Bala Joban

Bala Joban
Bala Joban
Directed by	Baburao Patel
Produced by	Gandharva Cinetone
Starring	Padma Devi; Gulab; Mubarak; Shirin Banu; Raja Pandit;
Music by	Badri Prasad Manick
Release date	1934;
Country	India
Language	Hindi

Bala Joban is a 1934 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Baburao Patel and produced under the banner of Gandharva Cinetone. Its music was composed by Badri Prasad Manick, and the cast included Padma Devi, Gulab, Mubarak, Shirin Banu, Raja Pandit, M. Gupte, Maruti Pahelwan, Nandu Khote and Badri Prasad.

In 1935, Bala Joban became the first Hindi feature film to be exhibited in Trinidad. It had an extensive run at the Globe cinema in Port of Spain and the Gaiety cinema in San Fernando. In The Sunday Guardian in December 1935, the film was described as an "Indian Talking Film Success".

References

↑ Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (1999). Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema. British Film Institute. p. 581. ISBN 9780851706696.
↑ Rangoonwalla, Firoze; Das, Vishwanath (1970). Indian Filmography: Silent & Hindi Films, 1897-1969. J. Udeshi. p. 94.
↑ Gennari, Daniela Treveri; Vijver, Lies Van de; Ercole, Pierluigi (22 January 2024). The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative New Cinema Histories. Springer Nature. p. 351. ISBN 978-3-031-38789-0.
↑ Niranjana, Tejaswini (12 October 2006). Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration Between India and Trinidad. Duke University Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-8223-3828-4.
↑ Schaefer, David J.; Karan, Kavita (2013). Bollywood and Globalization: The Global Power of Popular Hindi Cinema. Routledge. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-415-62523-4.
↑ Courtman, Sandra (2004). Beyond the Blood, the Beach & the Banana: New Perspectives in Caribbean Studies. Ian Randle Publishers. p. 302. ISBN 978-976-637-182-1.

External links

Bala Joban at IMDb

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[RajadhyakshaWillemen1999-1] Rajadhyaksha, Ashish; Willemen, Paul (1999). Encyclopaedia of Indian cinema. British Film Institute. p. 581. ISBN 9780851706696.

[2] Rangoonwalla, Firoze; Das, Vishwanath (1970). Indian Filmography: Silent & Hindi Films, 1897-1969. J. Udeshi. p. 94.

[3] Gennari, Daniela Treveri; Vijver, Lies Van de; Ercole, Pierluigi (22 January 2024). The Palgrave Handbook of Comparative New Cinema Histories. Springer Nature. p. 351. ISBN 978-3-031-38789-0.

[4] Niranjana, Tejaswini (12 October 2006). Mobilizing India: Women, Music, and Migration Between India and Trinidad. Duke University Press. p. 169. ISBN 978-0-8223-3828-4.

[5] Schaefer, David J.; Karan, Kavita (2013). Bollywood and Globalization: The Global Power of Popular Hindi Cinema. Routledge. p. 34. ISBN 978-0-415-62523-4.

[6] Courtman, Sandra (2004). Beyond the Blood, the Beach & the Banana: New Perspectives in Caribbean Studies. Ian Randle Publishers. p. 302. ISBN 978-976-637-182-1.