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Filmmaker · India

Rustomji Dhotiwala

Rustomji Dhotiwala, a Gujarati-speaking Parsi, was one of the directors of the company founded in Calcutta by Jamshedji Framji Madan, which at its height controlled a large share of Indian cinemas and dominated the entertainment industry for nearly twenty years. Almost nothing else is known about him, neither his dates nor his training, as with most of those who made the roughly thirteen hundred Indian silent films, almost all of them lost.

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