Mumbai: Indian cinema’s prominent studio, Bombay Talkies Studios is all set to open after a long hiatus of over six decades as the production house gears up to come up with a biopic on freedom fighter Chandrashekhar Azad.
Established by filmmaker Himanshu Roy and legendary actress Devika Rani in 1934, the studio is coming up with biopic titled, “Rashtraputra – The Commander of Surgical Strikes”, 64 years after it defunct in 1954, said Dr Manoj Dubey, COO of the studio, commonly known as Bombay Talkies.
Dubey is a family member of Bombay Talkies’s co-owner Rajnarayan Dubey, who was also among the founding members of the studio, which during the pre-independence era had facilities like sound and echo-proof stages, laboratories, editing rooms and a preview theatre on the lines of an international studio.
