Filmistan

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'''Filmistan''' is an Indian [[film studio]] based in [[Goregaon]], [[Mumbai]]. Spread over five acres, near [[Patkar-Varde College|Patkar College]] on [[Swami Vivekanand Road (Mumbai)|S.V. Road]], the studio has seven shooting floors, and a temple and garden for outdoor locations.<ref name=hindu/> Patkar College's reputation has increased due to this studio. It previously operated as a film production company as well.

== History ==
[[Sashadhar Mukherjee|Shashadhar Mukherjee]], Rai Bahadur Chunilal (father of music director [[Madan Mohan (music director)|Madan Mohan]]), [[Ashok Kumar]], and [[Gyan Mukherjee]] left Bombay Talkies after the death of director [[Himanshu Rai]] and founded Filmistan Studios in 1943.<ref name="Gulzar593" />

[[Nasir Hussain]], who joined Filmistan in 1948 as a writer, was successful as a [[screenwriter]] for films such as ''Anarkali'', ''Munimji'' and ''Paying Guest''. He started [[film director|film direction]] with ''Tumsa Nahin Dekha'' and became a successful director. Filmistan produced a number of successful hit movies in the 1940s and 1950s, including hits such as ''Shaheed'' (1948), ''Shabnam'' (1949) and ''Sargam'' (1950) and successful films such as ''[[Anarkali (1953 film)|Anarkali]]'' (1953) and ''[[Nagin (1954 film)|Nagin]]'' (1954). Other notable films were ''[[Jagriti]]'' (1954), which won the [[Filmfare Best Movie Award]] in 1956, and also ''[[Munimji]]'' (1955), ''[[Tumsa Nahin Dekha (1957 film)|Tumsa Nahin Dekha]]'' (1957) and ''[[Paying Guest]]'' (1957).

However, in 1958, Mukherjee left Filmistan to established his own studio, Filmalaya, and continued to produce films, such as ''[[Love in Shimla]]'' (1960) and ''[[Ek Musafir Ek Hasina]]'' (1962).<ref name="Gulzar593">[[#Gu|Gulzar, p. 593]]</ref>

Eventually, Tolaram Jalan bought the studio from Sashadhar Mukherjee and Ashok Kumar in the late 1950s.<ref name="hindu">{{cite web | title = Filmistan not for sale, says studio owner |publisher= The Hindu| url = http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/filmistan-not-for-sale-says-studio-owner/article1459911.ece |date=16 February 2011| access-date = 2014-04-29 }}</ref>

In the following years, the studio wound down. ''Dooj Ka Chand'' made in 1964, and directed by [[Nitin Bose]], was one of the last films to come out of Filmistan Studios. The premises continued to function as a studio, with recent films such as ''[[Ra.One]]'' (2011) and ''[[Bodyguard (2011 Hindi film)|Bodyguard]]'' (2011), shot there.<ref>[http://www.bollywoodhungama.com/movies/company/type/view/id/38191 Filmistan] at [[Bollywood Hungama]].</ref> Yash Raj Films' television serial ''[[Khote Sikkey]]'' and dance reality show ''[[Jhalak Dikhhla Jaa]]'' are shot there.<ref name="hindu" />

In 2011, Jalan refuted media reports,<ref name=hindu/> which claimed that the studio was up for sale.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Bollywood rues Filmistan's closure|url=http://ticketplease.com/review/bollywood_movie/story/Bollywood_rues_Filmistan_s_closure.aspx|work=Ticket Please News Desk|first1=News|last1=Desk|access-date=15 February 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717054045/http://ticketplease.com/review/bollywood_movie/story/Bollywood_rues_Filmistan_s_closure.aspx|archive-date=17 July 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> The present studio manager of Filmistan studio is Jasraj Purohit.<ref name=hindu/> More recently, the song "Offo" from the film ''[[2 States (2014 film)|2 States]]'' (2014), was partly filmed at Filmistan Studio.<ref>{{cite web | title = Festival soiree |publisher= The Indian Express| url = http://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/screen/festival-soiree/|date= 16 April 2014| access-date = 2014-04-29 }}</ref>

