Movie Database (English)(1st entry)
- RK Shoery in the Internet Movie Database (English)(2nd entry)
- Roop K Shorey, pioneer of full-length situational comedies
- Roop K. Shorey at osianama.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Shorey, Roop Kishore |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Shorey, Roop K .; Shorey, RK |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian film director and producer of Panjabi and Hindi films |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 28, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Quetta , British India |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd June 1973 |
| Place of death | Bombay , Maharashtra |