==Filmography==

{| class="sortable wikitable collapsible"
|-
! Year !! Title !! Director !! Music by
|-
|rowspan="1"|1944
|''[[Chal Chal Re Naujawan]]''||[[Gyan Mukherjee]]||[[Master Ghulam Haider|Ghulam Haider]]
|-
|1945
|''Mazdoor''||Nitin Bose|| Hari Prasanna Daas
|-
|rowspan="2"|1946
|''Eight Days''|| ||[[S. D. Burman]]
|-
|''Shikari''|| ||[[S. D. Burman]]
|-
|1947
|''[[Do Bhai]]''||Munshi Dil||[[S. D. Burman]]
|-
|rowspan="2"|1948
|''[[Nadiya Ke Paar (1948 film)|Nadiya Ke Paar]]''||[[Kishore Sahu]]||[[C. Ramchandra]]
|-
|''[[Shaheed (1948 film)|Shaheed]]''||Ramesh Saigal||[[Master Ghulam Haider|Ghulam Haider]]
|-
|1949
|''[[Shabnam (1949 film)|Shabnam]]''||Bibhuti Mitra||[[S. D. Burman]]
|-
|1950
|''[[Sargam (1950 film)|Sargam]]''||P. L. Santoshi||[[C. Ramchandra]]
|-
|1951
|''Shabistan''ufx8unicydkmbv

L. ||Bibhuti Mitra||[[C. Ramchandra]], [[Madan Mohan (composer)|Madan Mohan]]
|-
|1952
|''[[Anand Math]]''||[[Hemen Gupta]] ||[[Hemant Kumar]]
|-
|1953
|''[[Anarkali (1953 film)|Anarkali]]''||Nandlal Jaswantlal ||[[C. Ramchandra]]
|-
|rowspan="4"|1954
|''[[Jagriti]]'' ([[Filmfare Award for Best Film#Winners and nominees|Filmfare Award for Best Film]])||[[Satyen Bose]]||[[Hemant Kumar]]
|-
|''[[Nagin (1954 film)|Nagin]]''||Nandlal Jaswantlal||
[[Hemant Kumar]] ([[Filmfare Best Music Director Award]]
|-
|''[[Nastik (1954 film)|Nastik]]''||[[I. S. Johar]]||[[C. Ramchandra]]
|-
| ''[[Shart (1954 film)|Shart]]'' ||[[I. S. Johar]]||[[Hemant Kumar]]
|-
|rowspan="3"|1955
|''[[Munimji]]''||[[Subodh Mukherjee]]||[[S. D. Burman]]
|-
|''[[Abe-Hayat (film)|Aab-e-Hayat]]''||Ramanlal Desai||[[Sardar Malik]]
|-
|''Bhagwat Mahima''||||[[Hemant Kumar]]
|-
|rowspan="3"|1956
|''Durgesh Nandini''||Bibhuti Mitra||[[Hemant Kumar]]
|-
|''Ham Sab Chor Hain''||[[I. S. Johar]]||[[O. P. Nayyar]]
|-
|''Heer''||Hameed Butt||[[Anil Biswas (composer)|Anil Biswas]]
|-
|rowspan="5"|1957
|[[Tumsa Nahin Dekha (1957 film)|''Tumsa Nahin Dekha'']]|| [[Nasir Hussain]]||[[O. P. Nayyar]]
|-
|''[[Paying Guest]]''||[[Subodh Mukherjee]]||[[S. D. Burman]]
|-
|''Champakali''||Nandlal Jaswantlal||[[Hemant Kumar]]
|-
|''Hulare'' (Punjabi film)||O.P. Dutta||S D Batish
|-
|''Muklawa'' (Punjabi film)||Rajinder Sharma||S D Batish
|-
|rowspan="2"|1958
|''Sanskar''||Chaturbhuj Doshi||[[Anil Biswas (composer)|Anil Biswas]]
|-
| Sun To Le Hasina||S.P.Bakshi||[[S. Mohinder]]
|-
|rowspan="2" |1959
|''Khoobsurat Dhokha''||Ram Prakash||[[S. Mohinder]]
|-
|''Maine Jeena Seekh Liya''||Satish Nigam||[[Roshan (music director)|Roshan]]
|-
|1960
|''Babar''||Hemen Gupta||[[Roshan (music director)|Roshan]]
|-
|1964
|''Dooj Ka Chand''||[[Nitin Bose]]||[[Roshan (music director)|Roshan]]
|-
|1965
|''Sassi Punnu'' (Punjabi film) ||Shanti Prakash Bakshi||B N Bali
|}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Bibliography==
* {{cite book|author1=Gulzar|author2=Govind Nihalani|author3=Saibal Chatterjee|title=Encyclopaedia of Hindi Cinema|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8y8vN9A14nkC&pg=PT617|year=2003|publisher=Popular Prakashan|isbn=978-81-7991-066-5|ref= Gu}}

==External links==
* {{imdb company|id = 0096009}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20130718092753/http://filmistan.org/ http://filmistanstudio.com/]

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